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angus147258

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Seriouly does no one else ever use oils on there minis? I have been on my 54 (more like 60) mm knight. It\'s amazing!

Jake
 
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Wolf Fang

Member
i tried some oils on some old stealers... (ran out of other paint) didnt care for it much.... altho i must admit could get a gaming standard fast... once i put the black on it auto highlighted itselfe lol
 
airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
Lots of the historical guys use oils.

The rest of us use acrylics so we can paint more than one color in an evening.
 
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Medved

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i would love to figure out how oils are used on minis.

maybe iam thinking too much about the way i use acrylics.....but i honestly can\'t understand how it translates onto such a finely detailed mini.???

maybe somebody will soon put up a good tutorial on it
 
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Klute

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Im pretty sure you can get hold of something that speeds up drying time. Avicenna is messing with oils so he might chirp up.
 
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Balder

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I used oils some time ago, because I had a lot of them, and the only problem is drying time... Now I bought a lot of acrylics, and I like to paint with them... A lot faster drying time, and what is the most important it is not poisonous :)
Ok, wet blending is easier with oils, of course...
 
Shawn R. L.

Shawn R. L.

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Originally posted by Medved
i would love to figure out how oils are used on minis.

maybe iam thinking too much about the way i use acrylics.....but i honestly can\'t understand how it translates onto such a finely detailed mini.???

maybe somebody will soon put up a good tutorial on it
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I\'ve used oils. They are quite litterally like painting with butter. VERY viscous and blendable. I used a type called alkyds (I believe they were Windsor Newton).

They are effectively workable for about 1 hour and completely dry in a day. One of the drawbacks is that they could tend to be a bit transparent so you really need to think ahead with priming and undrecoating. Also, oils can be a bit pricey.

You can buy regular oil paints and get the alkyd seperate to accelerate the drying time.
 
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SebastianRushworth

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Originally posted by Medved
i would love to figure out how oils are used on minis.

maybe iam thinking too much about the way i use acrylics.....but i honestly can\'t understand how it translates onto such a finely detailed mini.???

maybe somebody will soon put up a good tutorial on it
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With oils you can\'t layer like you do with acrylics, and you can\'t water the paints down, but I think wetblending is much easier, because of how long the paint takes to dry.
 
Orb

Orb

procrastinator
I used Oils for years. Ideally you still need to undercoat with acrylics, as they soak up some of the oil in the paint and speed up the drying time.

There are probably as many different ways of using oils as there are of using acrylics., and the effects can be amazing. Yes, loads of historical guys use them, but they have often been overtaken by acrylics.......
 
green stuff

green stuff

Active member
@Stuart : Check out Yannick Degiovani\'s gallery :

http://www.coolminiornot.com/browse.php?submitter=Yandegio

He only uses oils. He\'s also written an article here (translated by Arthur) :

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/331
 
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