Help Painting With Enamels, was Re: Paints Suitable for DSII Minis

In message <1006794154.3c0275aa8e580@webmail.t-online.de>,
KH.Ranitzsch@t-onlin
> e.de writes:

Anybody know of a good enamel painting guide? I usually use
acryllics, but switched to enamels for the wider range of pre-mixed
military colors (OD, etc...) for a 1/100 Revell plastic Huey I painted
up. It was quite different, and somewhat frustrating. For example, the
Testor's enamel primer came off the model and mixed with the paint!?
Everything seemed to take four or five coats to cover, and if you stroked more
than once or twice, the paint below dissolved, exposing the plastic. Enamels
can obviously be used effectively, I

I've used enamels in a pinch, both for this kind of gaming and for RPG figs,
and I have a few issues with them: 1. As they are thicker, they tend to cover
over details. 2. They're less forgiving about how dry they must be before you
can paint over them. 3. It's hard to make a wash with them. You can't use
water, and if you use thinner, it tends to eat away at the coat underneath,
mixing your colors

together. 4. If they're not mixed well enough, flat colors... aren't.
5. Mixing them well will suffice for an arm-muscle workout.

Brian

"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which psychoanalysis is of
no use."

                                 - S. Freud

> From: Andy Cowell <andy@cowell.org>

> In message <200111261718.LAA02178@okura.cowell.org>, Andy Cowell writes:

Actually, I just found a Testor's Model Master line of acryllics, no