a couple of ideas for paints:
standard paints are acrylics, right? i don't know how much they cost these
days (i'm still using a set of evil empire colours i bought 5 years
ago),
but you can also get acrylics intended for artists (they're like
easier-to-use oil paints). 'The Works' (in Oxford, anyway) is selling
sets
of acrylics quite cheap - 4 ukp for 12, 6 ukp for 18, with about 5 (?)
ml of each colour. you'd probably have to water them down a bit for painting
minis. anyway, there's an idea.
Boots has a line of cosmetics etc called '17'; one of the things in it is a
nail varnish for clubbing, which as far as i can tell is clear but
fluorescent - it glows white under UV. like most nail varnishes, it's
suspended in some volatile organic solvent (propanone or propan-2-ol,
possibly), which might make it a pain to use on painted or glued figs, but it
seems like an easy way of adding fluorescence (i seem to recall people
wondering about this sort of thing). anyway, 3.5 ukp for a standard size
bottle. they also have some plain colours which change in sunlight, but
they're pinky and orangey, and thus of little military value:).
anyway, an object lesson in the benefits of being dragged round shopping by
your girlfriend:).
tom
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I've never used anything but artists acrylics. Watered down, they still cover
better than most bottle born varieties.
> Tom Anderson wrote:
> a couple of ideas for paints:
To add insult to injury: the Evil Empire nowadays use Winsor & Newton acrylic
colours. They just dilute them with water and bottle them in 12 ml bottles and
sell the stuff for about the same price as 60 ml (undiluted) Winsor & Newton.
Hmm, wonder how they make so much money...
You have to water it down a little, which can be a little tricky before you
get the hang of it. Too much water and it won't cover, too little and it will
cover details. Don't worry, though, you've got lots of paint to practice with
:-)
Do I have to tell you that I only use artists acrylics these days? The GW guys
have got one thing right, though, W & N is good! And 60 ml will last a looong
time, even if you use it for terrain.
Oh. And try to get some mixing bottles. I think the Armoury has some (in the
US, but most other game stores, at least here in sweden, can buy their stuff)
really good ones, and you won't ever have to buy another bottle of Nauseating
Blue, Titillating Pink or Bubonic Brown again, ever!
> Boots has a line of cosmetics etc called '17'; one of the things in it
Unless you want to clean all paint of them (and melt any plastic parts), which
probably is what it would do. Organic solvents is the thing to use to clean
your old minis.
Pink, Orange and fluoro might be the perfect colours for some worlds.
Buck
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Henrix wrote:
> Tom Anderson wrote:
cool. i'll give up on painting that damned flower and start doing my escort
cruisers.
> > Boots has a line of cosmetics etc called '17'; one of the things in
curses. might it be possible to varnish the painted mini first? of course,
this depends on having some sort of varnish which doesn't dissolve in organic
solvents, which seems unlikely. oh well.
tom
ps aha! - what if you could transfer the fluorophore from the organic
solvent to an aqueous solvent? you could mix the nail varnish with water and
then warm it: the volatile organic would be driven off, leaving the
fluorophore in aqueous solution... WAHAHAHAHA!
pps okay, so it can't be done.
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Geoffery R wrote:
> Pink, Orange and fluoro might be the perfect colours for some worlds.
IIRC, the colours are:
clear -> pink (with glitter, sadly)
pink -> orange
white -> bluish
blue -> dark blue (or vice versa, i forget)
the blue -> dark blue might be useful for alien spacecraft of some
variety, maybe. of course, all these are based on the accursed organic
solvent.
tom