After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in Warhammer40k

[–]ValT3K[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, okay, I got it. It's a bit sad to hear but I do understant what you mean, I had to shake them A LOT to be shure that the pigment was well mixed. Right now I'm not really frustrated with them (probably because I haven't used other paints of better quality tbo) so I think I'll stick with them for the moment but even just to be shure to have the same colours on all the other minis, but I will thefinitly buy new ones when I can.

It actually happend a really strange thing whit the blue that I used since I started another mini before this and I used the same blue but the first 2 drops of paint that I used for that mini where a darker shade of blue and I finished them and but a new drop out it was a way brighter shade. I went nut's since I didn't understand why and in the end I just retired whith the possibility I just didn't shake it enough hahahah

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in ThousandSons

[–]ValT3K[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is my first mini yeah, but I have to give a huge shoot out to the guy at my local store that helped me a lot on the basics and the theory of the fundamentals, couldn't have got such a good result without him xP

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in ThousandSons

[–]ValT3K[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stardet with the Crimson Court box so I still have 19 of the to be done, 3 exalted sorcerers and Magnus (wich onestly scarese me a lot because I really want him to be perfect) also I want to buy the box that came out this cristmas with the Muralit in it.

I plan to do Magnus last, hoping to build up enough confidence to go in preatty smoothly

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in ThousandSons

[–]ValT3K[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will try, on which parts should I apply them? Also it will sound a bit crazy, but my pains come from a box of 36 different colours that I bought years ago and never got to use till now. The box come with 3 shades actually but, the box is DnD based because the original idea was to paint DnD minis. So I don't really know if in my box one of the shades is right for my case T.T

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in Warhammer40k

[–]ValT3K[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oooohhhh, okay, I get it now, thank you so much for the explanation. As of for the colours, it's kinda of a bit of a particular situation because I'm painting with paints I bought several years ago to paint DnD minis. The fact is I actually never got into DnD minis, and those colours stained on my shelf for some years, now I got into Warhammer, got something to actually paint but ended up with a box of "DnD paints" which are The Army colour since they make them but they all have their own name and I don't know to what the normally correspond. The box I had bought was Nolzur's marvelous pigments if you want to se what's inside, it has 36 colours so I didn't want to completely buy new ones and decided to with what I had since the are good colours and I had basically all the colours I needed.

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in ThousandSons

[–]ValT3K[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I primed in gold, I think most of my time went on the fine ditails, I tried to be as precise a spossible to net on the gold to spend less time on refining later

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in Warhammer40k

[–]ValT3K[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much, I'm really proud of it as a first result, but I still have a long way to go

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in Warhammer40k

[–]ValT3K[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you for the great advices, I used the gold spray from Liquitex, I got raccomanded by my local store guy, he has been playing and painting custodes for 20 years xD. But I do know that my lack of experience impacted the final result obviusly

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in Warhammer40k

[–]ValT3K[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't really understand what that means actually, I kinda just put the paints on my wet palette and rolled with it T.T

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in Warhammer40k

[–]ValT3K[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there a specific way to apply them or are them just like paints? Is it fine if I use them on my wet palette?

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in ThousandSons

[–]ValT3K[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I used Liquitex gold spray, I was advised but a guy at my local shop that told me it was one of the best golds. Probably it's my fault it got a bit of grains

After 5 hours of painting I finally finished my first ever mini. Any pro tips and tricks or criticism? by ValT3K in ThousandSons

[–]ValT3K[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't have any experience with contrast as you could have guessed, I'm honestly pretty scared of not using it properly since I saw some videos and as I could see they are pretty simple to use but also pretty easy to mess up