gaming miniatures

[tielan]

A couple of years ago, I supported a gaming minatures start-up: Toughest Girls of the Galaxy and, as a result, got rewarded with couple of dozen resin miniatures which need prepping and painting.

Like I need another hobby!

Any suggestions for sites giving instructions on how to go about it?

I have this youtube video on how to assemble the models, but I guess I'm also looking at tips, tricks, advice, your own thoughts on how to paint miniatures...

I have another set of miniatures that are due to arrive in the next week or so, and I haven't even prepped the first set. I don't know where I'm going to have the space to do this, because outside is gardening and the dining room is full of B1's study stuff, and the study is either my writing desk or quilting stuff...

Eh. I'll work it out. I'm looking for tips and how-tos right now. Or your thoughts on miniatures and painting them?

Comments

[pensnest]

My son got into Warhammer stuff several years ago, and I got the task of painting his figures for him. So investigating Warhammer sites might be helpful.

You say resin miniatures, which may require different treatment (I have no idea what the Warhammer ones were made of), but with the ones I did, the first advice was to spray on a base coat to cover the entire figure, and I'm pretty sure I used black for this. Do it where there is plenty of ventilation, eg outside! Then leave them overnight. There was a nice set of modelling paints and a very fine brush involved. And spray varnish for when they are well and truly done, which again, lots of ventilation.

It was certainly possible to get a lot of detail going. I really liked the metallic paints—I think there was silver, gold and a dark grey metal of some kind which was very good for chains and such. Quite often it was possible to skim the brush very lightly across detailed stuff (chains!) so that the moulding of the models allowed the paint on the top, with the undercoated black in the highlights to make things obvious.

As my son's set was mostly chaps in uniform and all alike, it was efficient to do one colour at a time—skin, red armour, metal etc. You may have more fun with yours since they'll perhaps be rather more varied.

For more advice, a Games Workshop store would probably be very useful. Also a good place to get the paints, if you need them.

[tielan]

I have a box of paints, but at this point I'm trying to find suggestions for putting it all together and tips on how to paint them.

Thanks for sharing your experience - it's always good to know how other people find it doing this kind of art...

links

[tielan]

videos of preparing TGG resin miniatures

a website giving advice

part 1 preparing the figures