Originally Posted by Lord Pyre (Post 2419791)

Blood for the Blood God is good fun. Lasts forever too since you generally don't use much at a time!

I've been painting on and off for probably close to 12 years or so. One of the best decisions I ever made was tossing my craft paints and picking up Vallejo. Decisions like this obviously vary person to person and depends on your goal as a painter though. If you want to speed paint everything and just have your table not be gray, go for whatever's cheapest. If you want to enhance your skills and make models look as good as you can, then get some dedicated hobby paints. Like I said my favorite is Vallejo, but it doesn't really matter what paint you get, as most of the bigger brands are great quality, they just might behave differently from each other, which is something that practice and time would easily help. I also have some P3 and Citadel paints (Citadel shades are fantastic, especially).

I use the Citadel black and white spray primers, those are leagues above any other spray primers I've tried. I also use Gesso as a brush on primer in winter occasionally, but I don't like how thick it ends up being.

(Oh, and that 50 count you gave me is just for this year, if that wasn't obvious. I couldn't even guess how many in my lifetime :) )

Originally Posted by Lord Pyre (Post 2419862)

Oh you can definitely make craft pains work just fine, lots of examples of people doing so. Just in my experience, it's much more time consuming and frustrating getting the same result with craft vs hobby paint. My skill and speed felt like it skyrocketed once I upgraded. Same with brushes, you can use crappy cheap ones, but a nicer one feels SO much easier to use.

Citadel pots suck. I had a few way back when. Honestly half the reason I started with Vallejo was the dropper bottles, those things are so much nicer and I don't understand why all paint lines don't use them.

Also I hate the look of contrast paints. I know they've help a ton of people get into painting, but it for ones feels likes a shortcut to me, probably builds bad habits, and looks splotchy and makes you lose all control. But again, if you just want to speed paint or make things looks table top worthy, that's great for you! But I think they're a hindrance to building your personal skill as a painter.

Just finished these guys this afternoon. No full repaints here, just quick touch ups for C3G characters. So they're not anything I'm terribly proud of. But they turned out well. :)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...214/image0.jpg

Originally Posted by Brunaks (Post 2421042)

Painted my Orchid spell weaver, 3 DnD skeletons and 3 DnD wolves bringing my total to 42 , the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Originally Posted by Brunaks (Post 2421045)

I have the DnD boardgames (they come with a ton of models) but I've never been in an actual DnD group. My girlfriend and I drove up to Coeur D' Alene (up in the panhandle) to her parents and I got her old airbrush and man, it makes getting through models a breeze. I've got probably 50 DnD models lined up and some Warhammer (Godsworn Hunt). Now that I have the airbrush I will probably be painting a lot more as it saves so much time priming and basecoating, I'm really excited for it!

Originally Posted by Brunaks (Post 2421051)

Oh wow so you just get to do the fun part for the next 6 months! I totally forgot that I have all of my Arena of the Planswalker pieces to do too which should be a lot of fun, they look pretty bad next to my Heroscape collection.