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Re: The minis will not be a sea of unpainted gray
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Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper
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Originally Posted by meanpie
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Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper
Skyknight swears that speedpaint is a thing and that it works well and quickly. That’s my plan.
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Can someone explain this speedpaint thing? I've seen a few posts about it.
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It’s a kind of paint that does some highlighting and some shading without you having to do anything to it. I have no idea how it works. Appears to be magic.
Anyway. According to these YouTube videos it appears to take about 10 minutes a figure. You end up with a paint job that is better than original Scape, which didn’t have those features at all. Not good enough to win you a mini painting contest, but nice looking.
I’ve never done it but I’ve watched a few videos. Enough to believe that it’s a real thing and does what people say it does.
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You need to base the entire mini (spray paint - normally black) then highlight from the top with white spray paint. This allows for dark recesses but highlighted areas when you use contrast (or speedpaints) which is a very thin style of paint to go over the figure once and that's you done.
Each medium figure should take about 10 minutes and will look pretty good.
I just tried it out on a couple of skeleton squads (from heroquest) to check it out...and it works. Not up to what I like but it's not bad.
 Just when you thought it was all right, someone made it alright.
Good trades with - Porkins / xraine69 / mac122 (x2) / frylock / Ztimster (x2) and probably others I forgotten to mention...sorry.
Last edited by AMIS; October 7th, 2022 at 09:48 PM.
Reason: It's okay...not great but okay.
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