Posted by Beano Boy on 05 Nov 2015, 16:34
All my Napoleonics are painted in Enamel Paints.
So I found this question on priming figures of interest. Painting onto black undercoated figures resulted in double vision for me. So to cut down on eye strain I resorted to painting white paint first by mixing White S Matt,and White Matt Enamel paints together. Both new tins were tipped into a pot and mixed,and then poured back into the tins ,it only took a couple of minutes to do the job.This gave me a far superior paint that I could use on my Napoleonic figures as both a primmer ,and for other work too. It dried hard and was not chalky at all ,but skinned the models well giving them a good start to the painting process. This type of mixing was such a success, that I now combine all my Matt and S Matt paints together. People in the shop remarked that they had done similar but saw no marked difference. Believe me I could,and model figures painted 15 years ago using this painting system having been handled many times have over have kept all the paint on them,and without the use of varnish.
For the first time this year I used Acrylic Paints and both Primmer Spays and paint pealed off the figures even before I had time to finish painting them. They were all cleaned before painting.
So my collection of acrylic paints I now use to make up Colour Washes for use on my plaster of Paris Castings. Which is a good use made of them,rather than trashing them. BB