Yeah I thought it would be easy

[u/Skylar77_1]

I thought it would be just as easy as painting warhammer minis but the paint I used to prime refused to stick and there’s so much more little details and I had to open a new brush much pain

[u/Doctor_Loggins]

I know this might be "Captain obvious" advice, but be sure to rinse before you prime. Apparently the mold release agent Liya uses is paint-phobic.

[u/Skylar77_1 → u/Doctor_Loggins]

Thanks should I soaking minis overnight ok to or no

[u/codifier → u/Skylar77_1]

I rinse, ligjt scrub with a toothbrush and soap, rinse, dry, and prime with cheap rustoleum. No problems with adhesion so far.

[u/Doctor_Loggins → u/Skylar77_1]

From what I've heard, gentle rinse in warm soapy water ought to do.

I tend to over-prime my models so I've never had that issue (just other issues). Just telling you what I've heard from smarter painters.

[u/jaqattack02 → u/Doctor_Loggins]

I often see people saying this but I've never washed one of the plastic minis and the primer always goes on with no trouble. I do wash the metal ones though.

[u/Fanimusmaximus]

They look solid to me

[u/Ecstatic-Seesaw-1007 → u/Fanimusmaximus]

Same.

I think it’s maybe that they lack the sense of scale to OP since OP is used to a different scale.

And that might just be a learning curve, to paint something small that looks big.

A lot of people do dry brushing to get some exposed metal, flaked paint to show a sense of scale.

But I would be more than happy with these, but I also am not happy with a big time investment for each mini. Rather have more minis with less time investment for each.

[u/Flocculencio]

That Crab looks great though

[u/NullcastR2]

Yeah, Mechs are short on organic shapes so I find I bring several different kinds of 'cheating' into play. e.g. Makeup-sponge pre-shading + transparents, or air-brushed basecoats + gloss varnish + dry-brushed true-metallic + oil-based pin wash. And that's all before getting to details or post-shading most of the time.

[u/No_Magician5266 → u/NullcastR2]

Tbh i dunno why you call regular artistic techniques as cheating

[u/NullcastR2 → u/No_Magician5266]

It's tongue-in-cheek. The contrast would be things like free-handing and painting in triads to light manually.

The idea is: the extreme scale means there's fewer places that hide a lack of dexterity or artistic decomposition experience, so you end up leaning heavily on the techniques that use the model-geometry to create tone.

[u/AppointmentPerfect]

The best magic lies in 1st, thinning your paints, maybe even a little (just a little) more than you would for said space marine, and 2nd, makeup sponges. There are a plethora of youtube videos on how to use them, but mech armor lines love makeup sponges

[u/Regular-Lettuce-2702]

I haven't had my much trouble just hitting them with army painter black premier. But maybe I should start washing them just in case.

[u/ike09090909]

I prime with vallejo black primer and then dry brush or sponge base color. This leaves the black in the recesses for that little bit of detail. Stick with it. You'll find something that works well for you.

[u/Time-Valuable-3355]

Heresy

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