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Author Topic: Priming Figures: A Story of Black and White starring The Red Queen and DA Denton  (Read 670 times)

Offline Dining Room Battles

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When I started "seriously" painting miniatures (Thank you Airfix!) at the tender age of 16, fortunately my father told me that paint sticks better to paint. I started out priming my figures with white. Even then, I did not buy fancy hobby primer; I would purchase the cheap generic flat white. Some where along the road, in the mid 90's I believe, I switched to black primer when I started building armies for the War of Spanish Succession. Since then, I prime my figures 99% of the time with black primer.


"District Attorney Denton," said The Red Queen," Why are we in the jungle again?"
"Because the boss has limited terrain for his tabletop."


https://toysoldiersanddiningroombattles.blogspot.com/2020/02/priming-figures-part-1-story-of-black.html

Offline Dining Room Battles

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The conclusion:

Dang, The Red Queen looks a bit sad and I still need to fix her forehead. Time to start adding highlights. For her skin I went back over with Basic Flesh Tone to make her paler but being careful not to cover up any of the shading from the dark flesh. You may notice that I did not do a perfect job on fixing the imperfection of the molding on the forehead, but at a gaming distance on the tabletop it looks just fine.


https://toysoldiersanddiningroombattles.blogspot.com/2020/02/priming-figures-part-2-story-of-black.html

Offline Cacique Caribe

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Fantastic work!

I prime mine with a medium gray primer, with a light misting of white primer from the top.

 

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