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Author Topic: Tutorial: "Polishing" A Miniature For Painting  (Read 1622 times)

Offline ancientsociety

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Tutorial: "Polishing" A Miniature For Painting
« on: July 08, 2011, 06:01:42 PM »
A little tutorial on achieving a smooth, even surface on your miniatures to improve painting.

http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2011/06/tutorial-polishing-metal-models-for.html

As always, comments welcome! Enjoy.   ;)

Offline 6milPhil

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Re: Tutorial: "Polishing" A Miniature For Painting
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2011, 09:30:03 PM »
Interesting idea. I must admit that often with greenstuff I go the other way and rough the surface up.

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Re: Tutorial: "Polishing" A Miniature For Painting
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2011, 05:06:26 PM »
After cleaning up the figure I use a green scouring pad to go over the figure to take out any remaining mis-matches and smooth out rough areas.
Wargamers do it on a table.
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