What are people buying?

[levied troop]

Have a couple of whiskys.........

Best advice on this forum ever

[Buff Orpington]

I was the only bidder on a couple of Corgi Centurions, they won't come to Ayton this year as they need work and we don't want to turn Kumbayah into a tank park.

[Count Belisarius]

I've been having a pretty shitty time of late so felt the need for some retail therapy... So have picked this lot up...

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And you'll all be unsurprised to see that the inevitable has happened...

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I shall be blogging about all the stuff later...

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[grizzlymc]

I think you got conned with the blue paint set. One's white and the other is a pinky fleshy colour.

[goat major]

Well he's also been conned because its billed as "the easy way to paint blue clothes" and since when has Andy ever done anything the easy way ?

nice haul though

[Count Belisarius]

I recently found an excellent little article on a paint studio site where they discussed how as a paint studio people assumed they had hundreds of pots of paint from many manufacturers whereas in reality they only had 30-40 and from these could mix any shade they needed and with assorted washes create many excellent effects. There was even this quote when they discussed 'blues':

"Vallejo Magic Blue, any generic blue will work with 90% of cases" - you of course need about another 20 blues to cover that other 10%...

Anyway, I looked at my rack upon rack of paint, the many other pots in drawers and on shelves, hundreds of them... and taking on board the ethos of this article I thought it was time for a new approach...a leaner more efficient painting system...then I thought...bollocks to that... and ordered some more blue paint...

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[goat major]

[Buff Orpington]

I was a bit worried about Andy's post until the end. I could picture Peeler's old tat table collapsing under the weight of all the surplus paint.

[Purple]

I use less than 30 paints.
But then I am a colourful paint by numbers kind of guy as opposed to a proper miniature artist.

Which reminds me, I really want to splash out on a big rack.

[FreddBloggs]

If I was painting fine art, they are right, a core palette is correct. As I am painting miniatures and sometimes want colours to match years apart, straight out of the pot is better for me.