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Jeremy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:30 pm Have a couple of whiskys.........

Best advice on this forum ever

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.

I've been having a pretty shitty time of late so felt the need for some retail therapy... So have picked this lot up...
And you'll all be unsurprised to see that the inevitable has happened...
I shall be blogging about all the stuff later...

A

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

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

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...

A

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.

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.

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.