Things I wish my mother had told me when I started painting soldiers

[paulr]

7.Never use Grey for highlighting Black Paint,mix it with Blue,Turquoise or Green,anything but Grey...

Why?

[Subedai]

I cannot understand the allure of painting flesh first, is it Freudian or what? Brings a figure to life? My ar*e it does. Do a good face and the chances of getting paint on it afterwards increase by a Pratchettian(?) amount. By that I mean that a million to one chance will usually happen every nine times out of ten.
From 10mm upwards I try to work on the largest areas first on my figures and then smaller bits in descending order. Painting 101 as far as I am concerned.

White undercoat
All White Metal
Pledge black wash
Jackets/Tunics etc
Trousers
Shield front if carried
Belts/webbing etc
Flesh
Weapon woodwork
Shoes or boots
Yellow Metal
Pledge dark brown wash
Any and all highlighting
Base colour
Enamel matt varnish.

It's in the net.

[marie]

I spray paint all black matt,
then, dry brush metallics
main uniform and cuffs
belts,straps
weapons
face
hair
hats
final detail on say tricorn
final detail on riffles
black line belts
then varnish
I only tend to dry brush 10mm figs...