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A little help with paints please.

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  • Member since
    November 2005
A little help with paints please.
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 2, 2003 4:58 PM
I'm looking for some help in finding and learn the difference in all these paints.

This originally came up in the Figures and Misc. forum. Maybe some others in this forum can help me.

Here's a cut and past form a post I just made over in Figures and Misc.



Well after what you?ve said and after reading the, "how to make faded panel lines" in the Armor forum I took the dive.

I bout a tub of 1.25 Oz. tube of Winsor and Newton Artists' Oil Colour in Burnt Sienna and a .27 Oz. Winsor and Newton Cotman Water Colour Cadmium Yellow. I?m not sure if they are "acrylics" I?m not sure what that word encompasses or entails.

The Oil Colour works GREAT. I love it. I?m probably going to buy a tub of some shade of tan and go crazy on my M1. Its expensive though. $9 for 1.27 oz. OUCH!

However, the Water Color doesn't work. It beads up on the plastic just like water wood (go figure). I can work it in but it takes WAY to much work and I have VERY little control over the fading process.

I really have no idea what I'm buying. I wish I had expert modeling friends local I could work with. Or even canvas artists that can tell me the difference between all of them so I can make my own decision. When I ask the clerks they have no idea.

I might jump over to the Aormur forum and post there too.

I?m not sure if I would actually want to do the camouflage in oil colors. But the face definitely!

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: New Zealand
Posted by nzgunnie on Friday, May 2, 2003 8:28 PM
I would stick to the oil colours for your weathering washes. The Cotman water colours are desigend to be used on an absorbent surface, like heavy paper used for water colour painting. They are not acrylic but simply pigment bound in a water soluble binder. You will find that although the Winsor and Newton Artist Oils are expensive, a tube will last for many years, I have had tubes for 10 years and they are still almost full. If you want to save money, you can buy their 'Winton' brand of oils. These are the Student grade, but are still very good quality, certainly far higher quality than are needed for washes on an armour model. Infact, I would say using the 'Artists Oil' range for washes is a waste of money. They are more expensive than the 'Winton' range because the pigments used are the very expensive ones, and the binding medium is designed to make the paints last for many years when applied in traditional oil paintings. I have found the 'Winton' Range is quite good enough for most figure painting as well.
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, May 3, 2003 4:46 PM
I repsonded to your post in the figures forum.

Thank you.
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