Games workshop acrylics for figures

GW paints are made by Vellejo, which are the best acrylics on the market, so silly name or no, they're great paints. I have a collection that is a mix of Vellejo and GW paints. They're designed for and intended for use by figure modelers painting with a paint brush. I do find that GW paints get a kind of fish eye effect sometimes though and require a second coat. Especially on white metal figures. I haven't experienced that with Vellejo, so the formulas may be a little different, but just a little.

I use Games Workshop acrylics as the default choice for figures. Despite their silly names, they have matches for nearly all colours you need for eras from Napoleonics onwards. they have grea colour density, are good for making washes, and dry-brush well. Adding a couple of drops of flow enhancer slows drying times, and helps eliminate brush marks.

The one thing I've found they don't do is airbrush, beng far too thick and, even when thinned and with flow enhancer added, dry to quickly in the brush and before hitting the surface of the model. Others say that they've had some success airbrushing them, though, so I might junst not have delevloped the right technique yet. The figures in these pictures were painted with GW acrylics:

 

Cheers,

Chris. 

 

I use a ton of wargame paints on all my figs, inluding some wargame figs.

Frankly Im not at all happy with the forumula, the pots are open air and develop a skin on them very quickly which has to be consantly removed.

I use Reaper Master series and Pro series paints, in both squeeze dropper bottles (like Vallejo but less expensive) and in regular screw top bottles. Coverage is incredible, the white density is very high.

I thin with a drop of water and I also use Liquin Slo-Dri as an extending agent.

There are excellent tutorials for painting (and this will apply to any figure, male female or succubi!)

here: http://www.reapermini.com/TheCraft

I have these printed out for reference. They will take you from beginning cleanup to final paint and application of thin washes, similar to the Vallejo style with some minor diferences. Thin, controlled layers are the key, not just a one coat job. Most of my figures now have at least 10 properly thinned coats of skin applied and as many color coats for the clothing and such.

You will find Let it Flow and Bette Davis Eyes most helpful!!!!!!  Remember these figures are painted in mainly 28MM roughly half the size of a typical military 1/35 figure, so you can expand from there....

Im still mastering my layers but Im definitely improving!

David