Miniatures

A few years back I bought some miniatures to use with the mondo mat I found on sale at The Game Preserve ($15 for a $120 mat!).

I finally painted my first one last night.

From miniatures

From miniatures

It was lots of fun. Quick over-view of how I did it:

1. Sprayed with fast-dry sand-able gray auto-primer (auto-zone $2.50)
2. Painted with acrylic paint and the smallest brush I had (I had some left over acrylic from a beginning painting class I took in college. You can use the same acrylic as you use on canvas).

For the sword and chain mail I bought some metallic paint from The Game Preserve. Don’t buy your primer there though, they wanted to charge me $17 for primer (which is why I just went to autozone instead)

Last thing I need to do is spray it with some varnish to keep the paint from getting smudged/ruined from touching it.

For my first time, I don’t think I did half bad. The next one will be much better though…

Several lessons learned:

1. Get a very very small brush. (mine was way too big and it shows)
2. Make sure the model is thoroughly coated with primer (do one coat standing and two coats with it laying down. I didn’t get the undersides of the details very well, and so the paint didn’t stick)
3. Have good lighting.

This took me about an hour.