Re: 54mm Harlequin Solitaire - From Sketch to Miniature

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Dec 02, 2008; 11:00am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/54mm-Harlequin-Solitaire-From-Sketch-to-Miniature-tp1585135p1603244.html

interesting technique with the undercoat with the undercoat, dose it work well? are there any drawbacks to it?
-it strikes me as looking kinda speckle-y which I imagine would be quite hard to paint over with smoothly shaded colours without using quite a few coats (which in turn would cause you to lose the initial contrast) – looks like this technique is best suited to large smooth miniatures. (I guess dry brushing white over black would work for smaller more finely detailed miniatures though)

just some random thoughts - personally I undercoat in black and build up the colour though several stages allowing a little or each colour to show through in the layer above giving me as much or as little contrast as I need.