Reply To: The problem with painting tutorials

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Interesting thread.   I haven’t actually painted in several years, but a few days ago sat down with my girlfriend to teach her.   She’s new to miniatures, but not, it turns out, to painting, so I was very surprised by how good the mini looked by the end of it.

So brush control wasn’t a problem, technique wasn’t too much of a problem as I was able to just talk her through what to do, but colour choice was an issue.

I was using a random mixture of old paint pots that hadn’t dried out, on a Mantic Walking Dead Zombie as I thought that would be pretty forgiving.   When it came to painting the guts hanging out of the stomach my girlfriend was very sceptical when I told her to mix a little deep blue in with the terracotta brown to get a purple and to use this as a basecoat / shade.

When she later painted over the raised areads in red, and after a brown wash, she was amazed at how it looked.   I hadn’t known exactly what to expect, but I have enough experience and confidence to just try it and trust that it would turn out okay.

So I guess that’s a long way of saying that I agree with @yogiebear that one or more tutorials on colour (which is related to light) would be very helpful for new starters indeed.