Reply To: Are older miniatures better ?

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Which ones are easier to paint depends on your definition of ‘easy’ and ‘paint’.

If you’re 6 years old – or a complete Newbie who has never painted anything – slapping thick, grainy coats of FolkArt arcylics on an older mini will obscure less detail than it will on the latest laserprinted plasto-resin.

However, if you know what you’re doing to some degree, you can pretty much pour ‘contrast paints’ over a new model and it will practically shade and highlight itself.

A proper metal figure from the 70s or 80s has to be PAINTED, precisely because there’s less detail. Those buttons do not stand out in razor sharp relief- because they’re not there. Until YOU put them there….