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Mojarn Piett
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Post subject: Painting White  Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:46 am |
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How do you manage to paint a smooth and even coat of white?
With a brush there always seems to be brush marks visible, no matter how many coats I paint.
With a spray can, there are no brush strokes but the surface looks like it had been repeatedly stabbed with a needle.
Should I add detergent to remove surface tension?
Use thinner paint?
Use a different kind of brush?
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TuffSkull
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Post subject: Painting White Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:09 am |
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The only way to get a really good clean coat is to use many layers of thin paint.
Make sure you let each layer dry before applying a second or else you will ruin the lower layer and end up with ridges.
Its tedious, but if you must paint white...
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MaksimSmelchak
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Post subject: Painting White Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 2:54 pm |
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White is one of the hardest colours to get to come out well especially if you're trying to paint it over a black primer.
The only way to do it in my experience is to keep layering white until it comes out smoothly.
Godd luck!
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Maksim-Smelchak.
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Painting White Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:30 pm |
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Legion 4
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Post subject: Painting White Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 6:07 am |
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I never base coat white, I spray black, gray, etc., and touch up afterwords with a watered down version of the sprayed color ...
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Markconz
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Post subject: Painting White Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 7:18 am |
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Using a light coloured base coat before you do the white helps.
E.G. I undercoat almost everything black...
Areas which I want to be white, I first paint with Space Wolves grey, bleached bone etc...
That way I only need to do two or three coats of white over the top and still get a smooth finish.
Leaving some of that base coat showing through in recesses provides shading to the white as well.
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Mojarn Piett
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Post subject: Painting White Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 7:30 am |
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Thanks for tips everybody!
Now I have some hope that the shoulder pads of my Black Templars may actually even improve someday... 
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Shadow Hunter
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Post subject: Painting White Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 8:48 am |
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If I have used a black undercoat (which I usually do as it seems better), then to paint white I always do a couple of layers of thin space wolves grey. It seems to go on very well, covering the black paint. I will then go straight to white, or maybe add bleached bone first.
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