I love this hobby, from painting to gaming and all the other aspects and I must admit I did find it a bit violating not trying the hardest I could, when painting the minis. ![]() It sounds messy, because it is, and if you want to dip indoors, I would recommend you to brush the quickshade on the mini, which also gives you more control and less waste Practice did make perfect though, and soon I was dipping like a pro. I still can't find his head, which he is pretty upset about. Sounds simple enough, but I managed to break a base and throw a poor ork across my yard, when dipping the first time. The process of dipping is pretty simple, but require a bit of practice to get perfect.Īrmy Painter recommends that you dip the mini, then throw of the excess quickshade. You simply paint the mini in the base colours, dip, apply a matt coat of varnish, base the figure and call it a day. The point of dipping is speed, and the way to achieve that is to skip a lot of the steps, we normally associate with painting. The can should hold enough content to dip about 200 miniatures, give or take.Īs I said there are 3 different tones of Quickshade and I used the strong tone for my review, which Army Painter claims is the most popular of their “dips”.Įach can cost about 25 euro or your regional variant. Quickshade comes in three shades(Soft, Strong and Dark) and is not water soluble, but can be thinned with turpentine. The Army Painter quickshade focusses on being easy to use and giving great results with minimal effort and time.įor the most part it even succeeds in doing just that. The technique is extremely simple, you just paint the base colours on the model, Army Painter has a wide assortment of coloured primers to help you with that, and then you dip the model in quickshade, throw off any excess and leave the mini to dry and spray some matt varnish over it, to dull it down.Īll in all, an extremely simple and fast technique. ![]() The process is called dipping and is nothing new for some of the veterans out there, who have been dipping minis since the dawn of times(or so I have been told). This part will focus on the quickshade made for dipping your minis and get an army on the table fast and with minimum amount of work.
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