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What Paint do you use? Do you use modeling or plastic paints or acrylics?
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Usaly i use citadel but for the space marine i painted today i used a ultramarine blue acrylic, a dark vermillion modeling paint, some stormguard gold citadel paint, leadbelcher citadel paint, black acrylic paint, white acrylic paint, brown model wash, and a base of kantor blue citadel paint.
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I could tell that you used Acrylic, since it has kind of a grainy texture. Which isnāt necessarily bad, but sometimes they can be harder to work with on smooth resin or plastic models. I tried painting on a dollar tree figure one time, and it looked a little rough, but then again, I was new to painting at the time.
Do you use primer on the model before you started painting? I donāt know how well resin works, but usually for my plastic models, I apply a thin layer of primer on the plastic so it can hold the paint on better. I do believe the Citadel paints work pretty well without, but I think they are mostly made for Resin figures though.
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Yes, i do use primer on my models, it makes them look nicer and helps paint stick more
Citadel paints are able to stick without primer but many still prime for a base coat or to make them look nicer, i love citadel paints but the only thing i dont enjoy about them is how they arenāt very vibrant
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Alright, I wasnāt sure if you had to for Resin models.
I do own only a single Space marine that my friend let me borrow, so I can make lego replicas. I never have painted on resin before and have been too poor to afford a decent army.
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I do know that 40k no longer uses resin printing for their models and instead use injection molding
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I think there are some neon and lighter colors of them. Iāve seen many people use kind of a white wash or maybe like a clear coat over top of the paint to not only protect the paint, but also to make it more shiny.
Many of the lighter colors Iāve seen were used to paint glowing effects of weapons, lights, or even burn or scorch marks as well.
Iāve never used Citadel since they were kind of expensive online or at least from the website I saw them on, so I use Testors, which is lower grade, but itās mostly for model cars and such.
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I didnāt even know that. I know itās much cheaper to use injection molding and I actually thought about saving or investing into an injection mold at some point so mass produce my own minis. All you need to make initially is the mold and thatās about it.
I wanted to get into 40k since my friend was really into it, but I could never afford half of the stuff online. Like one of the biggest titans, you can get is like over $1000, but then again, I currently have a transformer figure thatās worth that now, but I never paid anywhere near that before.
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I know 40k is cheaper in the uk cause thats where the models are produced and i recemend you reach out to a discord user named malice because he resin prints 40k minis and sells them for a lower cost
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However i will mostly stop collecting 40k later this year and will begin to collect and play a upcoming table top wargame called trench crusade, trench crusade will release later this year and will hopefully be much cheaper than 40k,
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