In general, learning how your paints behave depending on consistency is key to becoming a better painting. If you want to move into wet blending, getting to learn how the consistency of your paint effects how it behaves is a must.Trust me, it is just that hard to achieve a good effect otherwise. Thin paints is a must for good highlights.If the paint has a good consistency, you can load more in the brush and avoid having to dip your brush in paint all the time. If you use slightly dry paint, you also have to load up the brush more often.Thinner paint will go on quicker and will look better Do you ever find that you sort of of have to forcibly drag the paint around the different areas? Paint might be too thick and it makes covering all the areas a chore. Not only can you achieve great things with just a thin basecoat and a wash (look at the purple above), but painting with a good consistency of paint will also make it go quicker overall. If you want to paint your models faster, I actually think thin paints are a must.Learning and using paints of different thickness can help you in various different areas of painting: I hope the example above shows how just slightly adjusting your paint thickness in the basecoat stage can work wonders for the overall effect. What can thinner paint (and overall the right consistency) do for you The difference is that the very black and flat version had quite a thick undercoat and the other version had a very light basecoat applied. Both have been painted the exact same way: primed white(ish), basecoat of Naggaroth Night and wash of Druchii Violet. In the worst case, you have to strip it and do the work all over again.īelow you can see two different versions of purple robes. Overall, too thick or just completely undiluted paint can ruin your miniature pretty bad. If you apply one thick coat, it will look ugly and obscure details. Depending on your undercoat/primer it might require several coats of paint before the coverage is good enough and the colour has the colour you intended. It can not only cover and obscure the details you wanted to keep, but also lead to cracks once it is dried. If you apply a very thick paint, cracks in the paint can also happenīecause of that, you have to thin your paint (most of the time).If you use thick paint in the highlighting stage, you will have a much harder time getting the paints to blend together (it looks chalky or you notice big jumps from colour to colour).This can leave an uneven amount of paints and the mini and you could damage your brush in the process. Thick paint is much harder to get into the brush.Acrylic paint (the most normal type of miniature paint) can lead to a shiny, glossy look when applied undiluted.All in all fewer details and a very “flat” look. This, in turn, will make the shade/wash less useful (fewer cracks and folds to go into). A thickly applied basecoat can obscure the details.Thick basecoat can cause the following problems: But let us first start with the problems. There are several reasons why you should thin your paint down before using them. This article has also been made into a video, that you can watch on my youtube channel.ĩ Other resources regarding thining your paint
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This should give beginners a good basic understanding of the concept and how to do it. In the following, I collected all the information I learned about thinning paints – whether it was the hard, self-experienced way or tips from other people. I quickly understood that it was important to thin my paints before applying them on the miniature, but I was not too sure about all the details. When I started painting, people often told me things like “thin your paints to the consistency of milk” and variations on that. How thin is thin enough? What does it really mean when people say the “paint is too thick?” And why the heck does it pool on the mini now that I have thinned it down! I know it was definitely mine! “thin your paint” is also one of the most commonly suggested tips when people ask for feedback.īut this answer can leave you with a bunch of questions: If you look back at some of your first painted models, I bet that one of the biggest mistakes you made was thick paint.
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