Modeling Equipment & Techniques
My conversion walk throughs. -> Sapphon / Huron / terminators / cult terminators / etc.
My paint stripping technique.
General painting *tips* I follow. -> Testors base / glue filler / patience / paint swatches
The following is a complete listing of everything I use to convert / paint my figs.
Paint
- White & Black Spray Primer
- Floquil Figure Flat [330022] (in its new incarnation it is called >> Floquil Classic Military Colors [330022]) (it works the absolute best >> it actually looks flat)
Ral Partha
- African [77-811]
- Cleric Brown [77-912]
- Leather [77-712]
- Warrior Flesh [77-911]
- Damsel Flesh [77-910]
- Ivory [77-715]
- Bone White [77-903]
- White [77-706]
- Forest Green [77-710]
- Troll Flesh Green [77-922]
- Olive [77-804]
- Slime [77-924]
- Yellow [77-716] (a bright yellow)
- Orange [77-717]
- Blood Red [77-814]
- Dragon Scale Red [77-915]
- Firekin Red [77-914]
- Dragon Tongue Purple [77-916]
- Dragon Scale Blue [77-919]
- Astral Blue [77-918]
- Paladin Blue [77-920]
- Dark Blue [77-721]
- Medium Gray [77-801]
- Dark Gray [77-802]
- Drow Flesh [77-907]
- Nightmare Black [77-906] (it's a slightly grayish black)
- Black [77-708]
- Bronze Metallic [77-703]
- Silver Metallic [77-702]
- Aged metal [77-901]
- Gold Metallic [77-701]
- Copper Metallic [77-722]
- Steel [77-704]
Polly S / Polly Scale
- Dragon Black [501419] ~Fantasy~ (the blackest black I have ever found)
- Nato Tri Black [505350]
- Night Black [505214]
- Orn. Yell. [505220] (a darker orangish yellow)
Citadel
- Bronzed Flesh [47310]
- Dwarf Flesh [47309]
- Elf Flesh [47311]
- Flesh Wash [47364]
- Blazing Orange [47?95]
- Firey Orange [83308]
- Red Gore [47293]
- Red Ink [47352]
- Dark Angels Green [47326]
- Scorpion Green [83386]
- Ultramarines Blue [47321]
- Midnight Blue [47318]
- Smelly Primer [47366]
- Festering Blue [83368]
- Deadly Nightshade [83361]
- Regal Blue [83311]
- Nauseating Blue [83362]
- Liche Purple [83326]
- Tentacle Pink [83363]
- Black Wash [83357]
- Brown Wash [83340]
- Turquoise Glaze [83375]
- Purple Wash [83356]
- Green Glaze [83373]
Home Brew Mixes
- Royale Purple - 3:2 mix of Blood Red & Liche Purple
- Genestealer Blue - 4:2:1 mix of Paladin Blue, Nauseating Blue & Festering Blue
- Light Purple - 2:1 mix of Dragon Tongue Purple & Tentacle Pink
- Light Orange - 4:1 mix of White & Orange
And just for clarification: when I talk about doing a "bone treatment" I do the following:
- apply one coat of Cleric Brown
- apply a partial coat of Tan
- apply a partial coat of slightly watered down Ivory (I get paint on the brush, dip it in the water then roll it out a little on a paper towel)
Other Stuff
- a good table top flexible arm halogen spot lamp
- Some kind of Super Glue / Zappa Gap
- Paper Clips
- Pin Vise
- Drill Bits (a little bigger than the paper clips)
- Vise Grips
- Needle Nose Pliars
- Pliars
- Wire Cutter
- Small Screw Driver
- Modelling Putty
- X-acto knife
- extra blades
- X-acto saw blade
- small modelling files (got mine at a model train shop)
- a couple of lunch trays from a cafeteria (so you can move all this stuff around w/o having to pack everything away)
- some sand paper
- some spring loaded clothes pins
- Masking tape
- a bunch of old Testors Model Master paint bottles
- Elmer's Glue
- some small plastic cups (to mix paint)
- small ceramic dish (for water)
- a bucket load of brushes
- a tooth brush
- an old butter tub
- Pine sol
- a dremel (only if you want to do a lot of conversion work) I am very happy with my 3955 Variable Speed MultiPro kit. You can usually find one on eBay for about $60-$75.
- If you do a lot of vehicles, you need an airbrush (I don't have one myself, but I am envious of those who do)
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