by aflorin
Jimzik wrote:
Prime them black, dry brush on white (or off-white), do the rest of the detail and then Quick Shade (it was WORTH the $30!). I hate using the min-wax because it takes sooooo long to dry and then leaves the fig shiny (takes a few coats of dull coat to reduce that) but it was very inexpensive.
Well, the quick shade also leaves it super glossy AND takes 24 hours before you can dull coat it. I really wonder if it's the same as the min-wax, just re-branded. From what your describing, I'm not seeing any advantage to the quick shade. No sense in worrying about it now I guess.
I also had to do quite a bit of experimentation on matte finishes before I settled on something I liked. I'm using Vallejo's brush on matte finish because I did not like the spray matte at all. It takes a bit longer but I'm able to only matte the areas I want, leaving armor and swords glossy. I would have bought testor's brush-on dullcote but I couldn't find it and didn't really want to deal with thinning it anyway (which from what I understand you have to do). I'm finding I can brush the Vallejo straight out of the bottle as long as the brush is very lightly loaded.
Question, why prime black then dry-brush white? I've been priming white specifically to reduce the darkening of the quick shade a bit. Though to be honest I've liked what it has done with the colors so far. Makes them a bit richer (other than large white areas, which turn a bit too brown). From the little bit of bone areas I've painted already, white-primer, plus bone-white then quickshade is turning out really nice. I was gonna do the same thing for the undead. What do you think?