Has anyone tried dipping pre-painted plastic minis in the Army Painter's Quick Shade? How does it come out?
Has anyone tried dipping pre-painted plastic minis in the Army Painter's Quick Shade? How does it come out?
Really well.
For the last three weeks, I've been testing the MinWax PolyShade and Army Painter Quick Shade on cheap, extra minis, learning how the dip method works and getting comfortable with it. Army Painter works better for me as it's a bit thinner and slopping on with a paint brush works better than dipping. This weekend I started doing some keeper minis - the Orc Brute and some Heroclix and WoW minis.
The Brute came out great with a slightly darker skin color and good shading in all crevices of a sculpt I now like a lot more. I'm going to Quick Shade all my Pathfinder Orcs and probably pick up some more from the singles market. I tried taking a picture, but can't get the light right to show the contrast in shading.
I also plan to do a lot of Mage Knight, Horrorclix, Heroclix, and WoW minis as these lines had a number of nice sculpts with plain paint jobs. The pieces I did this weekend, like Heroclix Boon which will make a good monk, transformed from bland paint jobs to solid minis that look much better on the table.
I don't think I will do any other Pathfinder minis. None of them really need it like the orcs do. I also don't think I'll do any of the Arkham Horror monsters I got this week.
Nice, thanks. I was hoping this would be the case. I was just afraid it might ruin my plastic mini or end up wasting the nice, but expensive quick shade. I know of some plastic minis I think this will work nice on too.
Hey guys, I'm new to all this and was curious about the product you're using and its effects. Are you simply dipping miniatures into a wash product to add depth to the recesses of the mold? How does this work?
I use the Army Painter http://www.thearmypainter.com/ quick shades for my metal minis I paint (to save time). There are videos showing how it works on their site. I buy all of my Army Painter supplies right here at Paizo because they sell them all as well.
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I like the idea of quickhading but since they are really expensive and I normally don't need that stuff I like to reduce it to only one of the three available quickshades.
I know there is soft, strong and dark tone.
Wich one of these would you recommend for the pathfinder miniatures.
I dont think that dark would work for all of the miniatures.
With soft i am not sure if it is visible enought.
I would like to hear some advice from someone who has already used it.