clean and prime

[mqstout]

I'm thinking I might try painting my LNOE figures lately (might!). How do the plastic figures get cleaned and primed? Do they need priming?

[phantomninja]

Clean them with a light dash of soap and water. Hit them up with a grey primer to balance light and dark colors. I prefer to hand paint the primer but spray will be ok.

[Emp]

Just drop them in warm (not hot!) water with some dishwashing soap. Let them soak and then go over them with an old toothbrush. Rinse them good with water so that there is no soap left on the figs.
And as for primer, there is white and black in spraycans available. White gives a more bright look to the figures after they are painted. Black dulls the colours more. Check out the pictures of my zombies. My clowns had a white basecoat and the guy in the chicken suit had a black.

I find black giving a cooler look when they are done. The figures don't look so bright. But I find it harder to see all the details on them when I am actualy painting them.

Or like Phantom says you can handpaint the primer with whatever colour you want. But I find preparing and priming the figures very boring so blasting them with a spraycan speeds things up.

[vikinglad]

It may be a good idea to read through SamuraiTrev's painting tutorials, which cover this and lots of other tidbits you may not have thought of. I relied heavily on them when starting out with my LNOE dudes.

[samuraitrev]

(06-15-2012 03:51 AM)mqstout Wrote:  I'm thinking I might try painting my LNOE figures lately (might!). How do the plastic figures get cleaned and primed? Do they need priming?

Yessss go for it Mqstout! Give painting your LNoE minis a try, you won't look back!

[mqstout]

Other end of it: Is it okay to use a blanket spray dull coat, and then brush on gloss afterwards where desired? I've had a friend mention that two "coats" like that can cause "white spots" or some such.

Haven't started anything yet -- I'm a "think all the steps through first" kind of guy.

[samuraitrev]

1) Blanket spray the dull/matt varnish coat
2)Then brush on any gloss areas where desired.

You would only get white spots/patches if you apply far too much varnish. Basically if it's white when your're painting it on, you're painting it on too thick. It's very easy to avoid this if you follow that rule. Keep those questions coming!

[Dacostasr]

(06-15-2012 04:09 AM)phantomninja Wrote:  Clean them with a light dash of soap and water. Hit them up with a grey primer to balance light and dark colors. I prefer to hand paint the primer but spray will be ok.

What primer do you use? I'd like to be able to sit in the house and hand paint primer as opposed to what I used to do when I played GW (GW primer)

Thanks in advance...

Dennis