Whay are the Swedish gamers good painters ? :)

[fredrik]

It looks like you are painting them already mounted on bases. Doesn't that make it hard to reach some parts of the figures?

Yes it does, but that which cannot be reached cannot be seen, and the back primer left visible simply looks like shadow. Priming first, then basing, then painting is the secret (or at least one of the secrets) to painting quickly.

[Fulgrim]

Altough i paint like my friends above most of the time i have occationally doubleprimed minaitures (foremost my seleucid army ages ago - skills and time were lacking then but the priming technique was good).
With doublepriming i mean:
1: Clean minis
2: prime black
3: mount on bases, flock (i used fine sand)
4: Prime black again
5: prime with just a overhead dusting of white primer in a way that highlight the minis "naturrally" ie surfaces facing uppwards gets the most.

It takes some more time and is not as forgiving as the all-black priming but gives some benefits regarding bright coulours and the fact that you can ink (chesnut and brown ink worked really good) whole horses to a good colour directly without the need to paint them first.

Re Bright colours and that it could be to thight to reach based minis - i do not see that as a problem, some examples:

Before:


After:

[daleivan]

Very nicely done! Great effect on the flocking, too.

Dale

[Redpossum]

Ah, yes, very nice Aztecs! The Eagle Knights are gorgeous

[nicofig]

And very nice banner

[Fulgrim]

Thanks!

As you can see there isnt so hard to get details, but the important part is: you dont have to! - the black from the primer gives "natural" shadows if wanted as explained above.

[Probert]

I like the Swedish painting, and I favor the massage technique as well. They probably have a lot of time to perfect painting skill during the sunless winters.

[ogglas]

And don´t forget our rainy summers