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Base coat and wash is all I do most of the time and they look great.

Look at it this way. It is a wash. If your eyes prevent mini perfection, they won't notice anyway. That imperfect mini will look...

Lots of great advice in your post (and this thread in general), but I am going to give a different opinion on this. Brush quality...

wash like soap and water?

The journey of a 1000 miles etc. Buy some minis...any minis. Buy some paint...any paint. Critique your outcome but don't compare it to...

It isn't 'research the chemical composition of each plastic miniature'. It's 'don't buy Bones'. I've never even seen Bones miniatures in...

I have stated from the beginning that it was all Bones minis except Bones Black. A fact that you repeatedly and conveniently overlooked...

If you're using normal acrylics use multiple (separate) thin coats. Dilute the paint with a touch of water onto a wet palette and slap...

Big monsters are fantastic for practicing on! With human-like miniatures we tend to sweat the details. With a shambling mound, earth...

Yes, this. He's using very specific minis with a known issue and is refusing to admit that other minis made of different plastic don't...

But this is the point, right? You sprayed models made of a lesser plastic that is known to cause issues, and you are telling people that...

I have used standard GW spray primer over normal GW plastic and metal miniatures for 30 years and I have never once experienced an issue...

I know it gets a bad rep, but I do think that 4E did this pretty well. 4E encounter design was pretty good.

A wet palette. The army painter one is great, they're really cheap. It's just a bit of wet foam with a sheet of special paper on it that...