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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9627568" data-attributes="member: 4534">I don’t think I’ve ever really reviewed a product, at least not with any formality.[ATTACH=full]401435[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]401436[/ATTACH]While at a local hobby shop, I spied a set of Wood & Leather colors from Vallejo.  I'm not very good at painting leather, I just keep falling flat, so for about $35 for a set of 8, or $4.40 for each color, I thought maybe I could get some practice.  All the colors you see on the hat, save for the goggles, were painted using the colors from the Wood & Leather set.  [ATTACH=full]401438[/ATTACH]Why buy a set of colors?  Why not just buy the individual paints you need?  That's a great question, hypothetical reader.  When it comes to painting leather, I never would have thought to buy colors like Smoke, Dark Sand, Japanese Uniform WWII, or Orange Brown...okay, maybe Orange Brown.  Getting a pallet of colors you wouldn't normally use is a great way to practice.  So there's that.  The paint set comes with a nice set of instructions on how to paint various woods and leathers (dark leather, light leather, and reddish leather).  Hat:  Dark LeatherHat Corset (?):  Light LeatherGoggle Bad:  Reddish LeatherI pretty much just followed the instructions provided.  Here's the thing, this is about four hours of work.  Just on the hat.  Some of that involved waiting for paint, especially the wash to dry, and I didn't find it tedious in the bit.  In fact, I'll try it again on some other miniatures and spend more time on the leather.  The trick is to lay down your base color, stipple or use short strokes with your highlight making sure some of the base still shows, then you use a wash, then you highlight with a brighter color, apply a wash, apply a different wash and you're done.  That's pretty much it in a nutshell.  You might go back and forth between the various steps until you decide your done.  If I were to do anything different, I don't think I would have stippled any black on at all.  It works in this case because the hat is supposed to look old and ratty.  I'd also take greater care making smooth highlights if I wanted the hat to look new.  Vallejo also makes a set for flesh colors, and I might end up purchasing that before tariffs kick in.  These paints are made in Spain.</blockquote>

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