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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickbeam" data-source="post: 97472" data-attributes="member: 635">Hey Mark, long time no chat.  How's life in the windy city?Vallejo paints are great, but I also have the luxury using some paints that aren't available in retail stores.  One of my friend's parents own a ceramic and plaster design shop, and they get all kinds of wicked-cool water and acrylic paints.There is NO better method for stripping the paint off old minis than Pine Sol...at least not that I've found.  And for the price, how can you go wrong?I cannot recall which brand(s) of brushes I use, sorry .  But IMO this is an instance where paying a bit more for higher quality products, is an investment well made.  Cheap brushes are a nightmare to work with.Reaper figures are far and away my favorite.  In fact, other than a few old Ral Partha Chaos Archers, I don't own any minis that aren't made by Reaper.Finally, two tips for your painting.  Beyond using an array of brushes for different tasks try these:1) Dry brush a lighter shade of the same color over each portion of your figure.  It's a simple way to add depth and shadowing.  For instance, if your ranger's cloak is forest green, dry brush over the cloak in another green several shades lighter.  Don't worry about how lime green looks in the bottle, it looks AWESOME dry brushed over a darker green.  This also works for flesh tones, bones, scales, you name it.2) Try to find an art color chart -- they usually display complimentary and contrasting colors.  You'd be amazed how well your minis look when they're painted with colors chosen to either enhance or blend using these charts.</blockquote>

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