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<blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 544839" data-attributes="member: 527">A lot of the &quot;unpainted&quot; figures on websites arent even completely unpainted; someone quickly splashes some black inks on them, which then runs into the crevices and picks out the details for the camera.&nbsp; If you dont feel like going whole hog, you might try just finishing the mini (use an Xacto and a small file to smooth off the mold lines), priming it with a spray primer and then inking it quickly black.&nbsp; Definitely, painting to the quality you'll see on coolminiornot.com (sort for figures which get an 8-10 score, wow!) will take some practice.&nbsp; I did a lot of my early work on a box of plastic GW Orcs; there are like 12 or 16 of the little guys and doing a similar figure over and over helped me figure out what works and what doesnt.&nbsp; And, when I was done, I had a big handful of Orcs, which is always useful for D&amp;D.&nbsp; ;-)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gizzard, post: 544839, member: 527"] A lot of the "unpainted" figures on websites arent even completely unpainted; someone quickly splashes some black inks on them, which then runs into the crevices and picks out the details for the camera. If you dont feel like going whole hog, you might try just finishing the mini (use an Xacto and a small file to smooth off the mold lines), priming it with a spray primer and then inking it quickly black. Definitely, painting to the quality you'll see on coolminiornot.com (sort for figures which get an 8-10 score, wow!) will take some practice. I did a lot of my early work on a box of plastic GW Orcs; there are like 12 or 16 of the little guys and doing a similar figure over and over helped me figure out what works and what doesnt. And, when I was done, I had a big handful of Orcs, which is always useful for D&D. ;-) [/QUOTE]

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