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<blockquote data-quote="collin" data-source="post: 982922" data-attributes="member: 6757">Painting miniatures website(s)The best site to go to is:<a href="http://miniature-painting.net/links_painting.html" target="_blank">http://miniature-painting.net/links_painting.html</a>From here, you will find numerous sites that have tips ranging from how to prime your miniatures all the way up to tricking-out techniques.&nbsp; They can answer questions about highlighting and so forth, and of course some people do things differently.Still being something of a novice, I will leave people who are more experienced than me to answer most of your questions.&nbsp; However, the one thing I can answer is your question about drybrushing.&nbsp; To me, if you learn how to do one technique (and do it well), drybrushing is the most important because it is used so much (again, other painters may differ).&nbsp; Basically, get some paint on the end of your brush and then blot it or wipe it until you can get *almost* get no more paint to come off the brush.&nbsp; This almost is key.&nbsp; When in doubt, keep wiping or blotting the brush.&nbsp; Then, just brush or &quot;blotch&quot; the area of the miniature you want to paint.The best example I can think of in using this technique is painting chainmail on a fig, e.g., I will prime an orc warrior with black primer, then when it comes time to do the chainmail armor, I will pick a metallic paint and use drybrushing so it just highlights the chain links and leaves the tiny spaces between the links black.&nbsp; Other people might use washes to fill in the holes with black or some other color.Collin</blockquote>

[QUOTE="collin, post: 982922, member: 6757"] [b]Painting miniatures website(s)[/b] The best site to go to is: [url]http://miniature-painting.net/links_painting.html[/url] From here, you will find numerous sites that have tips ranging from how to prime your miniatures all the way up to tricking-out techniques. They can answer questions about highlighting and so forth, and of course some people do things differently. Still being something of a novice, I will leave people who are more experienced than me to answer most of your questions. However, the one thing I can answer is your question about drybrushing. To me, if you learn how to do one technique (and do it well), drybrushing is the most important because it is used so much (again, other painters may differ). Basically, get some paint on the end of your brush and then blot it or wipe it until you can get *almost* get no more paint to come off the brush. This almost is key. When in doubt, keep wiping or blotting the brush. Then, just brush or "blotch" the area of the miniature you want to paint. The best example I can think of in using this technique is painting chainmail on a fig, e.g., I will prime an orc warrior with black primer, then when it comes time to do the chainmail armor, I will pick a metallic paint and use drybrushing so it just highlights the chain links and leaves the tiny spaces between the links black. Other people might use washes to fill in the holes with black or some other color. Collin [/QUOTE]

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