
Learn to prepare a figure, clean mold lines, reinforce joints, prime, tile, dilute acrylic paints, and apply color theory with practical exercises for a beginner, via video on demand.
Unbox the product, verify all pieces are present in their foam-protected bags, locate mold lines on each piece, and repeat for every piece.
Identify essential tools for painting miniatures, including cutting blades, tweezers, files, sandpaper, drills, glues, putty, palettes, brushes, airbrush, primer, bases, and acrylic paints.
Remove imperfections by cutting resin spruce, scraping mold lines, and smoothing with a round file, a half-round file, and sandpaper. Check fit and adjust the left foot before painting.
Reinforce miniature figure joints through precise drilling, alignment, and cyanoacrylate glue, then adjust hole alignment and plan painting order for parts to be painted separately.
Mount a mini figure on a wooden holder with bolts and clamps, glue the arms in position, drill alignment holes, and secure the base with blue tac.
Clean all parts with soap and water to remove traces of release agent before priming. Use small amounts of blue tech to protect the joint from painting.
Prime the miniature figure with white paint in the Aburish Cup, applying several preparation steps to ready the figure.
Mix acrylics with water to about 50 percent for a base color, achieve a uniform brushstroke, build lights and shadows with transparent layers, and set up a wet palette.
INTRODUCTION
This video contains the basic fundamentals to get started in the painting of figures to scale.
This first part is divided into 11 chapters:
The unboxing of the product, the description and handling of the tools most commonly used in the preparation and painting of miniature figures.
We will learn to detect and eliminate the imperfections of the manufacture of the miniatures.
We will also see how to strengthen the joints between the different pieces that make up the kits, the preparation of supports for painting and thus avoid touching the figure and how to apply the primer using an airbrush.
We will learn how and how much to dilute acrylic paint depending on the results we want to obtain: painting base coats, making smooth transitions between tones, applying glazes, etc.
We will study how the overhead light affects the figure in order to paint the lights and shadows in the miniatures following a logical and ordered sequence of steps.
We will end with an introduction to color theory, where we will become familiar with concepts such as: primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors, analogous colors, complementary colors, and color temperature.
We will also observe a series of basic rules that will be very useful when mixing colors and will help us to lighten and darken the different tones with which we will paint the figure.