Who likes to paint?🙋 So I like to paint little minifigures. I've been using a lot of oil paint recently. Traditionally, we tend to use water-based acrylic paints for figure painting, but luckily, oil paints have come back into fashion. That's not entirely true, water-based paints are more common for fantasy figures. Historical figurine painters also use everything because it's real cool.
One company recently came out with a really useful little oil paint package. It reminds me of nail paints. Maybe it's just because I've never painted my nails. 💅😅
As you can see, the packaging of the paint makes it very convenient to use. Of course, I don't use the paint bottle's own brush to apply the paint to the figurine. This is a good method for a larger model plane, but you never need to apply this amount of paint to a figure. I prefer to use a glass palette and apply the paint to the figure from there. Since it merely needs a petite amount of paint to paint a figure, one bottle will last half a lifetime. A whole tube would probably even be used by my great-grandchildren. 😁
Why is oil paint good? Because it's so easy to make beautiful transitions. I apply a base coat to the figure, then a coat of matte or satin varnish. Then a little lighter or darker oil paint and a clean brush. You wait a bit for the paint to dry, and then you can use the clean brush to work the paint nicely on the surface. It doesn't look so good in social media photos, but it's really showy on the table. So if you've got a box of board game figures you've always wanted to paint, this is the perfect way to do it.
