FAQ: Painting White

[Favoured of the Emperor]

I do my white over black, then basecoat adeptus battlegrey, overbrush astronomicon grey then drybrush skull white.

 

Simple.

 

FOE

[Dusktiger]

if you want a pure skull white that goes on nice and thin, but covers fully without any of the grey showing through, buy a can of Krylon 'for plastics' Satin white spray paint. do 3 quick strokes over your mini, let it dry for 15 minutes, which is the recommended time on the can for it to dry enough for a second coat, then look where you missed on your first pass and do 2 or 3 quick passes again, and keep doing that till you get all sides painted. i did it for my Rising Blades DIY and it makes it SO easy to paint a crisp detailed white. no thinning your white and doing several thin layers. just 30 minutes of your time for a full tactical squad and you have a fully painted set of white armor that makes people think you spent HOURS painting it up. and the short little passes with the spray can mean you dont build up the paint all thick. DONT basecoat before using this spray. its intended to bond to plastics, like lawn chairs, so it works alot better on bare plastic. though it will work good on pre-painted stuff as well.