Comments on: Dipping Orcs – Warhammer

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:11:10 +0000

Minwax would be nice, particularly for clean up and over-painting since it’s water based. Unfortunately I don’t think that’s sold locally (in New Zealand).

The all-in-one stain isn’t an ideal solution, particularly from the over-painting aspect – but it’s nice and cheap!

For figures I wanted to over-paint I’d probably revert to good old fashion chestnut ink washes, which have much the same effect as dipping, although they’re all little more subtle.

By: Kane

Kane — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:43:03 +0000

Here in the US, I use Minwax water based stain. Has no finish mixed with it. Works the same, though. Just have to make sure I use some matte varnish afterwards.

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:55:36 +0000

Thanks gentlemen! One problem with the all-in-one satin varnish is that on drying it’s hard to over-paint with acrylics. To be fair I haven’t tried over-painting the figures -after- dusting them with matt varnishing as well. Possibly that will make a difference.

By: Steve-the-Wargamer

Steve-the-Wargamer — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:42:27 +0000

The look brill – some of the army painter tutorials mention just brushing the stuff on rather than going the whole hog and dipping… wonder if that might lighten the layer on the skin tones while still giving you the lovely effect on weapons and clothes??

By: Tankred

Tankred — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:05:21 +0000

Yery nice and a good result for improvised FAP. I found that a lot of guys spent more money on searching for alternatives than a can of FAP would cost, but you have chosen carefully.

I think you should consider to add eyes and a light blade highlight for finishing touches.

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:23:15 +0000

Yes it works very well. The only annoying thing is I spent $10 for a pot of Charcoal stain and probably used about 5-7ml to gradually mix into the all-in-one stain!

You want I should send you some?

By: Dustan

Dustan — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:35:04 +0000

I am definately going to need a tin of the charcoal stain now, using it raw has limited my decision on when to dip. If I had of thought about it before hand I should have tried mixing some charcoal stain with regular clear varnish and dipped all my Space wolves.

Given that their are a lot more stain colours than there are all in one clours you could hit an almost endless pallet by tinting you own varnish. What would be particularly nice is using a Matt varnish as the base.

By: Monty

Monty — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:30:52 +0000

Nice one, Stu,

Your Orc looks very good and as you say, once you offset the time saved dipping with the results, which I think look pretty damned good by anyone’s standards, you’re onto a winner.
Interesting to see the alternate dips used too.
All the best.