HELP!! I'm running a demo for painting minis

[gwingfan]

I am running a bunch of demos for painting minis, can I get any pieces of advice for this, just to help me out?

[joshuaslater]

Where is it?  When is it?  Details?  We can offer more advice if we know the story.

[MadBrad]

A good idea would be to Google some miniature painting guides, then cut and past a couple of pages to use as your course outline.  It will also give your victim.... I mean, new painters a roadmap to follow, as you introduce the basics of painting.   There are several good guides out there, find the ones that you think are well written and plagiarize...I mean adopt their ideas into your presentation. 

For new painters, I would strongly recommend coverning the following:

1. Prepping the figure.  Cleanliness and Godliness.
2. The tools of the Trade.   Paints, brushes, files and X-actos
3. Primer is Your Friend... Black, White and Gray
4. Basic Color Selection.
5. Washes and Drybrushing. 

Depending on the audience, this could take an hour or more to complete.   However, even a total newb with these techniques and proper materials should be able to turn out a decent fig.   

Hope that helps1

[Sylvas]

a good, but expensive, book to get is the Citadel Miniatures Guide to Painting Minis (or something like that)...it goes over all the things that you would need to know, like priming, basecoating, washes, drybrushing, detailing, and the like...also, if you can get a hold of the White Dwarf magazine from a few months ago (I think it was 4 issues ago), it has a good article on painting humans...

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