Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Varnish Issues...

I did well in Gothicomp this year. I happened to win the Conversion category with my Dark Eldar Mortalis. Interestingly enough, I am pretty disappointed with my Dark Eldar. Why you ask? Because the stupid varnish clouded it all up.

Here they are before...

And after...

The new picture is taken on a nice Canon camera and the first one taken on my cell phone and honsetly, I think the first picture looks so much better because you can see all the cloudiness in the second one that was added by the varnish spray. I am now totally ANTI-SPRAY VARNISH.

I have found a better way to do it. Paint on varnish! I have been painting some Space Marines for our Deathwatch games and the paint on varnish is amazing. It is a "matte" varnish, thought it does add some shine. It seemingly makes the colors more bold (probably because of the slight shine) and doesn't cloud them at all. I will be posting some pictures of them soon as a sideshow before we get back to the carnival called BFG.