by DA_Maz
When I got Descent I thought painting the minis is out of the question because of all the colors I would need to paint this wide variety of monster species this game contains.Then it occured to me that I was thinking about this the wrong way. Coming from my Warhammer past I thought the only way to paint miniatures is to buy all the colors I would need to make the figures look good, but I was wrong. As it tunrs out you don't need to paint an entire army of creatures that have to look alike in Descent (you only have to paint a maximum of 5 units of the same kind) which means mixing colors wouldn't be such a big hassle. If you mix enough paint to apply it to every miniature in the same session, color consistency can be achieved by amateurly mixing the apropriate colors together.
So I invested a little bit over 20€ to get primary colors (red, yellow, blue), black&white, a metal color, skin color and brown. I plan on watering the brown color down to wash if I think it's worth it.
So far I only ran into the minor problem that my mixed colors (I mixed them on a metal plate) were drying out before I could apply it to every monster. I made the observation that the color stayed applyable the longest when I wasn't spreading the color out too much in the mixing process, but even then it became rather thick sooner or later (too soon for me as it truns out). Can anybody give me some advice how to deal with his problem?
Although this thing was a little bit annoying, it wasn't a very big problem to mix the same color again as I had the dried out color for guidance.
All in all I am coming along well and nearly finished the goblin archers with only minor things to do.
Maybe I will post some images of them once they're finished if someone is interested.