The 36 Lessons of PaintGoblin
Inspired by “The 36 Lessons of Vivec”
I’ve prepared a more … flourished version of this using ChatGPT.
Sermon One - It’s a PaintBrush
It’s a PaintBrush - not a pen. Don’t try to use it as a pen - draw the brush across the area you wish to paint and keep that tip safe.
Sermon Two - Deal with The Butt
Dropper bottles are attractive, but, have you tried just using the back of your paintbrush to “deal out” the paint onto a palette? You can also use a texture spreader or the “tongue” under the lid once you’ve mastered the next sermon.
Sermon Three - Trim Your Rings
The easiest way to prevent “paint smeg” from building up in flip-up paint pots is to remove the hinge. Change the pot from a “flip up” to a “pop off” style lid by clipping below the hinge, and, cutting the ring that it attaches to.
Sermon Four - Water to Taste
To thin one’s paint is an essential preamble before applying it to a model. The precise ratios are difficult to express as a fixed fact - not just because they rely on details of the specific batch’s formation and mixing. The paint’s thickness needs to be specific to the artist’s goals in the same way that brush size and pressure are. Disregard the struggle for precise formulas and thin your paints according to your needs as you need to.
Sermon Five - Tape Your Magnets
One frequently needs to attach magnets to the model and hold them flush with a surface. This is challenged by the fact that there will be a need to add glue to the hole and get the magnet placed just right. This is mostly present by putting magnets into the model’s bases. Using a piece of tape to hold the magnet, then, manoeuvring the untaped side into place sidesteps this concern. As an added benefit - while the glue dries, the tape will hold the magnet in place which allows the model to be handled more easily as there’s no concern of leakage and a reduced concern of misting. The tape never seems to hold fast once all is dry - removal is easy.
Sermon Six - Chisel your Tips Flat
Your brush tips are unlikely to ever regain their immaculate points. Mine don’t - but I’ve been using a “Citadel Starter Brush” for about half a decade … I should open the new ones … but I digress …
Chisels!
Chisel style tips are my preferred brush for 90% of the painting. I can turn it on its side to get a narrow line, and, its width helps the belly hold and disperse paint.
There’s an added benefit - the tips are much easier to form into chisels than points.
Sermon Seven - Wells of Metal Colour
Metal Colour is a high-end metallic paint designed for airbrushes and seemingly the best metallic. Because it is thinned for airbrushes it seems to separate and become runny and dispersed on a wet palette. I found that it works perfectly lovely in a silicone fidget toy that I had for inks and contrasts.
