Paint Consistency

In most cases, you are not going to want to take the paint from the bottle and put it straight on the mini. The paint will be too thick and will dry like a big blob of goo. Put the paint on your palette and thin it out. There are all kinds of products and additives on the market for thinning your paint.

Personally, I just use the same water I use to rinse my brushes.

That’s right! My dirty well water! All you purists, witness my blasphemy, and despair!

The truth is, it works just fine, the water is right next to me anyway, and it’s free. If I were highlighting bright white on a showcase mini, I might think twice and go get some totally clean water. But for a base coat on a Warg? I don’t even think about it at all.


The paint should be thin enough that it won’t plug the detail on the model, in this case the Warg’s face and fur. To test the paint, put a couple swatches somewhere on your palette. It should be thin enough that some of the palette color can seen through a single coat, but thick enough that the paint doesn’t just separate and fall apart.