Mig oil brushers or Abteilung 502 oils

[shaun5603]

Expending my paint range and wanting to incorporate the use oils more, mainly break up flesh tones and add more depth than what i can achieve with artcialys and enamels.

Have very basic understanding of oil paint.

Going to be working on 40k and kingdom death items.

Does anyone have experience with mig oil brushes or Abteilung 502 range, which one would be good for beginners with oil and work better on the scale i tending to use them.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Going to be working on 40k and kingdom death items.
Does anyone have experience with mig oil brushes or Abteilung 502 range, which one would be good for beginners with oil and work better on the scale i tending to use them.

Considering the drying time and scale involved I wouldn't bother.
Expect 24-48 hours drying time as a norm.
IMO Oils are best suited to larger scales where ultra smooth definitions and blending are the expectations.

Add in that oil paints often need to be mixed with additives plus larger pigment size and you may be creating a rod for you own back.

 

[shaun5603]

Ok thanks for the heads up on that. Saves me the headaches and frustration of trail and error or screwing up a model.

 

[bullfrog]

The best thing I've ever done was changing to oils when painting figures. The ability to blend the shadows and highlights is much smoother than than acrylics, or at least it was for me. It didn't take much mucking around to get great colour transitions, just a few hours practicing on an old mini. I don't mix my oils with anything and place them on cardboard to draw out some of the oil so it dries a little quicker and there is less chance of my figures ending up so shiny. If you don't want to do that you can mix matt medium for oils into it but I don't bother.
Sure it will still take a day or so to dry but you can blend your colours for hours and then dry once finished rather than using acrylics where you still have to stop mid project to let your layers dry. Although I still basecoat in acrylic and only use the oils over it.
I have used the 501 oils but usually keep them for military vehicles and figure clothing. For the faces I use Windsor and Newton oils. I have never tried the flesh tones even though I own a couple of them. It's so easy to mix your own flesh with just a few colours and it becomes second nature quite easily. It also ensures you don't have cookie cutter flesh tones covering every single figure. You don't have to get the most expensive oils and 501s end up relatively expensive when you consider they are a fraction of the size of many other oils. Although I can only go on the price of buying them in Australia.
I agree with Dragonsreach that oils may not be the best way to go with smaller scales. I find they are best used on larger figures and I don't go smaller than 1/35th. Even then I only use them for the body and final highlights on the faces.
Never used Mig brushes.
If you are interested in oils buy one or two and see if you like them... Then get the others you want.

 

[Ghool]

You can also get some cobalt drier to add to your oils as well. This will hasten the dry time down to a few hours, depending on the concentration you use. Obviously it contains cobalt, so it should be handled with extreme care.