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ab0cjh

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Hi All,

I'm just returning to the hobby of minature painting after nearly 12 years.

It seems things have moved on a fair bit since then with regard to paints and even techniques.

I've recently painted a minature using GW paints. Despite thining the paint and making sure that my lightsource was giving off minimal heat my paint was still drying slightly too fast for my liking.

I noticed in Natalya's tutorial (free sample tutorial on CMON frontpage) she is using paints that seem to stay wet as a 'blob' (technical term)

Could any of you give me a short list of the main suppliers/pros/cons - or direct me to an old thread where this has all been covered before?

I had a quick look at wet pallets too but was wondering if there are slower drying paints/paint additives instead

Thanks in advance for your time!

ab0cjh
 
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Kretcher

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Hi, Believe there is numerous things somewhere in this place where what you are asking is mentioned. There is some slow drier mediums that you can buy, I use some from time to time and still use a wet palette also. You can also try to find wet on wet blending technique articles as they should have use of a paint that stays wet for a little longer time. But usually acrylics dry very fast, even when using slow dryer.

I use liquitex brand and add parts of it into my water bottle that I use to dilute the paints.

I am sorry that I can´t point to any specific thread about this subject, hopefully someone with a little bit more time can help you with this. (next time I might have more time)

Welcome here and good luck with you paiting, please post your result here so that we can give advice on improvment for you.

/Kretcher
 
Einion

Einion

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ab0cjh said:
I had a quick look at wet pallets too but was wondering if there are slower drying paints/paint additives instead
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I presume from this you're having trouble with the paint drying too quickly on the model, rather than just on the palette. Most hobby paints do dry similarly quickly, so if you need to extend the working time the thing to look at is retarder, which is specifically made to slow the drying of this kind of paint. I would caution, it's very easy to become overly reliant on retarders and when striving for a bit more and a bit more working time to eventually add too much, which causes the paint not to dry properly.

A lot of the time, once you've tackled the paint drying too quickly on the palette (i.e. buy or make a stay-wet palette) you'll find it a lot easier to deal with the natural drying rate of the paint.

Einion
 
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