… but, if
we're being honest, it would be more useful to me if the WarhammerTV
Tip Of The Day video thumbnails had pictures of the things being
painted.
That having
been said those videos are really helpful. One of the problems with
printed painting guides is that they can't show you how to apply the
paint. Games Workshop painting guides are especially bad for this
since they describe about three different painting techniques as
“layering”. Sometimes, especially when your eyesight isn't that good as in my case, it can be hard to tell if some of the more subtle
differences in colour are actually layering or highlighting.
With a
video, however, you can literally see how the paint is applied. I'm
one of those people who learns best by watching and imitating. The
most useful thing to me has actually been having a clear visual
example of how much to thin my paints by and confirmation that the
awful first coats I'd achieve were meant to look like that.
That last
one was actually quite affirming. It also helps that I now have this
enormous open source recipe book for painting methods even if Duncan
Rhodes' face makes it a little hard to find that I'm looking for.
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