Help from a Customizer

[F1sh1000]

Ok, Ill give you some tips

1st - You need to find a Games Workshop thats around and if not, Order from there website.....Iv tryed so many paints and so many of them just flat out suck.......Games Workshop paint however is as perfect as it comes, you can actually paint over a Red used on a toy with the GW Red and you cant notice the difference. Its VERY good paint and they have plenty to choose from.

2nd - Make sure you have a nice assortment of Brushes, Fine Point, Thick and so on. You'll need certain brushes for certain things, trying to paint everything with one brush isnt the best idea and your work will show it.

3rd - Start Easy and Work your way up...........The best thing to paint is something easy, perhaps a simple recoloring.........Say painting Green Hulk into Red Hulk (played to death i know). But that can get your feet wet........Start with something easy, Its hard to pick up a brush the 1st time and expect to paint like Devinicie. Once your comfortable with your painting skill, you can expand, say next time you paint, try to alter the eyes, maybe the hair.......pretty soon youll be doing full fledged re-paints

4th - Make sure you give your paints plenty of time to dry.....you dont want to start mixing paints......If you put a coat of flesh on your entire Mugg, give it 10-15 minutes to fully dry. Otherwise if you try to go over it with another color later on, itll run and than you got problems

5th - Spread that paint .........alot of people love to be Lazy and just clump the paint on so they dont have to give it multiple coats......however others spread the paint so thin that yuo can see Brush Strokes.....Make sure you both spread the paint thin to avoid clumps and add multiple coats, make sure there are no brush stroaks visible........you want a nice THICK coat of paint on each part

Those are just a few things that came to my head, hope it helps

[Vulcan2422]

Im not sure about this BUT, Maybe you can back me up on this F1SH. Tape so you can mask off some parts for painting later on and what not. Also a VERY creative mind and Molding clay for accesories.

[marineswife]

Hmm. Thats a prettygood idea. Thanks for the tips. I might make one soon. Even though I suck at painting. LOL. But its no problem. Thanks for the help.

[elvenrunelord]

I am not a very good painter either. But I do like modding stuff and making it unique. Hey I think a pink hulk with yellow hair would be cool. Sorta Asian in concept but it could work.

[jmor]

how much is that kind of paint?

[F1sh1000]

it goes for about 3$ a container......container isnt very big though

[F1sh1000]

Another Tip i found out is priming REALLY does help........I know alot of people want to just re-paint the muggs out of the box but if you use spray on primer, preferbly from the "GAMESWORKSHIP", it works wonders. As always if your charcters is mostly light colors, use a white primer.......if hes dark colors use black. This helps because otherwise if you have a dark character and try painting him light colors, your gonna go through gallons of paint just to saturate the colors. Always use Primer and make sure to use the right color (black or white) to correspond with your character

[jmor]

thanks for the tips

[lord magneto]

wow thanks for the tips man... I'm flying back to nyc tomorrow and i just found a place online that sells those paints...

I've made two custom action figures before using cheap paints from walmart and i really didnt like how they turned out.

Any recommendations on a GW color of paint that will come close to matching a White persons flesh... sorta like Wolverines skin tone in your avatar?

[mxreid429]

I use all apple barrell or folk art acrylics from walmart, really cheap and works perfect on mine, just always prime a mugg. I dont use spray primer on mine but use dark gray acrylic paint and brush on mine. Works out great for me. These blank muggs are really dumb IMHO. I feel that we should buy the ones warming the area at our stores to paint on so that more product can be distributed to that particular store. I have bought 4 mace windus to clean out mine recently so DONT BUY THE BLANK ONES

[mxreid429]

you can find that skintone paint at walmart made by folk art called skintone. I used it on my link and my tony romo custom. Works great. Paints are almost all identical, its just how you apply the paint and effort put into actually painting the figure which shows your best work off

[craven fiend]

I think I may have to give recreating the Hulk a try. Not really an artistic person, but I'd like to make a custom mugg, if only to say I did it.

[lord magneto]

Thanks for the suggestion. I am probably going to pickup a few landos that are one sale to use for a few more customs.

[F1sh1000]

Lord Magneto - use either Dwarf Flesh or Elf Flesh, both are perfect just one is lighter than the other.......Look at both and see which you prefer, i personally like Dwarf Flesh better, it has a tint of Red in it.

[Ralph]

Wow.... Dwarf Flesh. I can't imagine trying to get a color match for that at a regular paintshop.

[ekoala]

I use all apple barrell or folk art acrylics from walmart, really cheap and works perfect on mine, just always prime a mugg. I dont use spray primer on mine but use dark gray acrylic paint and brush on mine. Works out great for me. These blank muggs are really dumb IMHO. I feel that we should buy the ones warming the area at our stores to paint on so that more product can be distributed to that particular store. I have bought 4 mace windus to clean out mine recently so DONT BUY THE BLANK ONES

I use the same paints. It takes a bunch of coats, but the end result is very solid and well worth it. I started off really easy with a Munny that I pretty much painted a solid color and then put a face on it. Now I am working my way up to more complex ideas. Right now I am working on a Mega Man Mighty Mugg (M4...LOL) and it took a bit of sculpting. I actually use mighty putty for my sculpting. It takes a while to get things just right, but I like the medium. If you want to check out my customs, I post them to my website. Thanks!

[lord magneto]

Lord Magneto - use either Dwarf Flesh or Elf Flesh, both are perfect just one is lighter than the other.......Look at both and see which you prefer, i personally like Dwarf Flesh better, it has a tint of Red in it.

Thanks man I'm heading over to a store that sells them tomorrow... hopefully will start my first custom mugg tomorrow night (my fiancee is going to kill me... we are getting married in 3 weeks and there is crazy stuff left to do)

[arnoldrimmer]

Thanks for the tips. I'll have to try a color change first and see how it goes after that.

[F1sh1000]

Ah, theres always time to paint a mugg right?

[Perfect Bebop]

Thanks man I'm heading over to a store that sells them tomorrow... hopefully will start my first custom mugg tomorrow night (my fiancee is going to kill me... we are getting married in 3 weeks and there is crazy stuff left to do)

If she's worth it, she'll understand. :p

F1sh, whats your thoughts on going with GW branded paints over, well, anything else?

[F1sh1000]

Iv tryed a few paints here and there as substitutes but the GW paint is the absolute best in my oppinion. In all honesty if i cant find the colors im looking for in GW, if say there out of em, ill just wait till they get more rather then just pick up another brand~