Heres some pictures of a couple of miniatures I painted a few years ago and put into storage:
Chronopia Elven Dream Warrior
First up theres the Elven Dream Warrior from Chronopia. Despite his chunkiness, I love the figure and had originally painted him up with a very limited palette. Fortunately he just needed a few little spots here and there due to being chipped before he was varnished.
Ice Elemental
Next upe theres an Ice Elemental originally from the Ral Partha Crucible range. I had just rebased him and gave him a varnish only to be horrified when I checked back to find it had gone all cloudy! I gave him a wash of blue ink and a drybrush of silver but he still doesn't look nearly as good as before I flubbed the varnishing. I think I may repaint him by mixing up a metallic blue paint over a blue base but we shall see.
Its given me cause to pause for thought on how I varnish my figures. I must admit that until recently in my 20 years of gaming I had survived without varnish but with moving around so often over the last three years I noticed in the last month or so that my figures were starting to look a little worse for wear so started using matt spray varnish. all seemed to be going well until this last batch of figures and I can only assume there was some moisture in the air when I sprayed the stuff this time.
Does anyone have any suggestions for producing a decent finish with varnish as I have noticed the stuff I am using at present seems to matt down even the metallics a bit too much. In an ideal world I would use brush on varnish but the last time I tried a supposedly matt varnish from the pot it turned out near gloss!
All the best!
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