Colour Scheme

Seeing as how I’m probably going to have a lot of infantry miniatures to paint I have decided that ‘dipping’ them is the way to go.

I read about the technique a while back and I’ve already tried it on a few fantasy RPG miniatures with varying success, and it basically involves painting just the base colours on a miniature and then ‘dipping’ it (head first) into a tin of woodstain or similar. Then all you do is shake off the excess into a box and let the woodstain shade/stain the miniature in a similar way to an ink wash/glaze.

I think there is a company selling a specific dipping stain, but I’ve instead opted for a somewhat cheaper option. The stuff I’m going to be using is a cheap tin of ‘medium oak’ water based woodstain that cost me a whole £2.79 (I think).

However, I found that using it ‘as is’ doesn’t always work very well and so I have been watering it down a little (and applying it liberally with a brush rather than actually ‘dipping’), and been getting reasonable results.

Anyway, I did a couple of different colour schemes on a few of the old plastics I have (mainly ones already badly assembled or ones I have no heads for etc.) – just to see what colours would work OK when I ‘dip’ them, and this is the colour scheme I have settled on.

Admittedly the paint job itself doesn’t look great, but once there’s a few of these guys on the table they should look OK