LoopholeMaster,

Maelstrom Games and the like are no longer allowed to send stuff to the Southern Hemisphere by order of Gamesworkshop....

What's the mail service over there like? If it's not too much of a hassle, you could PayPal me money and I could send it down there for you. If your ordering something, get the GW Washes set, and definately GW Boltgun Metal.

Try Vallejo I looked online to see if there were any stores who sell it and there is one in Brazil don't know too much about Brazil to know if it's close to you but  heres the address.

HORIGINAL MODELISMO
Rua Canuto do Val, 54 -Sub solo-
Santa Cecília
Sao Paulo – CEP 01224 – 0408
BRASIL
E-mail: horiginal@horiginal.com.br
Tel. 00 55 11 3222-0429
Fax 00 55 11 3222-1007

 I just wouldn't use enamel paints. While they look clean they also look thick. Go with acrylics you dont even have to use GW or modeling acrylics. They aren't the greatest paints but stuff that they sell at the craft store in tubes will work. Also you can try Model Masters Acrylics, Tamiya Acrylics and Testors Acrylics. As for washes use colored indian ink and water it down a lot again at a craft store.

Thanks a lot for the support guys. I'll try to check out the place arkangl mentioned, and if I have no luck I'll consider your offer, [So]Rice, thanks a lot.

Anyway, back to the diary. I went ahead and repainted my axis crates dark gray, and I think that turned out MUCH better. I'm glad I only removed the original blue from one of the crates, cause that procedure really damaged the surface, which will never be nice and smooth again. Oh well, I'll just have to add some texture to hide that. The other one I simply painted over the blue coat and it turned out fine.

And another breakthrough: a really small brush! Man, this completely changed everything. Now I realize the brush I was using was HUGE, it was such a struggle to avoid painting the wrong areas, now with this small brush it really made me want to go in and paint every little detail. SO much easier. These are my original brush and my new smaller brush:

With the new brush I started adding some detail to the Recon Boys. Some brown lining to the backpacks and coats, a darker tone to the boots, a little detail on the Victory MG... I think I need to darken and maybe add more red to this brown for the boots and rifle, though...

Looking very good, can't wait to see what you are able to do when you get other paints.

Not much progress today. It's been hard to find some spare time. For the first time I mixed some paints, trying to get a richer brown for the allied boots and weapon detail. Never having tried that before, I was pleased to have little trouble mixing some black brown and red to achieve the colour desired.

The problem would be to achieve this mix again at a later time, so since I wanted the same colour for all my allied boots, I went ahead and used the mix on all my figures, also doing some extra leather details on Joe.

Good job again, are you leaving the gloves green too or painting them a different color?

No, I'm painting them a different colour, as seen below. I also painted the the inner fur of the hood white, though the paint was a bit too thick at first so the result wasn't as clean as it should have been. I think now I'm pretty much done with the base colours for Recon Boys, I just might add some brown to the central segments of the rifle.

And my wife decided to join in and started painting the Gunners. We decided to use the same colour for all of the allied hard armour, to maintain some unity in the whole army. She did a fine job with the painting, only a little bit of splashing which will be dealt with in future coats. It was nice to see the work moving ahead twice as fast.

[So]Rice said:

Hey, Rice, I think I'll take you up on that offer. I've scoured all the stores I could find, and it does seem there are no washes anywhere in Brazil. If you're still up to it, please mail me at thiaranha@gmail.com

Minis are lookin nice man.

There is a company called Liquitex that makes a "basic" acrylic line that has between 24-48 paints. This is what I started with and still use in addition to the GW and vallejo paints I've bought. Once you become familiar with painting more you will figure out what you "need" on your own.

This is it

Great price as well.

If you are on a budget, this is def the way to go. I've made washes from these and they work quite well.

Les from awesomepaintjob.com just put out this good video about what you need and don't need right away to get started.

My Dust base set just arrived today! My command troops should be here on Monday!

Great work, keep it up!

Haven't had much time to paint lately. Anyway, here's my latest progress. I think I'm now fully done with the base colour for the Recon Boys, after adding some wood to the rifles and some other final touches.

And I think I'm pretty much done with the base colours for the Gunners as well. I found that dilluting the paint with a bit of thinner really helps retain the details of the model.

And started painting BBQ squad. Since I love these guys, I really want to do them justice. I'm thinking of going for a reddish-black colour scheme for them.

I'm nearly done with the base colours for my ally troops. Here's "Bazooka" Joe Brown. Since he's an actual character, I tried to stick more to his official colours. Man, I can't wait to start applying the washes and highlights to my figures... Hopefully the wash will dull a bit the brightness of the metallic paint on the shells. I also thought I should wait til after the wash to do the eyes, right?

Finally, here's my base painted BBQ squad! I know this brownish-red is not the most combat-savvy of colours, but then again my BBQ squad has never been known to sneak discreetly across the battlefield.

And with this I'm done withe base colours for my ally troops (until my expansions arrive). I still have quite some time to wait until my washes arrive, so I guess there's nothign else I can do to them in the meantime. Should I apply a coat of matte varnish at this stage or just when the whole thing is done? It's supposed to be a spray, right? Hope I can find it around here...

Now I'm not sure whether I move on to the axis troops, or start playing with the tanks for a change of scenery.

Look great, ,your washes are coming so you can finish these up!

Looks good! One thing I noticed is a lot of people don't paint the armor/leg pads(?) on Joe. He clearly has some protection or at least a material over his legs, tied down at mid thigh. Similar to the arm pads, which you did paint.  I think it helps to paint this to break up the single color of his overalls.

Can't wait to see them once they are washed!

 Dunno, that looks very much like pockets on the side of Joe's pants, so I don't think they should be a different colour. In some of the pics he's got kneepads, but the model doesn't have them.

Thanks, can't wait to see them washed myself. But should I apply some matte varnish now or just at the end of the whole thing: