I
thought I make a start on painting some of the infantry, even if only to
get a rough Idea of how I like them to be. Only trouble is I'm having
terrible trouble with painting them. I know I'm terribly out of practice
with painting, especially at 6mm scale. I have painted a couple of
stands of terminators that turned out awful and a handful of random ork
minis recently and that's it. I seem to be getting very chalky or very
streaky paint, even though I use the standard practice of watering down
paint, Ive even taken to using vallejo medium thinner (which was a
godsend for my very gooey pot of goblin green!)
I have painted a handful of 28mm goblins since I restarted in the hobby
and though not the greatest painted, they at least came out with smooth
coats.
But I have tried to get a nice, streak free and smooth coat of either reds, or yellow and its really starting to get me down.
It is most noticeable on the cannon at the back. The light and dark lines in the yellow are not highlights, but lumps.
I
used black undercoat> tinny tin base > dheneb stone on all parts
that were to be yellow (very very thin coat)> Gold brown (vallejos
close to match for darksun)> Flat yellow> very light edgeing with
golden yellow>home made yellow glaze (which is just flat yellow Mixed
with slightly more Medium+ water)
These are the badab ones with the glossy skin! I gave up on these as I
hated them so much and so they never got to the glaze stage!
I
have been looking up painting guides, Watching videos and searching all
the old incoming! ezines, and copy every piece of advice (which is
normally water paints down, thin layers!) and I just don't seem to be
getting it right at this scale!
I'm thinking that maybe an idea
to switch to grey primer, but Ive seen many decent looking orks from
black primers and so think it might just be me!
Maybe I wasn't made to paint! 
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