Over the past few weeks I have been dabbling with painting 25mm figures using Army painter Speed Paints. Overall I have enjoyed using them, however, I had run into difficulties with the paint bleeding into lighter colours (especially red) and later in applying white.
My solution has been to paint most of the colours in the normal way with Speed Paints, which is very quick. Once dry, I then give the figures two coats of Army Painter matt varnish. It is then possible to paint on the detail, such as cross belts and shako cords.
Overall, not brilliant, but acceptable and an easy way of churning out multiple battalions. Here we see three units, one Portuguese and two British line. They are a mix of figures. The Portuguese are mostly Ros British and the British are in the main Minifigs S range.
Great looking figures and they have painted up really well using the speed paints, very nice work.
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