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How do you paint a plastic miniature to look like polished mahogany?
I have a miniature trophy made out of plastic (3D printed from PLA) and I want to paint the base to look like polished mahogany. It's about 2" across.
Is there any guidance on which colors to use,...
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How can I draw a horizontal line on a spherical object?
I have made this jar using plaster:
I painted it with plastic white paint as a base, and then applied this gold metallic paint.
Now I want to paint some horizontal brown lines using oil-based brown ...
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Using an underpainting and painting a gradient on top of another, with gouache
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When we paint with gouache, previously laid layers of paint will get re-wet, and dissolve again, mixing into and strongly impacting (usually, for the worse) whatever we are trying to create ...
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