AegonTheUnready | 27 Mar 2019 10:18 a.m. PST |
I bought a WotR army off ebay a while ago. I like the longbows, but the billmen all have torsos painted gunmental like they are wearing breastplates. Looking closely you can CLEARLY see the vertical lines indicating that they are actually wearing the padded jackets popular during the period. "Gambesons" I think is the name. Should I just paint over the gunmetal? or strip and start from scrath? These are 15mm figures btw |
Herkybird | 27 Mar 2019 10:26 a.m. PST |
It depends on how thick the paint is, if possible, just overpaint is my advice, it would be a lot of hastle stripping cleaning and repainting the lot! |
Col Durnford | 27 Mar 2019 10:44 a.m. PST |
I've done both. As was said, depends on how thick the paint is and how much work need to be done. In your case, I would just paint over with no stripping. |
wrgmr1 | 27 Mar 2019 11:31 a.m. PST |
Currently I'm repainting some 20mm Germans with poor paint jobs. Jackets were blobs of green and brown. Gas masks, water bottles and weapons silver. |
DyeHard | 27 Mar 2019 12:16 p.m. PST |
Two things to consider: 1) Is the paint failing? That is is it flaking-off, blistered, cracking, or otherwise going to make a paint-over fail? If so strip. 2) is the under paint so thick it hinds wanted details? This happens on equipment, but almost never on figures. People are often poorly cast and creative painting is the source of detail, not the casting. If you like any part of the existing paint job, I would avoid stripping. |
robert piepenbrink | 27 Mar 2019 12:19 p.m. PST |
As a general rule, I would strip only when the existing paint obscured detail on the casting. Since you can still see the vertical lines clearly, yours don't appear to be that bad. Remember even the best stripping is going to involve a certain amount of work with picks and/or pins. Don't if you can avoid it. |
dampfpanzerwagon | 27 Mar 2019 1:43 p.m. PST |
As stated above – it depends on how thick the paint is. I have done both and the results are similar. Tony |
14Bore | 27 Mar 2019 2:06 p.m. PST |
I am quick to send troops to the stripper, but if it's minor things touch up |
khanscom | 27 Mar 2019 6:24 p.m. PST |
If the base paint is stable and not applied so thick that detail is obscured, then paint over it. In my opinion it's not worth the time to strip paint. If the paint is excessively thick, or chipping from the figure then it's probably time to strip and apply a fresh coat. |
goragrad | 27 Mar 2019 8:33 p.m. PST |
I have yet to pick up a second hand figure that was so heavily painted that I felt that I had to strip the paint. Particularly if the rest of the paint job is adequate and you are looking at just redoing a portion of the figure. |
Bowman | 29 Mar 2019 5:39 a.m. PST |
Then you've been lucky. I bought some 2nd hand figures that I really wanted that came with a really terrible paint jog. The paint was so thick that it looked like the painter used a trawl instead of a brush. It totally obscured the detail in the casting. Only stripping would do. Luckily the horrendous paint job dropped the 2nd hand price substantially. |