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Personal logo etotheipi Sponsoring Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 5:15 a.m. PST

By "ink" I mean tattoos. By "got" I mean do your miniatures have tattoos, not you.

As a side, if you have minis with tatts, do you do them with ink? paint? transfers? something else? (Also, if you personally have ink, feel free to disucss; it's just not the poll topic.)

For me – YES.

I have a lot of minis that have tattoos appropriate to their genre.
– Pirates, or sailors in general
– Yakuza, and other organizations
– Punks. and goths, and emos … oh my!
– Tribal membership tattoos
– General civvies with tatts

I do them with ultra fine point artist pens.

No ink on me other than temporary stains on my hands and the occasional pocket-pen-disaster.

robert piepenbrink Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 6:10 a.m. PST

Nah. I sometimes use ink to paint castings, but no tattoos. Alnost everyone's in uniform. Might be appropriate for my Scum and Villainy box, though. I'll have to think about that.

Personal logo Sgt Slag Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 6:14 a.m. PST

No: if I can't see it at 3+ feet, on the tabletop, I do not bother. I paint in bulk, so tattoos are not even floating in my mind when I paint. Cheers!

Eumelus Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 6:22 a.m. PST

I have a Maori-themed Necromunda gang which is heavily tattooed.

Personal logo John the OFM Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 7:20 a.m. PST

Does Warpaint on Indians count?
If so, yep.
Markings on horses too.

Ten Bears from The Outlaw Josie Wales is one. I don't think I'm alone in using movies as painting guides.

Shagnasty Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 8:07 a.m. PST

No tatts of any kind.

PzGeneral12 Nov 2024 8:17 a.m. PST

Nope

ZULUPAUL Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 8:25 a.m. PST

A few. I put a haert with an arrow through it & Mom underneath on a Cadian figure.

Personal logo Saber6 Supporting Member of TMP Fezian12 Nov 2024 8:34 a.m. PST

Nope, most of my 15mm troops are fully clothed so any ink is hidden. At 'game' viewing, most would appear as stains anyway

Red Jacket Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 9:06 a.m. PST

Yes, Iroquois Indians for colonial period in 28mm

Grattan54 Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 10:08 a.m. PST

Zip, nada, none.

Oberlindes Sol LIC Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 10:49 a.m. PST

I have a 15mm Martian Metals Traveller miniature with big, brawny, forearms on which I painted abstract tattoos with a very fine pointed artist's acrylic brush. I used Testor's enamel paint, if I recall correctly.

That was well over 40 years ago. If I can find him, I'll post a picture.

Frederick Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 10:55 a.m. PST

Nope – pretty much all have long sleeves – I did a few Chinese characters on my Boxers (like "king" and "brave") but they are painted on their tunics, not their arms

Dagwood12 Nov 2024 11:06 a.m. PST

Some of my naked Gauls have tattoos, but I didn't like them very much, not skilled enough to make them look good, so I stopped. I could still add more, though, anytime I feel like it !

doubleones12 Nov 2024 1:53 p.m. PST

Native Americans with warpaint. No tats that I can think of.

Personal logo Yellow Admiral Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 2:36 p.m. PST

+1 Dagwood and the others in the "too small to see" crowd. I've never seen it done convincingly on 15mm miniatures by much better painters than myself, so I've never tried it.

Tattoos might be a fun on art project on 28mm or larger miniatures, but I have avoided that scale on purpose, so I'll probably never find out.

- Ix

DisasterWargamer Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 3:52 p.m. PST

Only with Native Americans (as mentioned above)

or with the Maori

At 15mm hard to see anyway

Zephyr112 Nov 2024 9:06 p.m. PST

I can't paint designs that small (even for 28mm's.) And if decals were possible, I don't think that would work either…

Personal logo Doctor X Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 9:39 p.m. PST

Yes

Personal logo Wolfshanza Supporting Member of TMP12 Nov 2024 10:14 p.m. PST

Some on Gauls and eastern Indians in 28mm. Kanji on Boxer figures.

Dagwood13 Nov 2024 1:24 a.m. PST

One day I'll give some to my Carthaginian Libyans as well …

dusty 56213 Nov 2024 2:14 a.m. PST

Yes on some off my ancient Celts

79thPA Supporting Member of TMP13 Nov 2024 6:43 a.m. PST

Maybe 1 or 2. Tattoos are very hard to paint well, and mine are not painted well, which is why I tend to avoid them.

Robert le Diable13 Nov 2024 2:03 p.m. PST

Old Minifigs Napoleonic 15mm, "Engineers" or "Pontoniers" or something like that, one figure with shirt-sleeves rolled up. Recognisable bust-length tattoo of Napoleon, done in pale blue, very dilute, enamel paint. It's the hat that makes the image unmistakeable.

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