He learns the rules... just so he can BREAK THEM

When you're a bad-boy painter of little army mans like me, you don't play by the rules. This blatant disregard for the rules may seem exciting and sexy at first glance, but it can also lead you into trouble.

Take for example my recent bad-boy attempt to prime my army mans not by using the safe, established method of spray painting them, but instead by painting on gesso (developed for priming art canvases) using a brush. Other people on the internet have reported good results using it, but apparently my bad-boy brush technique is lacking:


I don't know which bothers me more - the streakiness of paint or the bubbles that formed in the recesses of his armor. This one isn't much better:


The black gesso is a bit better, but it filled in too much detail and the way the coat dried, it now has the consistency of pumice. Not really the effect I was going for.

What do I do with this minis now? Simple: strip the paint off of them. I picked up a bottle of Simple Green cleaning fluid which, according to the internet, is supposed to be good for stripping paint from plastic as well as metal miniatures, and we all know the internet is never wrong.


The Simple Green will go into a small plastic hummus container because there's nothing bad-boy miniature painters like more than hummus.

I'll be back soon to let you know how this experiment horribly backfired. ARMY MANS!!!