# Advice for starting Miniature Painting?

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**Created:** [September 28, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-starting-miniature-painting/597854 "2011-09-28T05:54:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-for-starting-miniature-painting/597854/21 "2011-10-11T19:06:36Z")

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When I’m painting an intricate surface with a base coat, I do the first layer with really thin paint so that it will run into the cracks. Once that’s dry, I follow up with thicker paint (which might still be thinned a little, just thicker than the original “infiltration coat”). A lot of my bases have parts with sand or ballast glued down then primed. This is the best place for a very thin initial coat so that you don’t go crazy trying to paint sand with regular paint.

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