Advice Needed on How to Paint Miniatures Books

[bfmusashi]

My wife wants to join me in the miniatures hobby and I could use a decent book on technique. Has anyone tried the Privateer Press DVD or had experience with the How to Paint Citadel Miniatures book? Is there another book that would be worth picking up instead? I'd greatly prefer a book to online tutorials as we may be losing internet access once we move.
She has her FA but has never worked at this scale before and while I've been painting minis longer I'm not much better than passable.

[fuzzbuket]

the GW 'eavy metal masterclass' is really good, and CMON has a treasure trove of articals BUT the best thing to help you paint is practice*


-fuzz

*and spend hours drooling over CMON :P

[armbarred]

Miniature Mentor has a host of really good tutorial vids, I encourage you to look at them. The PP volume 1 dvd is a good starting point for a new-to-the-hobby person.

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[DrBored]

The new GW How to Paint Citadel Miniatures book is great for beginners, and has a few neat tips and tricks for experienced painters too. It's a bit pricey (about 50 bucks) but it has a nice DVD that covers all the different techniques that painters use in the beginning. I bought it with no regrets.

[Lane]

The Dark Sword Miniatures painting video with Jen Haley and Anne Foerster is very good.
Note: they have 3-4 videos for sale on their site, this is the one without a person on the cover.
http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/mainwebsite_html/gallery/DarkSwordDVD.html

It covers everything from basic model prep to advanced techniques. I've been painting for years and still learned things from the basic chapters.

[Meph]

Here are also some interesting dvd's.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/dvds

[Brakkart]

Here are also some interesting dvd's.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/dvds

I have the Miniature Painting with Jen Haley DVD set and it is very good. Her advice on how to paint faces really helped me with a figure I did recently and I'm keen to have a go at some of the other techniques she shows off, such as a very simple and effective way to do wet blending.

[lomaxxdurang]

I have the Miniature Painting with Jen Haley DVD set and it is very good. Her advice on how to paint faces really helped me with a figure I did recently and I'm keen to have a go at some of the other techniques she shows off, such as a very simple and effective way to do wet blending.

http://www.amazon.com/F-A-Q-Frequently-Questions-Techniques-Modelling/dp/849652762X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336714593&sr=8-1

[Deadlift]

The new GW How to Paint Citadel Miniatures book is great for beginners, and has a few neat tips and tricks for experienced painters too. It's a bit pricey (about 50 bucks) but it has a nice DVD that covers all the different techniques that painters use in the beginning. I bought it with no regrets.

I bought this out of interest too, Its not bad. A great buy for someone starting out and I recommend it.

[Bored Lyron]

What you should get depends very much on what is the aim of the painting. For basic painting "How to paint Citadel Miniatures" and "'Eavy Metal Masterclass" from GW will do nicely.

However if your wife is more interested in making great looking pieces instead of painting gaming miniatures, I would second the recommendation of Miniature Mentor. While they are an online resource, you can pay their subscription service, download all their tutorials (there are a LOT of them) and then end the subscription after the first month. This way you would have an offline source of 80+ hours of material on painting and sculpting available whenever you want it.