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PJDeluhery:
Welcome to our corner of the world. Good luck in your painting. Since you are comfortable with acrylics, no reason to change. No need to paint both sides if only one side is seen.

Hannibal:
I only paint one side of the flats .. the side seen when set in a frame. Most dioramas seen from one side require not more than one side painted.  The other side is usually painted in matte black (acrylic) to prevent any shiny spot or brillance from the edge.


Many people are painting wih oil colours, but Spanish painters are more likely using acrylics, and mastering this painting ver, very well. Advantage is also that the paint is drying very fast.
I swithched from acrylic to oil, nice to handle, but long drying tiles, and colour shifteing when blending colours in the days after wet painting ....
It is a matter of habit, and expérience from before, or club/school on learning the technics...


I undercoat large flats with coloured acrylic painting on the primary layer (acrylic clear tone or Hymbrol double diluted layers) to pre-colour the flat and so reduce the amount of oil needed after (quicker drying too), or for glazings with oil . For small flats, directly oil, the firt layer slightly delited with turpentine of white spirit...( to have quicker drying for next layer and respect the fat on mager rule.

John Alberts:
S. Barriere at www.figurines-soldats.com has Napoleonic sets as well from the Segom line.  Cannot go wrong at Berliner Zinnfiguren.

Brian:
With Napoleonic's you are spoilt for choice!  Have a look in links at the top of the page and click vendors and your find Berliner Zinnfiguren


Paint is up to you, most use Oil as I do but also acrylics,  with a frame or box dioramas you only see one side so that's all you need to detail.
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barryw:
Hi all,
I recently came across some flat figures I bought and started painting back in the mid 1980s and this has renewed my interest in acquiring and painting flat figures.
My main area of interest is the Napoleonic era, although I do have a few ancients and Medieval figures awaiting painting.
At present I am trying to identify some of the figures I have acquired recently and preparing them for painting. 
"Back in the day" I used oil paints as that was the recommended medium to use now I am planning to use acrylics as I use them for painting Discworld figures and my model railway figures. What type of paints do other collectors use now?
Also I am planning to set up some dioramas in modified picture frames, so my question is should I only paint the side seen by the viewer in order to save time or both?
Barry
 

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