I am now stuck. Painting squads and my dry brush technique sucks. Practice practice yes but if you have bad technique you want improve. Anyone have tuts on doing squads and dry brush on flat surfaces?

Go to your FLGS, look for Warhammer 40K magazines, they always have examples to look at and even tips and examples on how to paint miniatures.

That is where I began to learn, or contact Vykes or others on this site, they are far better than I am.

Shane

I very rarely dry brushing (and hate it even though I acknowledge it is occasionally useful and do use it), so you can get by without dry brushing altogether. My only dry brushing is the cockpit window bars on imperial squads (for squads), so entirely possible to just say 'nope' if you don't want to. The result of painting is also more vibrant, typically.

A messy but decent solution when you insist on dry brushing, test stroke the back of your hand to make sure it is ready if you aren't sure. I also tend to use the side of the brush for it more than the point.

Don't use your good brushes when dry brushing.

http://www.rule37.net/2015/04/armada-tutorial-painting-red-squadron-x.html

This is the tutorial that inspired me to pick up my otherwise retired brush many, many moons ago. However, for those of you with hands that are not the steadiest in the world (understatement of the century for me personally), I can empathize with the frustration

If you happen to be good at graphic design, or are very patient, I am looking for help on a side project that might help all of us: adapting papercraft model print outs to Armada fighter decal skins. I think this is the final frontier when it comes to helping out people who get into this game for pre-paints!

Someone remind me to post WIP shots: as you can imagine, fine tuning the dimensions for such a project and simplifying some of these graphics is a tedious task, but one that I think will reap great reward.

Also, doN't start with X-Wings. They are the least detailed and the hardest to paint squadrons. Believe me, I'm talking from experience. Start with A-Wings or Z-95s, or B-Wings, they are much more forgiving with mistakes.