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I'm looking for information a bit about the Reaper clear colours - are they more transparent or translucent? I'm looking more for a glaze I think type effect for my son's mortis engine (to make the ethereal smokey/fog stuff look ghostly). Would you recommend using something like the clear blue for that? Or is there another paint I should get. I should note I have the GW glazes, but I wanted a more brilliant blue, a more royal blue type colour than the blue glaze seems to do. thanks for any help! :D

Somewhere someone on this board used the clear tamiya paints on their translucent bones, I can't remember who it was offhand, and I tried it and have painted all of my translucent bones with this paint first. I though I'd show the difference that this paint makes on these figures by painting two fire elementals. I slathered Tamiya clear red onto both figures generously. Unlike most basecoats, a thick coat won't obscure details like regular paint would, it just take longer to dry. A word of warning, while this paint does clean up with water, it is still a solvent based paint and does hav