I made a post here once where I detailed the painting process for another miniature:

http://www.haslo.ch/blog/revenants-painted-step-by-step/

Your idea doesn’t sound bad at all, and although personally I’m not a huge fan of dipping for my own minis, it’s a very good start into painting and makes things look good from the start.

My own technique is a black primer, then I paint regions in a color slightly darker than what I want them to be, then alternate drybrushing and washing until it looks just like I want it to. This takes anywhere from 2 to 10 layers of color. I rarely mix colors, and very, very rarely highlight with a lighter color without drybrushing – I mostly only use this technique for faces and other very fine details.

This one here was 8-10 layers of color for the skin. The alternating washing and drybrushing really brought out quite some structure and made the skin look pretty three-dimensional.

http://www.haslo.ch/blog/mancubus-prototype/

My own miniatures are all base coated black and not white. This means that I’ll need multiple layers of some light colors like yellow to make them stand out and not look too brown, or a white base underneath them, but it gives a nice gritty look to the miniatures and, if I forget to paint some hidden crevasse, it’s already as dark as it’s supposed to be in the final product.

Did you start painting already? Do you have any results to show?

I consider priming with white, basecoat, drybrush and then dipp (actually splash-on) with Armypainter Quickshade (soft tone) and finally spray with anti-shine. I know this might not be the most sophisticated way, but since this will be my first paint job it could give me a flying start.

What do you think?