But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish, it's entirely up to you  Anyway  when you paint, like I say, it's just it's because it's porous  it sucks the colour off the brush and er  it immediately dries, so you can see, straight away, the colour it's gonna be  when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and  so it brings the colour up but it won't be shiny  or a shine, which you're gonna choose  like you might wanna matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell  which ca it really brings the colour up, we won't get round to varnishing today  erm  and the other thing you can do, if you want  erm  a sort of a mottled effect  you do pink in a base colour  say Mikila wanted all  greeny, bluey colours on that 