Dr Who & Fallschirmjaeger Mortar Team

This is what I spent the last few days of last week working on.  My Dr Who, David Tennant figure.  He’s 28mm scale, fortunately the same size as all my WH stuff.  He was quite easy to paint except for the coat.  Leprous Brown is essentially a dirty yellow and as a consequence is a right annoyance to paint.  I did a pretty rubbish job on it and had to give up when I realised I was starting to fill in the folds in the coat.  Otherwise though I’m pretty happy with him.  Basecoated him in scorched brown which worked well (though not as well as I’d hoped for the coat).  Did the base with green stuff which I scoured into a kinda cobblestone pattern.  All in all a reasonably successful effort I feel.

Oh and this was supposed to be a series of four shots two from in front and two from behind of my 6 FJ mortar teams, however the others were blurry, so I’ll have to redo them.  In the meantime here is the back of one of the teams.

Currently I’m painting an Ork Defkopta, though Saturday night I spent time cleaning and assembling my Tiger 2s.  Look great, sadly ran out of paint when I was undercoating them so will have to come back to them.

Mounted Lord

A mounted wood elf lord.  What can I say, it is my least favourite model (with perhaps the exception of Ariel).  The horse is nice, I like the horse, always have despite it’s rather cartoonish appearance.  The figure… well where to start.  Not a great sculpt very 2 dimensional with an arm out either side holding a weapon.  A big crested helmet with no other piece of armour whatsoever save a biggish belt.  Then there is my paint job, terrible drybrush highlighting of the blue cloak to start with and then for some god awful reason I thought green gloves and boots would look good with yellow YELLOW clothes and a blue cloak.  I’m a guy, I’m not particularly colour sensitive but even to me this is a horror.  This is one model that I will happily repaint.  I dislike it intensely.  But it is posted here as a historical record of something I will hopefully find the time at some point to expunge.

US infantry 2x Companies Part 2

OK decided to do a full test figure before going holas bolas into the production line.

Steps are:

Base coats over black undercoat leaving the valleys

Ink coat

High light by dry brush.

And the example is here:

Base coated only photos above

Base coated and inked photos above

Base coated, inked and drybrush hi-lited above

So there you have it.

I’m happy with the result this gives.  A good tabletop paint job.

Plenty of room for errors with the brush which the shading and hi-lite errodes away.

I will have to get the helmet paint better though.. perhaps some flow medium.

I’m excited now that I see some results.. I think I should paint a trial fig on every project… just for the fun of it.

Night everyone 🙂