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July 26, 2010September 16, 2015

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.

July 20, 2010July 23, 2010

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 🙂

July 19, 2010September 16, 2015

US infantry 2 x companies project – part 1

Ok I have started my 2 company boxes of US infantry.

I have cleaned them and glued them to card, undercoated them primer black with colorkote spray paint, which works wonderfully well.

I have painted the boot brown and now am painting the gaters and jacket.

I have started painting them my usual way that I use with germans in field grey.

That is I paint only the high spots in colour, followed by a lighter high light and then an ink wash.

I have tried this so far with th exception of removing the high light untill after the ink and replacing the high light application with a dry brush instead.

Now faced with about 80+ figures I have been contemplating taking a “short-cut”.

Tell me which one you think will look better in the table top.

us2a us2b

Model A

us1b us1a

Model B