June 2010 – Page 4 – lighteffect.net

June 11, 2010September 16, 2015

Dryads

Three of my 12 ‘new school’ painted dryads. I have another 12 unpainted and 5 painted but ‘old school’ dryads. Paint scheme is the generic brown. I’ve looked at all the other schemes that people have used but I still think this looks the best, though I’m tempted to try something else on the next 12. I tried to drybrush them but had to give up for several reasons and highlight them normally. One because the limbs are so smooth you just end up painting them rather than picking up the lifted areas, and then of course you get that chalky messy look that you can get with drybrushing. And two because the blighters are so thin in places you run a serious risk of breaking them if you are a little absent minded and place to much pressure on them. I also left the eyes white because well, I think it looks better than painting them red or yellow. White stands out and looks equally demonic.

June 10, 2010September 16, 2015

Ork Warboss

My latest effort in the 28mm scale. My son James likes Or(c/k)s whether it’s fantasy or 40k. So when we saw the 40k box set on sale, and given that I already have something of an orc army in fantasy we bought it. This is the first figure to be painted from that box.

Whilst I was really hoping to turn out an absolutely perfect model first up this unsurprisingly didn’t eventuate. However if I’m fair I don’t think there is another single model that I have painted that is better than it. So whilst the change in some of my habits, tools and techniques hasn’t exactly yielded perfection I think it has certainly made a difference for the better.

The painting scheme, like most of my stuff is based on the GW paint scheme, though it’s not an exact copy having changed a few minor things and colours. I really wanted to do the black and white checks even though I was pretty unsure about them. Some are better than others. I did the power claw first and the loin cloth last and I think you can see that on the model with a progression toward executing the pattern more accurately. I’m also very happy with the skin and the face. Not counting cleaning, assmebly and undercoating the model took about 27 hours work, which even for me who is slow is getting up there. Of course I do watch TV whilst painting which means things take me about twice as long as they probably should. I think as is often the way the picture doesn’t reflect the model as well as in real life (both good and bad), I’ll try to retake it with a better light source.

June 9, 2010September 16, 2015

Sherman VC (Firefly)

One of my three Sherman Fireflys… fireflies?… VCs. Adds some decent punch to the Cromwell platoons giving me a taste of what it might be like to run proper tanks like the Germans and the Russians. The photo doesn’t look much, actually these closeups of my flames of war stuff are rather disappointing particularly when compared to the Games Workshop stuff. Granted it’s only half the scale but I think I could and should do better, it’s just that it’s not as fun to paint. Anyway, will go back at some point and fix all my british armour up, add stowage and the like and well some more coats of varnish on the tracks.