Friday 7 June 2013

Assorted Painting

Hey Internet,

I did some painting and thought I'd blog it up.

First up, a large siege howitzer for my Russian Colonial project. Its a foundry model from their Franco-Prussian war range. It used to be painted a nasty blue, but now its a nice green.
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I've also been expanding my minor horde of Russian infantry over the last few weeks...
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and adding to my assortment of 'other Victorian and vsf things'.....an Automaton....Nicola Tesla....the Tsar of all of Russia.....Miss Marple.....
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Ive also got a pair of 1/2400th scale Ironclads painted, the HMS Dreadnought and the HMS Ajax. Both are new models from Tumbling Dice, and are really rather nice. The Ajax in particular.
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My last little effort to show off is a bit of an odd ball really - a space ship. Ive not done any space ship gaming in yonks (at least 5 years!), but I saw this model a bit roughed up at the bottom of a box and thought Id give it a lick of paint. Ive had the model for ages. I think its a Battletech something-or-other, not sure what thought.
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Using my crappy, highly dangerous Dremel like thing that I got from Lidil ages ago I mounted it on a nice acrylic flying stand (from Spartan Games).
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Its Green with green and red bits because I watched an old episode of Star Trek recently and felt like painting something up vaguely Kingony.
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I'll need to play some Full Thrust now....


MM.

5 comments:

  1. Nice wourk all round sir. Especially nice wourk on ajax and dreadnought, how do you do the shadeing round the edge of the white?

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  2. Hey 'ofdiceandtinymen'. Thanks for the kind words. I paint the white starting with a light grey, progressively adding more white as I highlight them up, then go round the edges of turrets and other big flat areas with a heavily watered down pure white edge highlight.

    MM.

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  3. Nice thanks for the info I'll give it a go on mine. I was trying somthing similar but this looks better

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    1. Glad to help - I'll look forward to seeing them ;). I just clicked had a look at your blog - your ships look far better than mine!

      MM.

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    2. Dont no about that but I'm having a lot of fun painting them :)

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