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Dry Brushing Take II

This evening I got the white coat brushed onto the base coated stuff from yesterday.

There is a definite change from yesterday, it is really noticeable on the red vehicle.

Tomorrow I will hopefully get some paint shoved on too.

WW Scenics had a bit of a sale on tufts, even though I have got my gear to make them I bought 400 of 10mm,  100 each of 6 and 4mm scorched grass. So this should do all of my Sci Fi stuff.

To be honest part of me fancies converting the wheeled vehicle into a fire engine for the chemical plant.

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Dry Brushing

This evening I cracked out the Artis Opus brushes and set to work dry brushing anything undercoated black.

As you can see the majority is grey apart from the wheeled vehicle. Bet you can’t guess what colour it is going to be.

I am wondering about this two tone approach. The base underpainting tone followed by the white and then the Speedpaints.  I should maybe do a test on a couple of identical miniatures. To be honest it is the time it takes for the paint to dry so it isn’t a huge additional amount of time…Not to mention that I don’t normally go down the underpainting route. In the past it would have been white undercoat and the speedpaint style paint over the top.

Hopefully I will get the white on there tomorrow and then onto the painting.

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Scouts Finished

This evening I got the scouts about as far as I can be bothered to get them.

They still need their insignia doing on the paldrons and their bases covered in sand.

I was considering free handing insignias and numbers but in reality waterside transfers will work well enough. Question is do I buy ready done ones or have a bash at doing my own on waterslide transfer paper.

I also got the last of the marines built this evening…

Who knows what type of squad they are meant to be… rule of cool wins here I believe 😁.

Six of them are already sprayed black. These will follow suit tomorrow.

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I Went With Orange

So I decided I would go with orange for the weapon casings. It sort of fitted with the red and yellow on the miniatures already. The brown I used for the combat knife had a bit of an orange hue to it too.

Maybe I should have gone with a different colour, but orange meant I did them tonight instead of faffing about trying to choose the ‘right’ colour.

I did most of the metalwork on them too. There is now very little white to cover.

Really just the face bits on them and dome pipes and pump action grips etc. Should hopefully have them finished tomorrow.

In different news, I managed to blag some free fake grass samples. They are round about 10 inches square. There are three different lengths so I will have a think what to do with them.

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A Productive Hour

This evening I slapped more paint on the scouts as well as built the ‘Chonker’ ready for undercoating tomorrow.

Still some work to do on the scouts, the problem I am having is the choice of weapon colour. Might go for an orange to complement the red/yellow combo I have going. An easy option would be black… I might fall back to it if needs be.

Hopefully I will be as semi productive tomorrow.

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Something Achieved

Well this evening I was a busy boy! I redid the new vehicle and added my own supports and they seem to be working, the first build plate was a success. This included failure pieces from yesterday.

I also did some posters for the terrain, first off they were far too big, so I had to shrink them down by 50%.

My nail art jewels came today to become rivets on the MDF terrain.

I also did some painting and glueing too…

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Not Much Achieved

Well, not sure why, but  I achieved very little this evening. Sliced a new vehicle to be abandoned as well as cleaned and cured a pile of things too.

Sadly the bloody print failed, it was too late to faff on with it so I will clean the tank tomorrow and add my own supports too as the miniature fell off the ones that came with the pre supports.

Hopefully I will get it sorted tomorrow.

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Next…

Abandoned vehicle on its way…

So in the above photo you can see the sacks and liquid containers. I still have to sort out the tote bags which are a similar size to the above. As I said o. An earlier post; I am going to cover the front with a tarpaulin. This will hide the solid plastic windows. Yes I probably could paint them, but it would be a right faff so I will hide them.

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Scouts Part II

Well it is probably ‘Scouts Pary IX, but never mind I managed to do a bit more on them.

So that is all the cloth done. My original idea was to do a green blanket, but as I had the black lotus handy I went with that. This is the colour I did the trousers in.

Still a long way to go, but getting there. 

I have got some ideas for the chapter name and had a mess around with a battle cry and motto in Latin.