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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

The second to last squad is done. Only one more and the commanders to go.

Published 2014-12-17 22:01:00

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourgh¶

This week I managed to get in some painting time on 3 of 5 evenings as well as some hours today. The result of this is that only the webbing, rifle straps and helmets are missing.

Published 2014-11-29 21:58:00

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

Another squad done. As with the other squad, all the exposed flesh areas will be painted in one go across all the fire teams.

Published 2014-11-24 23:45:00

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourgh¶

Some progress on the Wehrmacht: The models got a basecoat with black with "VA74602 Vallejo Primer Black Acrylic-Polyurethane" applied through my Airbrush, followed by German Fieldgrey WWII. I then drybrushed the models in lightened up Fieldgrey.

Next I painted the Zeltbahnen, both the rolled up and worn as a poncho types.

Reinforcements top left area.

Reinforcements basecoated in Fieldgrey.

Highlighted Fieldgrey and Zeltbahnen painted.

Published 2014-11-16 20:57:00

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[15mm IABSM]¶
North of Caen¶

The British got completely based, basecoated in "VA74602 Vallejo Primer Black Acrylic-Polyurethane" with my Airbrush, and then sprayed from slightly above angles to create the first shading with 70.921 English Uniform from Vallejo.

Published 2014-11-08 11:34:00

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Imperial Flush Space Marines¶

After only three month, the next fire team is done.

At this rate it will only take me another year for the whole force...

Published 2014-11-08 10:49:00

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

The US Army models got basecoated in black with "VA74602 Vallejo Primer Black Acrylic-Polyurethane" applied through my Airbrush.

The bare metal models I de-flashed and (temporarily based) two days later, being part of the reinforcements I orderd from Peter Pig.

Published 2014-11-03 20:00:00

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[6mm]¶
A gaming board in a weekend¶

The buildings were base coated in grey, then the lower half was sprayed white in preparation of the yellow coat that followed. After the yellow was dry, I placed a 1mm tape strip around the building, and then sprayed a dark brown coat over it. This was then covered by a 2mm tape strip, placed (theoretically) centrally on the 1mm strip. Then the building was sprayed in a sand colour, and received two drybrushs.

Then it was time to remove the tape strips... drumroll...

Well, the two buildings on the left turned out as intended, with the two buildings on the left I did not place the strips correctly... :-(

The board was drybrushed in the base colour, then in sand and finally in white.

The hills were painted in anthracite grey, then drybrushed in a brown grey and finally in white. The sand areas were painted the same way as the board.

Published 2014-08-10 16:49:00

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourgh¶

The Wehrmacht troops were first given a basecoat with Vallejo Primer Black Acrylic-Polyurethane, then given a spray from ~40Â°+ with Valejo German Fieldgrey WWII. The angle also created the first shading, by leavig the downward areas black.

Published 2014-07-20 22:40:00

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[Airbrush]¶
Figure holder device¶

When airbrushing (especially base coating) my models, this is usually done in two steps.

Take the miniature by the base and airbrush from the waist to the head. Let dry.
Take the miniature by the head and airbrush from the waist down to the base.

So I need to touch every mini twice, and my hand usually is also black (or grey, or whatever) afterwards.

With my current 15mm WWII project, I have quite a lot of miniatures to base coat, so I thought of a better solution. Here is my clever contraption:

I bought a square wooden rod, some screws, and two metallic plates (whatever the technical term might be) as well as a couple of different sized magnets. I cut the rod to have 14cm either side of the 14cm wide plate, rounded the edges outside the width of the plate first with a rasp, then with two different grains of sanding paper, and screwed the plate in place.

Now I can place magnets on the plate fitting the size of washer a miniature is based on, grip the device on the sides and spray the miniatures without getting paint on my hands. I can also turn the miniature every which way to reach every undercut with the airbrush.