[Eclipse]¶
Mechanema¶

We played Eclipse for the last couple of times with our boardgame group of people, so I thought it was about time to get the miniatures painted.

The Mechanema are the white player aliens. When looking at their portrait, I immediately thought turquoise tinted white. And that is how I painted them.

I basecoated them in 73.601 Grey Primer applied through my airbrush, then sprayed them in 1:10 71.001 White : 72.024 Falcon Turquoise.

They were then drybrushed white, and then got some white highlights painted on where the drybrush was not enouh.

Metal areas were painted 71.073 Black.

The windows I painted in

• 72.015 - Hexed Lichen
• 72.014 - Warlord Purple
• 72.013 - Squid Pink

I then painted a dark spot with SWW002 Heavy Body Black over the Hexed Lichen, and added a white dot to represent light reflection.

The models were then sprayed with gloss varnish and had a Winsor and Newton Lamp Black oil wash (mixed with Sansodor) applied, which was afterwards rubbed off the high areas with qtips and Sansodor.

Finally, the models were sealed with matt varnish.

Published 2016-02-15 08:05:50

Airbrush | Boardgame | Eclipse | Lautapelit

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[Warfork Fantasy Battles]¶
Dwarf Reinforcements¶

The axemen are done except for the bases and shields.

Published 2016-02-15 07:50:01

28mm | Dwarves | em4miniatures | Instant Mould | Ral Partha | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[Warfork Fantasy Battles]¶
Dwarf Reinforcements¶

Some progress on the axemen.

Published 2016-01-25 08:49:10

28mm | Dwarves | em4miniatures | Instant Mould | Ral Partha | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[Birthday Present]¶
Kalweit¶

I spent about another 12 hours on Sunday on the diorama, finishing it at 0:30. After the matt varnish dried over night, all that was left to do in the morning was gluing the plastic base to the wooden base.

Thanks to DHL's reluctance to do their job, it was pretty tight finishing the present in time. I had not two full days instead of two weeks I could have worked on the base.

Due to the time pressure I did not take many notes concerning colours used.

 

I covered the joints in putty to represents the connecting pieces. The chimney was then pinned to the wood beam for added stability.

 

The coals were first painted in 70.951 white.

 

I then painted 71.002 Yellow over it. Due to the white the yellow is more vibrant.

 

Leaving the yellow in the recesses, I painted the higher areas in 72.009 Hot Orange

 

The final layer was done 72.155 Heavy Charcoal, representing the coldest part of the coals.

 

After gluing the miniatures into place, I used plaster to hide their integral bases before gluing fine bird cage sand below the roof and coarser sand around the building.

 

From 0.4mm brass wire I created the chain links for the business sign.

 

The roof was done from strips of shingles cut from card.

 

After applying the matt varnish, I painted the inside of the water bucket with gloss varnish again, to make it shine and look wet.

The finished present

Published 2016-01-18 10:46:03

28mm | Diorama | Foundry Miniatures | Present

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[Birthday Present]¶
Kalweit¶

Finally, only two weeks late, I have the glass dome - not that DHL delivered it, I had to fetch it from the post office - not that DHL informed me it was there or even tried to deliver it to my home first...

Now the challenge now is to build all of the diorama in 1.5 days... Thank you DHL.

The first test positioning:

I cut a circle from plastic card on to which I will mount the diorama, to prevent to get colour or stuff onto the wood.

I settled for an open sided shed as the Kalweit's workshop, of which a small edge is represented by the diorama. I conctructed the beams and glued them into place.

The smithy itself is missing a chimney, and my beam construction only has two vertical supports - so the chimney will form the third for added stability. I cut three pieces from wood rod, and inserted pins.

Published 2016-01-16 10:11:12

28mm | Diorama | Foundry Miniatures | Present

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[Birthday Present]¶
Kalweit¶

I finished the horses equipment.

Published 2016-01-15 09:11:28

28mm | Diorama | Foundry Miniatures | Present

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[Birthday Present]¶
Kalweit¶

Today I painted the horse. Time gets short (Birthday is on Monday), and there is some trouble with DHL and delivering the glas dome... let's see...

Horse

• Lower Inner Body

  • 70.877 Goldbrown

  • 70.877 Goldbrown

    &

    70.951 White

    (3 steps with more white added)

• Body Colour Transition

  • 70.877 Goldbrown

    &

    70.981 Orange Brown

    (4 steps with more Orange Brown added)

• Upper Body

  • 70.981 Orange Brown

  • 72.091 Sepia

    &

    70.596 Glaze Medium

    (applied as thin glaze in 4 layers, each layer receeding towards the top)

  • 70.981 Orange Brown

    (dots)

  • 70.981 Orange Brown

    &

    70.951 White

    (added more white in 3 steps, each time smaller dots)

  • 72.091 Sepia

    &

    70.596 Glaze Medium

    (applied as thin glaze to mute pale dots)

• Hooves

  • 72.042 Parasite Brown

  • 72.034 Bone White

    (applied as vertical stripes)

  • 73.203 Umber Shade

    &

    70.596 Glaze Medium

    (applied as 4 thin glazes)

  • 72.034 Bone White

    (applied as vertical stripes within the first stripes)

• Hair

  • 70.950 Black

  • 70.986 Deck Tan

    drybrush

  • 73.201 Black Wash
• Black Legs
  • 70.950 Black
  • 72.155 Charcoal Black

• White Markings

  • 70.986 Deck Tan

  • 70.986 Deck Tan

    &

    70.951 White

  • 70.951 White

Published 2016-01-14 11:20:34

28mm | Diorama | Foundry Miniatures | Present

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[Birthday Present]¶
Kalweit¶

The hair of the Kalweit was painted:

• 70.821 German C. Beige WWII
• 70.858 Ice Yellow

Bucket

• Wood

  • 70.984 Flat Brown
  • 70.929 Light Brown

  • 70.856 Ochre Brown

    &

    70.858 Ice Yellow

• Rope
  • 70.882 Middlestone
  • 70.917 Beige

• Water

  • 70.816 Luftwaffe Uniform WWII

  • 70.816 Luftwaffe Uniform WWII

    &

    70.844 Deep Sky Blue

  • 70.844 Deep Sky Blue
  • 70.961 Sky Blue

Anvil

• Wood
  • 70.984 Flat Brown
  • 70.822 German C. Black Brown
  • 70.975 Military Green
  • 70.986 Deck Tan
  • 72.091 Sepia

• Metal

  • 71.069 Rust

    &

    71.065 Steel

  • 71.065 Steel

Published 2016-01-12 10:23:48

28mm | Diorama | Foundry Miniatures | Present

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[Warfork Fantasy Battles]¶
Dwarf Reinforcements¶

Except for the shields, the unit of spearmen is done.

Published 2016-01-12 10:23:21

28mm | Dwarves | em4miniatures | Ral Partha | Warfork Fantasy Battles

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[Birthday Present]¶
Kalweit¶

The Kalweit himself is nearly done, only the hair is to be painted.

• Shirt
  • 70.976 Buff
  • 70.837 Pale Saand
  • 70.951 White_
• Socks
  • 70.837 Pale Saand
  • 70.951 White

• Apron

  • 70.871 Leather Brown
  • 73.201 Black Wash
  • 70.871 Leather Brown

  • 70.871 Leather Brown

    &

    72.040 Cobra Leather

  • 72.040 Cobra Leather
• Skin
  • 70.872 Chocolate Brown
  • 70.804 Beige Red
  • 72.703 Pale Flesh
• Shoes
  • 70.984 Flat Brown
  • 72.091 Sepia
  • 70.984 Flat Brown
• Trousers
  • 70.985 Hull Red
  • 72.091 Sepia
  • 70.985 Hull Red
  • 70.814 Burnt Cad. Red

• Tools, metal

  • 71.065 Steel

  • 73.203 Umber Shade

    &

    73.201 Black Wash

• Tools, wood

  • 70.941 Burnt Umber

  • 70.875 Beige Brown

    (stripes)

  • 70.876 Brown Sand

    (stripes within the Beige Brown stripes)

  • 70.941 Burnt Umber

    (redefine grain, cross through some of the lighter stripes)

Published 2016-01-11 10:35:45

28mm | Diorama | Foundry Miniatures | Present

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