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[1941]¶
Wehrmacht, motorisierter AufklÃ¤rungszug¶

I finished the last group of the foot soldiers:

Next up are the vehicles, still in the state that I left them on the shelf several years ago:

Published 2013-11-02 16:32:00

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[RoboRally]¶
Bots¶

I finished the 8 Bots, just in time for the first game with this box tomorrow. It was a lot of fun to paint these and a welcome change from painting 'serious' models, with their cartoonish character, big eyes, etc.

Published 2013-11-02 21:21:00

Avalon Hill | Board Game | RoboRally

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[2003]¶
Insurgents¶

I forced myself to bring the painting of this group of models to an end this weekend, so here is the last batch.

Took long enough...

Published 2013-11-10 21:35:00

15mm | 2000's | Insurgents | Rebel Miniatures

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[Dreadball]¶
Lumber Rodents¶

Next project is my third Dreadball team - the Veer-myn.

For them I decided on a painting technique I wanted to try for a long time: pre-shading.

I will try to build up the shadows with grey tones, and then apply only inks and washes to colour the models, leaving the pre-shading showing through. Let's see how this will turn out...

I started by applying a base coat of Vallejo 71.097 Base Grey with my airbrush, followed by a wash of 1/2 water and 1/2 Vallejo 72.094 Black.

When this was dry, I started by drybrushing 72.050 Cold Grey.

This was all for now, but will be followed by 3 more drybrushing stages.

Published 2013-11-11 23:00:00

28mm | Dreadball | Mantic Games | Pre-Shading

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[Dreadball]¶
Lumber Rodents¶

The pre-shading is done. I followed up with

Vallejo 70.870 Medium Sea Grey
Vallejo 70.989 Sky Grey
Vallejo 70.951 White

Next up is applying the washes.

If you have any experience with this technique, please feel free to share your experience in the comments.

Published 2013-11-15 21:08:00

28mm | Dreadball | Mantic Games | Pre-Shading

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[Dreadball]¶
Lumber Rodents¶

The test model is done. I used the following paints:

SWW008 Baby Poop for the skin, two coats
SWW019 Ruby for the hair, this will be alternated per model
SWW029 Fallout for the armour, three coats
SWW020 Orange, shoulder guards etc
SWW009 Sewer Water, leather glove
SWW017 Purple, tail
White, re-highlight top of tail segments
SWW026 Cotton Candy, tail
SWW006 Parchment, bandages, mask
Vallejo 73.203 Umber Shade, bandages, mask
SWW025 Just Red, eyes
SWW003 Armour Wash, metal
Vallejo 71.063 Silver, highlight metal areas
White, teeth and claws
SWW017 watered down, teeth and claws
Vallejo 72.094 Black, blacklining where some more definition is needed

The result is totally different to any miniature I painted so far, using only inks; but I like the effect. The other rodents will be painted like this model.

Published 2013-11-16 13:03:00

28mm | Dreadball | Mantic Games | Pre-Shading

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[Dreadball]¶
Lumber Rodents¶

The next four models are done. I still like the result and this new (for me) way of painting, but what is annoying is the longer drying time of the inks between coats.

Published 2013-11-19 00:27:00

28mm | Dreadball | Mantic Games | Pre-Shading

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[1941]¶
Wehrmacht, motorisierter AufklÃ¤rungszug¶

The vehicles and riders are done so far, now I only need to add the rank markings and finish the bases. I am still thinking on what to do with the motorcycles basewise... do my own and fail miserable to make them look like the bases for the foot soldiers, including only roughly round edges... a 'crossbeam' on the underside from some clear rod... Any suggestions?

Published 2013-11-24 22:14:00

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[1941]¶
Wehrmacht, motorisierter AufklÃ¤rungszug¶

All Soldaten were promoted :-) Here some examples:

This recce unit is now done except the mentioned bases.

Published 2013-11-25 21:47:00

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Orks Marauders¶

My next project for my lunch breaks will be some SiFi Orks from Mantic Games. I ordered them on 08.11.2011 ... only two years ago. I have them assembled and ready for painting since about 1.5 years... you know, one of those fast side projects... about time to get some colour on them!

Here is the whole bunch:

This looks a bit like chaos, which would only be fitting for Orks, but the composition of the mobs is already planned.

Here is the Waaagh! Boss and the Nobs leading the mobs:

All models that did not have a backplate, got some modeled with putty. I really like all the fluff from the good old Rogue Trader Ork books, one of which is that all Orks wear backplates showing their allegiance. The newer GW models unfortunately do not all posess some, also the Mantic Orks don't have them on all models.

To get some variety to the support weapons (there is only one with the Mantic sprues), I did some scratchbuilding. In my bits box I found some bombs and fuel pods from 1/72 scale plastic models, which I used here.