[Battlestar Galactica]¶
Daybreak Expansion Miniatures¶

These models were quite quickly painted.

[Battlestar Galactica] Raptors

The Raptors were basecoated, then drybrushed. Afterwards, the cockpit and weapon/engines were painted and given a wash. Finally, the exhausts were painted in two shades of blue.

• Hull
  • 70.880 Khaki Grey
  • 70.819 Iraqui Sand drybrush
• Canopy
  • 70.863 Dark Seagreen
  • Baddab Black Wash
• Engine/Weapons
  • 70.991 Dark Sea Grey
  • Baddab Black Wash
• Engine Fire
  • 70.902 Azur
  • 70.961 Sky Blue

[Battlestar Galactica] Cylons

The cylons were even easier: based in chrome, washed in black and highlighted in chrome. Then a red dot for the eye.

• 71.064 Chrome
• 73.201 Black Wash
• 71.064 Chrome
• 70.908 Carmine Red (Eye)

Images

Published 2015-08-01 10:45:26

Battlestar Galactica | Board Game | Fantasy Flight Games

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[Frag]¶
Board and Miniatures¶

I started to paint the miniatures. I started by painting the suits of the EM-4 Troopers in Vallejo 70.836 London Grey. I worked on 8 models, as I only have 8 of the clamps.

The next step was to paint the body armour in the player's colour. This I painted at the same time on the EM-4 as well as the orginal Steve Jackson miniature.

Published 2015-08-01 10:36:13

EM-4 Miniatures | Frag | Steve Jackson Games

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[Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules]¶
Squat Stunty Scout¶

Prime night! The scout was airbrushed with Vallejo surface primer black 28.012, now he is ready to be painted.

Published 2015-07-30 10:54:35

28mm | Games Workshop | SiFi | Squats | Warfork 40.000 - Rogue Rules

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[Modern]¶
Shotgun Joe¶

Prime night! Joe was airbrushed with Vallejo surface primer black 28.012, now he is ready to be painted.

Published 2015-07-30 10:53:55

2010's | 28mm | Warlord Games

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[Fury of Dracula]¶
Miniatures¶

Prime night! I have this game since 2009, ever since I wanted to paint these models. I basecoated with the airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012, now they are ready to be painted.

Published 2015-07-30 10:53:21

Board Game | Fantasy Flight Games | Fury of Dracula

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[Frag]¶
Board and Miniatures¶

Prime night! I basecoated both the Steve Jackson as well as the EM-4 models by airbrushing Vallejo surface primer black 28.012, now they are ready to be painted.

In the background you can see the Hirst Art molds, the plaster drying from the latest cast.

Published 2015-07-30 10:52:51

EM-4 Miniatures | Frag | Hirst Arts | Steve Jackson Games

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[Battlestar Galactica]¶
Daybreak Expansion Miniatures¶

Prime night! I got the expansion a couple of weeks ago, since then the models waited to be painted. I basecoated with the airbrush and Vallejo surface primer black 28.012, now they are ready to be painted.

Published 2015-07-30 10:52:13

Battlestar Galactica | Board Game | Fantasy Flight Games

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[15mm IABSM]¶
South of Cherbourg¶

Prime night! I primed the latest reinforcements to the US Army by airbrushing Vallejo surface primer black 28.012, now the whole force is ready to be painted.

Published 2015-07-30 10:51:41

15mm | 1940's | Airbrush | IABSM3 | Peter Pig Miniatures | Too Fat Lardies | US Army | WWII

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[Frag]¶
Board and Miniatures¶

While casting the molds 1-2 times a day to build up the needed number of squares, I removed the mold lines from the EM-4 miniatures in parallel.

I will not use the backpacks supplied with the models, as these fighters are not on a campaign, but on short arena fights. This leaves them with big holes in their backs, though...

To cover these I printed the following quite simple geometric forms on slighty thicker than usual paper

and glued two stacked pieces to each back to represent the body armour.

For the planned way to base the models, the bar below the feet is not helpful, so I removed it. Insted, I inserted a paper pin in one foot of each model. They will first be used to hold the model while being painted, later cut down and used to secure the model in the base.

The paper armour was then sealed with gloss varnish, before rinsing the models in warm soapy water to remove any casting residues.

Published 2015-07-28 11:00:51

EM-4 Miniatures | Frag | Hirst Arts | Steve Jackson Games

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[Terrain]¶
Modular Fence System¶

In our recent game (and first ever) of Warfork Fantasy Battles - Warhammer for Adults it became apparent that my supply of linear obstacles is quite limited - the walls you see on the photos in the AAR are all that I have. Among them only three corner pieces and no gates. Also, I do not have any sections to represent destroyed parts - which would have been of use with the cannon rules. Besides, these walls were done around 1998 - a time when my skill was a lot less developed than today.

Lets do some terrain!

What I do not like about many linear obstacles that you find pictures of online or which are even available to buy, is to recognize them as linear wargame modules. To illustrate what I mean lets take a look at the first fences I built for Warhammer 40,000 many many years ago:

The way the fence posts are placed is not as you would find them in reality, the posts would be evenly spaced, not two near each other as where two sections meet in the model fence.

So when designing my new fantasy fences, I thought of how to design them to disguise the obvious joins of the sections. The joins will be visible anyway, as there will be a physical join and I probably will not manage to line them up perfectly - what I am trying to achieve is to not have the joins obvious at first glance.

In the end I settled for the following design (designed in OpenSCAD):

The idea is, that the half posts on both ends join up to form a full post, like in the following two pictures:

The balsa wood for the posts and logs is ordered, the base plates I plan to get from the local DIY store. I will ask for sheets of 5mm MDF in 6" width - this way all the sections will have the same width. The long sides I will then cut by hand to get them in irregular shapes.

Let's see how this will turn out.

Published 2015-07-28 10:28:34

28mm | Fantasy | Linear Obstacle | OpenSCAD | Terrain

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