[15mm IABSM]¶
North of Caen¶

The stones are all painted and drybrushed. After this step, I went over the models again with Black and British Uniform to cover all the errors I did so far (mainly on the boots and lower legs due to the drybrushing of the bases), and repainted the helmets in Russian Uniform where the colour started to peel off.

As the peeling started, I now gave the models a coat of gloss varnish, to seal the current state. Especially the helmets, where I picked the models up mainly for doing all the bases, should be safe from chipping now.

Also, the gloss varnish will help the washes which are to follow to flow more easily.

British Infantry WWII

British Infantry WWII


[Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation]¶
Trazior Underhive¶

The wall sections are cleared of flash...

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as well as the tower levels.

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[15mm IABSM]¶
North of Caen¶

I highlighted the bases in my usual two drybrushs. The first

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does not really change the colour (only slightly), but dampens the brightness of the basecoat.

Here the second drybrush

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where you can also see the first individual stones painted.


[15mm IABSM]¶
North of Caen¶

I painted all the bases in the usual brown of my base style, paying extra attention to not get paint on the boots or the uniform of kneeling/prone models.

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[Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation]¶
Trazior Underhive¶

The girders supports were all deflashed, which took forever. The outsides were quickly done, but all the insides... When I was finally done I glued them together. I used Lego blocks and an additional baseplate loosely fitted on top to get them straight.

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The top row are the ones where I cut the pins in half, the lower row are with uncut pins. I am missing one girder, probably still in the big box...

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The support beams were just a matter of minutes to remove the flash.

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I now started with the wall section, which are quite quick compared to the girders, as there are only 4 smooth sides to deflash.

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[15mm IABSM]¶
North of Caen¶

I settled for 70.892 Yellow Olive for the support weapons, grenades, binoculars, etc.

The skin was painted 70.815 Basic Skintone.

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[Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation]¶
Trazior Underhive¶

I am quite far with my rules medley "Warfork 40,000 - Rogue Confrontation", a mix of the original Confrontation rules as published in White Dwarf, Stargrunt II (main mechanics), Necromunda (mainly the campaign stuff) and Rogue Trader 40,000. Far enough, that the first play test can happen soon - only over which terrain?

Time to use the plastics from the Maki Games Kickstarter to create parts of Trazior Underhive.

I sorted all the parts and started to remove the flash from the support beams.

Trazior Underhive The whole first batch.

Trazior Underhive The pins fill the complete height of the base plates. I can imagine layouts with walkways on the second story, where I would need to stack two support beam pieces - which would not be possible (see next picture). So I decided to cut the pins down to just below half length. This will lessen their hold, but allow stacking.

Trazior Underhive Top shows the original length pins, which are not stackable; the bottom shows the cut pins which stack nicely.

Trazior Underhive All the work done today. The pile in the lower right is the cut off plastic.


[15mm IABSM]¶
North of Caen¶

All weapons except the support weapons are painted:

  • Weapon Metal
    • 70.863 Gunmetal Grey

      &

      70.995 German Grey
  • Weapon Wood
    • 70.826 German Camo Medium Brown

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The support weapons (PIATs and mortars) as well as all the equipment like grenades, binoculars, radios etc. will be painted green. Searching for the right shade of green I camo across a multitude of descriptions, the colour also seems to has changed during the War. Adding to that the usual wear and tear, bleaching from the sun, field repairs with non-regulation paint etc., I figured any deepish-olivish-greenish shade will do.

I painted 4 testmodels, probably I will take on of the two shades of green on the right.

British Infantry WWII

British Infantry WWII


[Modern]¶
Characters¶

Peter

Last but not least, the smallest of the characters is done. Peter is only small, but really vicious with his crowbar, especially when he is angry!

  • Hair
    • 70.910 Orange Red
    • SWW021 Red Black
    • 70.910 Orange Red
    • 70.910 Orange Red

      &

      70.951 White
  • Skin
    • 70.815 Basic Skintone
    • SWW030 Golden Brown
    • 70.815 Basic Skintone
    • 70.815 Basic Skintone

      &

      70.951 White
  • Crowbar
    • 70.302 Dark Rust stippled
    • 70.301 Light Rust stippled
    • 70.303 Yellowish Rust stippled
    • 71.063 Silver
  • Shirt, yellow part
    • 70.952 Lemon Yellow
    • SWW030 Golden Brown
  • Shirt, red part
    • 70.947 Red
    • SWW021 Red Black
  • Belt
    • 72.028 Dark Green
  • Trousers
    • 70.844 Deep Sky Blue
    • SWW015 Blue
  • Trousers, stripes
    • 70.947 Red
    • SWW021 Red Black
  • Socks
    • 70.951 White
    • SWW030 Golden Brown
  • Shoes
    • 72.028 Dark Green
  • Shoe Sole
    • 70.951 White
    • SWW001 Soft Body Black

Basecoat

Peter

Peter

Peter

Washes

Peter

Peter

Peter

First Highlights

Peter

Peter

Peter

Finished

Peter

Peter

Peter


[15mm IABSM]¶
North of Caen¶

All the webbing, anklets and helmet cover is done. Next up are the wood and metal parts.

British Infantry WWII

British Infantry WWII