MG armed French FT-17

[Techno]

 

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Lovely stuff once again

[Roy]

Got to say that it looks good. I wouldn't have thought so, with those colours, but it does.

[Terry37]

I have finished the Renault and it is ready to base.



I have to share that what fun it was making the diamond heart insignia for the turret - took the better part of an afternoon! The white diamond was really pretty simple as I just cut a corner out of a red cross decal and turned it on it's point. The heart, that's a different story as it is only 1 MM in size. I used some small red dots I have for pre-war American insignia and tried cutting it into the heart shape. After I ruined 8 of those red dots I decided to try a different approach. I used white paint and painted the red dot to look like a heart and that worked pretty good, but I wasn't sure how the decal would work after I put paint on it. So, I cut the painted decal out and it went on fine. I am very please with the results.

I'll show this again after I've done the base. My plan in is to have it crashing through some barbed wire on a shell pocked section of No-Man's Land.

Terry

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looks great

[Steve J]

Lovely work

[Techno]

 
Cheers - Phil.

[Terry37]

Thank you everyone for your kind words. I have found the various and numerous Pendraken models of armor and walkers to be so accommodating for conversions, and great fun to paint up. In forth coming armies I will be doing an A7V, a German captured Whippet, some Hungarian and French light walkers, a British heavy walker, a British hover A/C, and a German and French Uberpanzer and a Char de Combat de Super. For me some very exciting conversions that I am very much looking forward to doing!

Terry

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[Terry37]

Here's the finished and based FT17 for my American Weird WWI army. Great fun creating it.



You can see the full army under the "Non Pendraken" section.

Terry

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice basing

[Techno]

Like that !

Cheers - Phil.

[lowlylowlycook]

That's an awesome muddy base.  I can feel my boot being pulled off my foot.

[Terry37]

Thank you all for the kind comments.

For the basing of my figures I start with some Elmer's wood putty that I thin with water as needed and then apply it with a brush. To create the mud look of No Man's Land,  I would make any high areas first with pieces of balsa wood, and then apply he putty over it. Then as the putty was starting to harden, I took the remnant of an old paint brush with no real bristles left and sort of picked and jabbed and tortured the putty. Then if needed I'd take a wet brush and smooth any unrealistic areas and re-torture if needed. Then when the putty was dry, to create smaller pieces of dirt and mud I sprinkled some mixed size model railroad ballast over an area of clear glaze. Then when the glaze dried I'd give it another coat of glaze and it was fixed to the base.

Once the basing material was all well dried I'd paint it with a base coat of appropriate color and then start going over that with various very thin washes of paint. Lastly I'd paint in any specific ares I wanted shadowed and using a "we"t dry brush feather in some highlights.

It's a slow process, but is one I am happy with and feel it is worth the time.

Terry

[Roy]