Non-Pendraken Board Info!

[Leon]

In an ideal world, the whole wargaming community would be sat chucking dice at tables full of 10mm goodness, but of course we all like a bit of variety in our lives!  So if you're working on something different, feel free to pop it in this board for everyone to look at. 

A note though, whilst we all like looking at pics and WIP's, this isn't an advertising site, so anything which is deemed to be a bit 'spammy' will be deleted by the Admin team. 

[Matt J]

you should get a job with the UN 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

A sensible and level headed approach Leon. Thank you.

Now EVERYONE can see all the other C**P I'm painting...

[Leon]

you should get a job with the UN 

Now EVERYONE can see all the other C**P I'm painting...

[GordonY]

Lemmey if your painting is anything like mine its not something that you want ANYONE else to see. 10mm I can just about get looking respectable if you squint at it from 3 feet away, "yeah its big and green, must be a Russian tank" kinda detail.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

At the moment it would be the seventeen buildings I did for a mate and the repaint after the paint cracked and lifted! 

[GordonY]

OUCH!!!

I can lend you a scraper.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Think these might get put through the dishwasher before I start again...

[petercooman]

Lemmey if your painting is anything like mine its not something that you want ANYONE else to see. 10mm I can just about get looking respectable if you squint at it from 3 feet away, "yeah its big and green, must be a Russian tank" kinda detail.

You can still identify your stuff as tanks 

You are my new hero!

[Nigelemsen]

Thats alright Will, i'll distract them with my  15mm 1690 FOGR League of Ausburg French... Inking heaven here I come...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one Nigel! 

[Orcs]

Think these might get put through the dishwasher before I start again...

Does resin survive the dishwasher then?   The Dystopian wars stuff has some very stromh release agant on it and its a complete B*gger to get it off so the paint sticks

[Last Hussar]

My wife has a painting project for me - 1:1 scale Dining Room and Hallway (It turns out unlike acrylics, emulsion has a low constitution and gets 'tired' after  3 years or so.  Our stuff must feel like it's finished a triathlon...)

[getagrip]

AH well, commiserations Hussar.

My wife only works one day a week so she does all the house painting which, to be quite frank, I bloody hate!

[ErHo]

My wife has a painting project for me - 1:1 scale Dining Room and Hallway (It turns out unlike acrylics, emulsion has a low constitution and gets 'tired' after  3 years or so.  Our stuff must feel like it's finished a triathlon...)

You should try a brush larger than '000' size to speed up the process.

I'd talk her into throwing up sand and PVA texture, then it would be pretty fun dry brushing the house!

[Norm]

I am working on some Kallistra (12mm) Anglo-Saxon General Fyrd (coerls) and  have become really frustrated by by wash. I am going for muted earth tones as a palette.

For my first wash, I used Vallejo Dark Grey wash watered down with water and medium to 1 ink to 3 water / medium. This is a very pigmented was and I feel at this mix, is still too strong for me.

Firstly I primed in brown special metal primer, then heavily applied the wash, once dry I block painted, but the I feel th paint picked up the was and became dirty ...... so re highlight every thing and then wash thinly - figures were just too dark and drab for little fellows.

So re highlight again, but things looked a bit harsh, so calmed down with a wash of GW Sepia wash mixed 50/50 with water/medium, but I still feel the figures are looking a bit drab. They may 'lift' with basing, but I am unhappy at the moment with my final wash mix and need to experiment further. It may be that the sepia was is OK and that I just need to start out with brighter colours on the figure.

[paulr]

Getting the balance right with washes is tricky, particularly when going for muted colours

You definitely need to go slightly brighter / lighter with your colours and have to make sure the wash and the colours are completely dry
I tend to leave at least 12 hours between painting / washing

I hope you find something you are happy with

[Steve J]

I find that after block colours, as wash with GW Devlin Mud works well. Depending upon the colours, I'll either leave it neat, which works well for sandy colours, or dilute it 50% with water for say blues and greens. I leave it to dry overnight and then highlight any areas I think need doing. Hope this helps Norm.

[Norm]

Thanks Paul / Steve, on the next batch, I am not going to lay ink down until the end of the process. I have binned my Vallejo Dark Grey, it is so richly pigmented that I can't see it working with my style.

[kipt]

Here is a site that is interesting.

https://andybelseymodels.wixsite.com/mysite/1-285-ww1-models