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Title: Amsterdam calling
Post by: jass on 10 June 2016, 04:56:08 PM
Hi all,

Wanted to get back in wargaming Vietnam (I have 20mm Britannia Models) and I friend of mine said. I will join, but why not in 10mm. So here I am.
Still a little insecure if I can paint 10mm (never gone smaller than 15mm but mostly 28mm).

Info
Name: Jasper
City: Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Wargaming: Mostly historic and pulp





Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: petercooman on 10 June 2016, 05:03:54 PM
Welkom!
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Leon on 10 June 2016, 05:28:51 PM
Hi Jasper, welcome to the Forum!

8)
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: OldenBUA on 10 June 2016, 06:09:33 PM
Hallo Jasper, welkom op het forum! Geen zorgen, 10mm is een mooie schaal en schildert snel als je er aan gewend bent.

Alex
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Subedai on 10 June 2016, 06:12:08 PM
Wotcha Jasper from just across the Channel in the southeast of England.

With regards to painting 10mm, there are loads of examples on the forum of how people paint there figures and if you are not sure, just ask, people will be more than happy to help.

MickS
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Matt J on 10 June 2016, 06:27:25 PM
Welcome Jass.

Vietnam, excellent choice  :D
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: fsn on 10 June 2016, 06:35:13 PM
Hello Jass,

I'm sure you'll be able to paint 10mm if you can paint 15mm.

Aside from Viet Nam, what do you play?
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Steve J on 10 June 2016, 06:40:31 PM
Welcome on board Jass :)
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: jass on 10 June 2016, 06:44:53 PM
Quote from: fsn on 10 June 2016, 06:35:13 PM
Aside from Viet Nam, what do you play?

28mm or larger
SAGA (pagan rus and irish)
Dead man's hands (several gangs)
The Chicago Way (all gangs)
Muskets and tomahawks (American war of independance)
Strange Aeons (lovecraft horror)
Pulp Alley (pulp)
And I still have a lot of cygnar and mercenary models for warmachine

20mm
Vietnam

I had 28mm bolt action and 15mm flames of war but sold that again. I guess WWII is not my cup of tea.
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: d_Guy on 10 June 2016, 06:45:21 PM
Welcome to the forum Jass!
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: fsn on 10 June 2016, 06:48:58 PM
OK, I'll admit to not understanding a lot of that. It's not your explanation. It's my lack of knowledge.

Having said that I think a few people around here would like Pendraken to dabble in the pulp market.
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Ithoriel on 10 June 2016, 06:54:34 PM
Hi Jasper, welcome to the forum.

As others have said, plenty of people here both good at painting 10mm and happy to pass on advice.

Although I'm not one of the former I will say that if you are used to bigger figures you may want to use slightly lighter versions of the colours you normally use, the smaller surface areas make colours look darker.

Generally speaking, smaller figures are no more difficult to paint than bigger ones. A bit less detail, a layer or two less shading and highlighting and otherwise pretty much what you've always done.
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Techno on 10 June 2016, 06:59:32 PM
Welcome (again.....I think  ;)), Jass

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Orcs on 10 June 2016, 08:01:00 PM
Welcome Jasper.

10mm are relatively easy to paint,. Some of the guys here manage to paint more detail than I put on my 28mms, but there is no rel need to so that as you are going for mass effect.
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 10 June 2016, 08:07:54 PM
Welcome and hello!
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Bodvoc on 10 June 2016, 08:53:55 PM
Welcome Jasper, you will enjoy the challenge of painting 10mm.
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: paulr on 10 June 2016, 09:06:55 PM
Welcome Jasper, as others have said a shade lighter and a layer or two less but otherwise much the same :-h
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: nikharwood on 10 June 2016, 09:09:04 PM
Welcome - and good to see another Strange Aeons fan... you know you can do that in 10mm as well, right?

Go here and search for Strange Aeons and you'll find some of my stuff from a while go - including some batreps 8)

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?action=search2
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 11 June 2016, 07:13:56 AM
Oh no - more forigerns.  :d

Welcome and enjoy

IanS
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: FierceKitty on 11 June 2016, 08:21:06 AM
Dag, and don't worry about Ian. He's English, you know.
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: nikharwood on 11 June 2016, 12:57:39 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 June 2016, 08:21:06 AM
Dag, and don't worry about Ian. He's English, you know.

No he's not - he's a Scouser. ;D
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 11 June 2016, 01:40:03 PM
Now I know why no-one missed Nik

IanS

Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: FierceKitty on 11 June 2016, 01:42:05 PM
Given a good rifle and a clear shot, there's no excuse for missing anyone.
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: d_Guy on 11 June 2016, 01:56:19 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 June 2016, 01:42:05 PM
Given a good rifle and a clear shot, there's no excuse for missing anyone.
Well there is what we call "buck fever" - poor target identification and/or the sudden inability to squeeze the trigger at the appropriate time.
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Techno on 11 June 2016, 03:40:49 PM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 June 2016, 01:42:05 PM
Given a good rifle and a clear shot, there's no excuse for missing anyone.

Try shooting mouse sized rats, which zip from one place to another every millisecond.
(I like the bigger really stupid ones, which sit upright, and carefully watch you as you take aim.)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Last Hussar on 11 June 2016, 03:47:11 PM
I find Pendraken figures very forgiving of my feeble attempts.

Just don't look at the examples by some here, such as Nik - you'll just upset yourself.  :'( :'(
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Leman on 11 June 2016, 08:38:56 PM
Quote from: nikharwood on 11 June 2016, 12:57:39 PM
No he's not - he's a Scouser. ;D
Very few Scousers are English, there being a massive amount of Irish, Scots, Welsh and Afro-Carribean DNA in Scouseland. Ian, however, is a Tunnel Rat from the Wirral - as indeed am I (originally).
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Tawa on 16 June 2016, 04:08:26 PM
Herro!  :D
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Westmarcher on 16 June 2016, 06:29:07 PM
Jeez! When did you sneak in, Jasper? (must have been when I was on holiday) Usually / often / sometimes, people try to escape from a lunatic asylum. Oh, well. You're in now. God help you.
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Tawa on 17 June 2016, 03:32:38 PM
Quote from: Leman on 11 June 2016, 08:38:56 PM
Very few Scousers are English, there being a massive amount of Irish, Scots, Welsh and Afro-Carribean DNA in Scouseland. Ian, however, is a Tunnel Rat from the Wirral - as indeed am I (originally).

Propeh Skowse like is ee lad?  ;D ;D ;D



Edit: Incidentally one of my great sources of amusement is when Tunnel Rats and Smellies try to tell Mrs Tawa that "Norra propeh skowser you like dow is ya!"......
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: jass on 02 July 2016, 07:17:26 AM
I got 5 us vietnam officers to try 10mm from a friend.

Here is the first...

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p523/Jasper_Leenarts/Vietnam/collage-1467324126891.jpg) (http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/Jasper_Leenarts/media/Vietnam/collage-1467324126891.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 02 July 2016, 09:31:56 AM
Superb
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Techno on 02 July 2016, 10:02:38 AM
Really good !  8)

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: paulr on 03 July 2016, 04:37:22 AM
 :-bd =D> :-bd
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Matt J on 03 July 2016, 07:40:21 AM
Great work  8)
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: nikharwood on 03 July 2016, 08:42:38 PM
Nicely done 8)
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: skywalker on 04 July 2016, 11:14:19 AM
Very nice =D> =D> =D>
Title: Re: Amsterdam calling
Post by: Steve J on 04 July 2016, 12:59:22 PM
Excellent work 8)