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Title: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 12:37:45 PM
Made a start on these...from black undercoat:

Charred Brown overbrush:
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42590.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42591.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42592.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42593.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42594.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42595.jpg)

Beasty Brown overbrush on infantry & bases:
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42654.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42655.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42656.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42657.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42658.jpg)
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 12:38:42 PM
Sponge stippling White:
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42659.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42660.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42662.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42663.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42664.jpg)

Total elapsed time: 25 minutes
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 12:39:28 PM
What happened next??!  :o :o :o :o :'( :'( :'( :( :( :( :o :o :o

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/boltz.jpg)
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Luddite on 01 October 2011, 12:40:50 PM
Oh no!!   :o
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 12:42:02 PM
This:
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42459.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42359.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42358.jpg)

Our new puppy decided that he liked the taste of Pendraken...buggrit!

The T26s are probably rescue-able, but the infantry's had it. Naughty puppy. :o3
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 01 October 2011, 01:07:54 PM
 :o

And not for the usual reasons!

Nik - hope they are salavgeable!  :'(
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 01 October 2011, 01:23:35 PM
Lab's can be a tad destructive - got to keep em occupied.

Lovley dogs though.

ianS
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 01:33:34 PM
Yep - he's a Lab / Springer cross that was rescued [maybe from a 15mm-er  ;) ;D ]

He gets lots of exercise & play: we [him, me & the & 7 yr-old German Shepherd] were on Dunster Beach at 6am...lovely. And he'll come to do the horses later.

Just before he decided to eat the Motherland's finest, he had been lying quietly on the kitchen floor with the GS. I went out to the garage to get paint...back about 60 seconds later...sneaky monkey  :d
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 01:42:07 PM
Thinned wash of Khaki onto uniforms; thinned wash of Cayman Green onto helmets, blanket rolls & guns / vehicles:

(T26s rebased too...)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42666.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42667.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42668.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42669.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42670.jpg)

Total elapsed time = 45 mins
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 02:10:41 PM
Painted Elf Fleshtone onto flesh & Cold Grey onto weapons:
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42671.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42672.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42673.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42674.jpg)

Total elapsed time = 55 mins
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 01 October 2011, 02:57:43 PM
Not bad, ;)
Does this elapsed time include the time to extract T26 from the dog's gums?
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Kiwidave on 01 October 2011, 03:01:30 PM
How are the poses for the Russian winter rifleman? Looking at the photos on the PD site, the one standing and firing looks wrong - he's holding his rifle in an odd fashion...

Other than that, nice work once again. (and are you sure there's no German Shepherd in your pup's ancestry? ;) )
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 03:37:18 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 01 October 2011, 02:57:43 PM
Not bad, ;)
Does this elapsed time include the time to extract T26 from the dog's gums?

;D

Decals applied & 'Magic' wash everything:
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42675.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42676.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42677.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42678.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42679.jpg)

Quote from: Kiwidave on 01 October 2011, 03:01:30 PM
How are the poses for the Russian winter rifleman? Looking at the photos on the PD site, the one standing and firing looks wrong - he's holding his rifle in an odd fashion...

I think you're talking about this one - does look a bit odd - his left hand is at the end of the barrel, but paints up OK:
(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42680.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42681.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42683.jpg)

Total elapsed time = 65 minutes
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 01 October 2011, 03:58:45 PM
Lab - Springer cross - lab with no comon sense - Arghh !!!  :'( ;D

No doubt much fun though. Looks to be fully recovered now though.

IanS
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 04:16:00 PM
Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 October 2011, 03:58:45 PM
Lab - Springer cross - lab with no comon sense - Arghh !!!  :'( ;D

Too right...mad as a box of frogs.  8-}

Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 October 2011, 03:58:45 PM
No doubt much fun though. Looks to be fully recovered now though.

He is...can't say the same for the troops though!
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Kiwidave on 01 October 2011, 04:41:37 PM
Quote from: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 03:37:18 PM
I think you're talking about this one - does look a bit odd - his left hand is at the end of the barrel, but paints up OK:

On the snipers is the same - maybe the sculptor has never held a rifle?

Other than that - you are making it really hard for me NOT to get my winter Russians now....
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Aart Brouwer on 01 October 2011, 08:21:07 PM
Please, can somebody just stop Nik?

I myself am painting Russians as we type... or pretending to paint them... or trying to pretend...  Oh God  X_X

;)

Cheers,
Aart
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 01 October 2011, 08:29:36 PM
Sorry Aart  :)

Snow mix onto bases:
(this time I have not shaken extra snow powder onto the wet mix - I want to see if that looks more like icy-snow rather than fluffy-snow...if it does, I'll give ze Germans a treatment...we'll see)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42684.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42685.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42686.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42687.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42688.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42689.jpg)

(http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/nikharwood/ww2%2010mm%20russians/STA42690.jpg)

Matt varnish & on-table pics to follow...

Total elapsed time = 90 minutes again! Happy with that  <) <:-P :dance
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Luddite on 01 October 2011, 08:35:34 PM
The Russians never did have much luck with dogs & tanks did they...
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: OldenBUA on 01 October 2011, 09:23:56 PM
Nik, are you sure it's really your dog? After all, he only ate two T-26's (and even some infantry!), when there were all these nice and tasty T-34's around as well!

Still a big bummer when something like that happens, though. And I think I would just throw in the towel after anything like that. Amazing how you just keep on going.

Anyway, a real spiffing job (as usual). And on the one hand I have to agree with Aart, this has got to stop! Because I think what's the point, why spend hours painting a few bits when this guy cranks em out by the boatload. But on the other hand, it is inspirational, and makes me want to put brush to figure, rather than just sit at the computer and look at what others are doing.
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 02 October 2011, 08:22:38 PM
 :-[ :)

On-table pics now up: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=3895.0
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: jfariahitech on 03 October 2011, 08:11:28 PM
Oh no, not again.
firts the 90m germans, now 90m russians.
My heart cant take this kind of speed painting ;D

nice job!
:-bd

PS: made an hot dog from your dog, just to punishing it  :d
just kidding, lovely puppy!
;)
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 03 October 2011, 08:47:43 PM
Quote from: jfariahitech on 03 October 2011, 08:11:28 PM
PS: made an hot dog from your dog, just to punishing it  :d
just kidding, lovely puppy!
;)

I thought about it...and he was definitely in the doghouse for a while  :)
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Leon on 04 October 2011, 04:19:07 AM
Very nice Nik, shame about the canine interference though!  I find it's usually the 1-year old at the moment, he quite likes helping me bag up the dice.  Have to watch him like a hawk though, in case he gets one of the bags open and rolls a '6' in his next nappy...  :D


Quote from: Luddite on 01 October 2011, 08:35:34 PM
The Russians never did have much luck with dogs & tanks did they...

:D
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Aart Brouwer on 07 October 2011, 08:08:01 PM
What brand of snow mix did you use, Nik?

Cheers,
Aart
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: nikharwood on 07 October 2011, 09:08:12 PM
Quote from: Aart Brouwer on 07 October 2011, 08:08:01 PM
What brand of snow mix did you use, Nik?

It's this Aart [although I left off the final dusting for the Russkies]:

- snow is a mix: PVA: Woodlands Scenics Snow: water at about 4: 4: 2 ratio - brushed, shoved, poked & cajoled onto bases & then while it's still wet, it gets another dusting of snow from a height...leave to dry...
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Aart Brouwer on 08 October 2011, 09:42:14 AM
Quote from: nikharwood on 07 October 2011, 09:08:12 PM
It's this Aart [although I left off the final dusting for the Russkies]:

- snow is a mix: PVA: Woodlands Scenics Snow: water at about 4: 4: 2 ratio - brushed, shoved, poked & cajoled onto bases & then while it's still wet, it gets another dusting of snow from a height...leave to dry...

Thx mate,

Aart
Title: Re: WW2 Russians - Stalingrad: Ultra-fast painting
Post by: Aart Brouwer on 08 October 2011, 04:32:24 PM
By the way, I once used a 1:1 solution of PVC and white acrylic, shoved it on, then sprinkled it with shell sand. Gives a nice shiny touch akin to frozen snow.

But hey, yours look frozen enough after the white overbrush. I'm not worthy.  :-S

Cheers,
Aart