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Post by PitYak Studios on Jun 27, 2005 11:45:43 GMT 12
I'll get my next month's lot in first; I'll start with what I've got undercoated already;  Punks  More confederate cav  George Armstrong Custer's last stand (against 1st Richmond Engineers) |
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Jun 27, 2005 12:20:58 GMT 12
You'll be one of them there black base coaters then eh? Never had much luck with that myself. Tried some 28mm Skaven with a black basecoat but found it took so many undercoats of browns before I could lay down any red or flesh tones and even then the overall figure was very dark. I ended up stripping them all and re-primed them white  . I've always had more luck with a white coat, base painting and ink washes. Different strokes I guess! |
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Post by dustand on Jun 27, 2005 12:39:27 GMT 12
I used to use black base coats unless the figure needed to be mostly white red or yellow. now I am to lazy and just paint straight on the model.
Now, tell me more about that wee little steam car, I like the cut of its gib and need to scratch build a couple truckks for the orks...
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jun 27, 2005 13:22:09 GMT 12
I generally undercoat these little gaming figures in black, but otherwise I always use light undercoats. It's a case of balancing the speed of the job with the problem you noted of painting pale shades over the black. For 20mm gaming figures i'm more concerned about having dark shadows than accurate highlights, if you see what I mean. A mate of mine who paints the same figures always uses a mid brown undercoat, a good compromise that I plan to try.
As for the car, the chassis and front wheels are from a 1:72 Hitler's staff car model. The armour is made from perforated sheets from old computers, the engine itself is made from the barrel of a keylock, a pen and a golf tee, the back wheels are the middle of floppy discs, the crew are italeri cavalrymen, the fireman is a revell pioneer, with scratch built spade. The cannon are casts of my own scratchbuilt master.
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Jun 27, 2005 13:29:04 GMT 12
Yeah, funnily enough I stumbled across a scorched brown base coat over white primer for my FOW army. Alas GW don't sell a 'scorched brown' spray can. I reckon it would definitely work well for larger scales.
Nice work on that scratch built cannon btw. I'm particularly impressed with the wheel. Did you master it yourself or lift it from something else?
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jun 27, 2005 14:06:42 GMT 12
The rear wheel? two floppy hubs glued together, rim filled with putty, and pop fastener thingees for the hub.
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Post by dustand on Jun 27, 2005 20:55:32 GMT 12
Fantastic use of materials, I might have to make the warbosses trukk part of the next months quota, ahhh motivation =] I dunno what I would have done without this contest.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jun 29, 2005 13:14:37 GMT 12
My next month is looking busy - I've just found a guy on trademe selling thousands of acw figures that will presumably be winging my way shortly.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jul 4, 2005 16:00:06 GMT 12
I've got the basecoats layed down on my next four units of cav;   I hate looking at figures at this stage, they look bloody awful! One thing that is probably apparent from the pics is the problem of using a black undercoat we were talking about - all the pale shades have a kinda greenish tinge to them. I'll try and get them finished off as quick as possible from this point, so it'll be second coat on areas that need it, washes over the whole lot, then detailing. Any areas that look like they could really do with a highlight will get it. But I don't really reckon you're going to notice if the fourth good ole boy from the left out of 500 has a bit of paint missing. (One other thing, I really hate painting horses, which is a shame when you're building a cavalry based army). |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jul 13, 2005 13:27:55 GMT 12
No further forward on the painting, but I thought these three wips would make an interesting photo:-  It wasn't intentional, but I noticed I had three figures in progressive states of completion. The one on the left is the wire armature covered in a thin layer of milliput. This gives a solid skeleton on which to start sculpting, and I usually have a dozen or so at this stage. You can see by the bits of green how I go onto the next stage; while working on other sculpts, any left over pieces get used to start the bulking up of the armatures. The middle fella is a step further on. His feet and legs are pretty much finished, and his torso has been roughed in. (he has no arms as he will be carrying a cannonball, so arms and torso will be sculpted as one.) The guy on the right is further on still. His lower half is finished, tunic almost done, just need to finish the cuff area and collar, then onto the detailing. He is going to be firing the cannon when finished. (they are all 20mm / 1:72 by the way) |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jul 20, 2005 19:11:11 GMT 12
I got about 600 new figures in the post this week |
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Jul 21, 2005 10:29:27 GMT 12
Only 600? That must have been disappointing . Acorn models in Auckland just had a closing down sale and madly enough I actually spent some time hovering over the scale historics just to see if there was anything that grabbed my attention. (Un?)fortunately there wasn't. I was also tempted to pick up some Tamiya WWII modelling kits...but I couldn't see anything that grabbed me . |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jul 21, 2005 10:37:31 GMT 12
I've really got to stop buying for a while. Heard that one before?
I did have quite a good paint session last night, so this months cavalry and punks are a bit closer to completion. Thinking about starting the infantry next month, what with having about 20 boxes of them.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jul 25, 2005 12:08:10 GMT 12
I doubt I'll get much more done this month, so here we go;   That's four units of acw cav, and 8 punks. from the top left, 1st Virginia, 4th texas, Crazy wounded vet, George A Custer Jr, Sgt Sergei, Spanners, more 4th Texas, 6th South Carolina, Boris the Butcher, Drunken Para, Baseball Billy and Tatiana Dragunov. I made the mistake of trying circuit board lacquer on the punks. Good varnish but kinda glossy and also obliterated my weeks work of painting! Drunken Para's bottle had visible fluid in it, boris's victim's eyes were spooky! and when i bombed the whole lot with lacquer, they all turned a shiny dark brown. Oh well. |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Jul 29, 2005 11:43:38 GMT 12
I've pretty much decided on the make up of my confederates; 1st Infantry Corps - General commanding 1st Infantry Division - General commanding 1st Infantry Brigade - General commanding 1st Texas 8th Texas Volunteers 1st Louisiana Zouve's Wheat's Tiger's 2nd Infantry Brigade - General commanding 1st Virginia 21st Virginia 1st South Carolina Mclellan's Zouaves 2nd Infantry Division - General commanding 3rd Infantry Brigade - General commanding Arkansas volunteers 14th mississipi 4th Infantry Brigade - General commanding Palmetto Guard 1st Maryland Attached cavalry - General commanding (Brigadier level) 1st Virginia "Black Horse" 4th Texas volunteers 6th South Carolina volunteers 26th Texas lancer "Chasseurs de debray" Horse artillery (1 or 2 four gun batteries) Attached artillery Dunno, see how bored I get painting cannon So basically, 1 corps commander, two division commanders, 4 infantry brigade commanders, 1 cavalry brigade commnder, 15 regiments of infantry, 4 of cav, and as many guns as I can be bothered with. "When" I get that all finished, the next plan will be to increase the cavalry contingent to corps strength, then have full army, with infantry and cavalry corps. |
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