Jamie’s adventures in painting

[ErebusMort]

Steaming on like a man possessed, I find myself at this stage with the foot troops and dropship….

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So that’s most of the basecoats (in contrast paint) on the troops and a wash on the dropship to muddy it up a bit. I’m hoping for some time this weekend to get them closer to the finish line.

I used ttcombat spray paints and I’m afraid that I can’t really recommend them. The colours are nice, but they have covered a fair bit of the detail (faces in particular) and I don’t know if it’s the soft mantic sculpts or the sprays being thicker than I’m used to or just that I was too heavy handed whilst spraying. Contrast paints save me as I don’t think the faces would have taken a normal paint followed by a wash, so that’s handy.

I’m planning to wash everything and then some highlights to make them pop a little as I find just contrast paints aren’t quite enough for the tabletop quail it’s I’m looking for.

[bennyowens]

Ah that's a shame. I'd assumed those sprays weren't much good as I watch a LOT of painting videos and I've literally never seen anyone use them!

[ErebusMort]

Ah that's a shame. I'd assumed those sprays weren't much good as I watch a LOT of painting videos and I've literally never seen anyone use them!

I think they’ll be good for scenery and they worked well on the dropship, but not something I’d rush to use for figures unfortunately.

Silver lining is that I can use them up getting scenery done and not feel guilty about it

[Dave]

Good progress, cohesive looking force too.

On the TT combat sprays, I've used a few and they are ok. I've only used them on terrain projects so far though. I have found that the nozzles clog far too easily so best to use an entire can in two or three sessions.

[ErebusMort]

And the first chunk of the box is done!

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Pleased with how they’ve gone and I’ve already stuck together the last ten or a from the box and I’m hopeful that they’ll be fairly quick now I have the colour scheme down.

[Darkson (Simon)]

Nice.

[ErebusMort]

As I’d promised to get the whole box done, I decided that instead of leaving the last ten figures languishing, I’d get on with it. So progress has begun…..

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I’m confident that they won’t take long now I have the scheme down……. But how many times have we all said that when there’s painting to be done and had it come back to bite us?

[ErebusMort]

And done! Managed to keep focus enough to get them done.

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With these ten done, that’s the whole starter set finished. I just need to get a game arranged first to see if it’s any good!

[Tom]

Impressive combination of focus and productivity! Even when I get a bunch done I seem to bounce from project to project.