| John Treadaway | 15 Jun 2014 8:17 a.m. PST |
A recent thread was started asking what the best approach was to painting diecasts for use in 15mm SF games TMP link As I had some more of these to do, I thought I'd photograph the process and put my thoughts down. It's in the 'How to Articles' hammers-slammers.com/how.htm on the Crucible site or directly here link It goes from straight out of the bubble pack
to finished (well, finished enough for me, anyway!)
I hope you find it informative. John Treadaway
hammers-slammers.com |
| Redroom | 15 Jun 2014 10:20 a.m. PST |
good stuff, thanks for sharing. I need to pick up some of the Tamiya gloss shade. |
| grommet37 | 15 Jun 2014 12:52 p.m. PST |
John Treadaway wrote: I hope you find it informative. Indeed I do. Thank you very much. I'm quite busy the next few weeks, but I can't wait to try these techniques. I'll be working on aircraft (mostly as scenery) and a couple of vehicles for my Museum of Universal Concord engagements. I'll post some pics when I do. Cheers. |
dampfpanzerwagon  | 15 Jun 2014 2:12 p.m. PST |
A great little tutorial. Thanks for the links. Tony |
| John Treadaway | 15 Jun 2014 2:15 p.m. PST |
Thanks Tony – that's high praise coming from yourself :) John T |
| Lfseeney | 15 Jun 2014 10:15 p.m. PST |
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| War Monkey | 16 Jun 2014 5:06 a.m. PST |
Very nice indeed, and informative, thanks for the very useful information :D |
Patrick Sexton  | 16 Jun 2014 7:58 a.m. PST |
Excellent tutorial (and you certainly have done a better job on this than I did!). Thanks, Pat |
 MrHarold  | 16 Jun 2014 8:55 a.m. PST |
This is great, thanks for sharing! |
| TK 421 | 16 Jun 2014 9:02 a.m. PST |
Who makes that fork lift? |
| Patrick Sexton | 16 Jun 2014 9:48 a.m. PST |
I will presume to answer for Mr. Treadaway, Matchbox. |
| John Treadaway | 16 Jun 2014 2:13 p.m. PST |
Spot on Patrick. A whole one pound from my local pound shop. They are all sourced from there with some exceptions, which I'll list: The low flying cars are (very old and now re-released) stuff from 15mm.co.uk: one is a four seater conversion. The fire engine was gifted but – I think – still Matchbox. The Police trucks are ebay finds but – again – orginally Matchbox: they have some that are very similar in my local pound shop at the moment, but not quite as nice, so I've left them. So, the Police trucks cost a little more than a pound (and have tribarrels added to the roof mounts: "protect and serve"!) but they're till, I think, Matchbox. Finally, the hovercraft are very ancient Matchbox that were bought as almost trash on ebay which – along with the naff paint and stickers on them – is the main reason they got a 'proper' paint job: they were chipped to hell. But all the rest re pound shop Matchbox: I hope that helps. John T |
| TK 421 | 16 Jun 2014 2:42 p.m. PST |
Thanks Patrick. I'll be sure to look for it in my next die cast foray. I've been finding MB stuff for 87 cents each! on the clearance rack! Thanks for listing the rest John. |
| AVAMANGO | 16 Jun 2014 4:22 p.m. PST |
JT you really do need to sculpt up a few tarps and get them into production, the long one on the roof of that first 4x4 in the forth photo down looks great. |
| John Treadaway | 16 Jun 2014 11:16 p.m. PST |
@Avamango – thanks: that's not a bad idea. John T |
