"A Speed Painting Project" Topic
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| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 16 Dec 2016 2:53 p.m. PST |
About a century ago, it seems, I acquired a whole bunch of HoF Retained Knights in a couple of lots from ebay one painted and one cheap army pack. Anyway after painting about 60, twice the orginally planned number, for my 15mm not-SMurf army, giving away another 30-odd, and painting another 40-odd for potential selling on, I'm still left with a bag full. So I thought I'd try an experimental quick-paint colour scheme.
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Basically spray white (repeating as neccessary to get coverage), ink, dry brush (yes that does remobilise the ink a bit), detail and 1:600 aircraft transfers for the shoulder pads (don't know if anyone else has tried this?). Basing was sand and base coat with 2 layers of dry brush. Reasonably happy, its very monocromatic, I thought the coloured details might lift it more than they have, but for shear speed, something like 3-4 hours actual bench time, excluding drying, it can be faulted. Personally I quite like the effect. The bikes need some fisnhing off and the APCs, an old abandoned project, are still WiP. I'm probably going to add an MBT, a command section and a couple of drones just round it out. |
| mwindsorfw | 16 Dec 2016 5:00 p.m. PST |
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robert piepenbrink  | 16 Dec 2016 5:08 p.m. PST |
Nicely done. And you're right: this is not a painting competition, but a matter of getting troops on the table. These are certainly table-ready. |
| COL Scott ret | 16 Dec 2016 11:52 p.m. PST |
Yes those are certainly battle ready, and the process sounded simple. I wonder if I could find a way to do Napoleonic armies that way.  |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 17 Dec 2016 3:40 a.m. PST |
I wonder if I could find a way to do Napoleonic armies that way. Might work for Austrian's? |
| Capt Flash | 17 Dec 2016 9:14 p.m. PST |
Good looking stuff. I use pretty much that exact technique for my 15s. |
| Jimboba | 18 Dec 2016 2:03 a.m. PST |
As we all know, unpainted or primed-only forces do not perform well. Speed painted troops do significantly better but only marginally compared to fully realised miniatures who have been infused with full sentient, full performance and cognitive abilities as a result. |
| Your Kidding | 19 Dec 2016 8:10 a.m. PST |
On the table for the win. Thanks for the pics. |
| Ralph Plowman | 19 Dec 2016 12:34 p.m. PST |
Nice job!
Very effective and amazingly quick! |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 24 May 2017 1:46 p.m. PST |
Finished the project, bench time remains pretty low, but elapsed time is a different matter…
The project is a bit of a mixed bag of odds and ends and is probably going to be sold off with some other spare 15mm stuff, but I'm considering revisiting the idea using GZG ORC figures. And yes I know there are things glued on the wrong way around! |
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gets to paint out-of-production figures he never thought he'd see again.
