"Painted 1:6000 naval miniatures" Topic

Anyone interested in posting images of painted Figurehead 1:6000 ships? To start it off, here are some of mine. Some are slightly modified, but nothing fancy:

British CA Berwick, 1940: picture
German Hipper & Scharnhorst 1940: picture
French CV Bearn 1940: picture
French "2400" ton class DL 1940 (2F71): picture
British BB Dreadnought, with some shading (WWI): picture

Nice paint jobs, especially on the deck of the carrier.

beautiful job on the decks. insipired me to repaint mine!

A few months back, there was a fella who posted here who had created deck art for his 1/6000 CVs in a drawing program. He printed them out and glued them to the decks. They looked fantastic.

Your paint jobs are great, but if you have Photoshop, or Illustrator, Paint, or other similar program, you might want to give it a try.

The computer artwork idea sounds interesting, but I would be concerned about the work involved in seamlessly glueing the paper to the deck, and then about whether it would come apart eventually.

The markings on the Bearn, above, were not that hard to do. The lines were masked with Mystic tape (adhesive partially removed on a piece of glass) and then touched up under a magnifier using a brush. Practice on a piece of scrap first.

Ah, mandt2, I found the thread you refer to. It's under "WWI Naval Battle Reports" -> "US Pacific Fleet vs. Japanese Fleet at Pearl Harbor".

He also has nice paint jobs. :-)

Great job on the CV Bearn, always been one of my favorite carriers, even if a bit stubby and slow (was meant to be a battleship, after all)

Regards,
Chris

I've been meaning to post pics of my 1/6000 Ocean Liners (Olympic, Queen Elizabeth & Queen Mary [both as liners & troop transports], Lusitania & Mauritania, Campania & Lucania, QE2, etc.) I consider them some of my best paint jobs in that scale, Olympic in particular, and will certainly post them as soon as I can.

Cheers,
Chris

I posted this elsewhere, but I will post it here too. To paint these models, most of us will need a magnifier. I use an inexpensive clip-on type called Opticaid, which comes in different magnifications. There are other types, of course.

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Some additional painted Figurehead 1:6000, painted in the same minimal style as those in the first post:

French CL Emile Bertin, and 2 2400-tonne class super-destroyers (latter removed from their bases per my post on the subject), 1940: picture
German pocket battleship Lutzow, 1940: picture
Britsh BCs from Jutland, 1916: link picture

Another try:

British BCs from Jutland, 1916: picture picture

Honestly, I had never looked around for 1:6000 scale miniatures before because I didn't believe they could look this good. I have some C in C 1:4800 somewhere that I bought when they first came out but I think I would rather try the 1:6000, even though I don't paint anywhere near this well.
Must go look up the Figurehead website.

Strange Cargo Games has pictures of the entire Figurehead line (of course, in an un-fixed-up and un-painted state):

strangecargogames.com

I think that at this scale I would have just sprayed them gray and said "Let's play!".

I confess I've taken the "easy route"…. WW1 RN is dark grey, and the High Seas Fleet is in light grey… a bit'o'black on the funnel tops and sound battle stations!

Clint

Here are some Italian ships I've painted.

Steve

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The link goes to some US, British and German ships in 1/6000. I find the actual camouflage is quite possible with a little work.

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Forgot to mention, I really like those Italians.

Great models.
Like so many contributors I adopted the "Grey all over" approach, but found that a darker grey wash really picked out the detaiils in the castings.
A few different tones of blue and green on the textured bases, and then some white drybrush really looks good too.

McKinstry – what's that table surface?

What are the best sources here in the US for 1/6000 scale warships?

Noble Miniatures/Last Square is the maker. Strange Cargo, Scale Specialties and Brookhurst also carry them.

Bolt Action – The surface is the Atlantic map from Terrain Mat.

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All 1:6000

SI

Bolt Action – Nice barber poles. Free hand or using a pen?

McKinstry, and Steve F, and Bolt Action: You guys have nice looking ships. They clearly demonstrate that realistic paint schemes are feasible in 1:6000.

McKinstry: Your terrain mat is quite nice looking, but the granularity might be too great for 1:6000. Kind of hard to see your beautiful paint schemes against it. Most aerial photos of the ocean which I have seen show a more uniform coloration at that scale, except possibly during very rough weather. This is just a personal opinion, of course.

I agree with hindsTMP about the granularity. At table distance I really like it but up close, my MKP mat is probably going to be a better choice for photography.

freehand!
Sorry, not been back here for a while.
I am considering using a pen to get the swatikas clearer on my Bismark…

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Si

What colours are the wood decks done in .. I'm guess it's a flat coat then grain on top?

vallejo beige brown, then added a bit of light flesh to it to create highlights and some streaking.

Just done the pack with Hood, Renown and Repulse tonight. The Renown and Repulse have actually got aircraft on them!

I'm stunned by the quality of these little ships, more so when I look at the state of the 1:3000 stuff I bought last weekend. Absolutely superb models!

I'm fitting a new pair of lights up for my camera set up, when that's done I'll take some pics.

regards

Si

Bolt Action:

Can you tell me your painting technique? Do you prime white or black, do you dry brush gray or paint gray and black wash, what sequence do you paint, etc…

Dan

I recently painted up the Ryuho with her famous deck scheme, sans the little white lines for taking off and whatnot.

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I undercoat black and then just build up with greys.
At the end I line in with some very dark grey, under the gun barrels and in between deck elevation changes etc.
I tend to do quite high contrast stuff to emphasise the detail present on the little models.

Did some German stuff over the weekend.

Si

BoltAction:

What scale planes are in the Italian pics? 1/600 I would suppose. They look pretty good next to the 1/6000 ships…

I have the Leyte Gulf US and Japanese fleet boxes on the way from Figurehead. So I will soon get painting!

Jay