Little painting project...

[tneva82]

Newest order finally came from the post(some funny little mixup with that one. Slippery packet!). Atleast now I will have something to paint for a while. See for yourself:

http://www.tneva.net/pics/sst/lottopaint1.jpg

Don't think I have ever seen as much unpainted metal in my desk. Then again having played GW games mainly before I couldn't afford that much on their prices :lol: .

4 squads on left form up platoon 1, 4 squads on right form up platoon 2. 2 invidual models at front of platoons are of course officers to be. Behind the lot are 4 spare reporters(too many reporters! Too manyyyyy!) and 20 spare morita guys. Whoops! Miscalculation! Well. Need to buy 2 more blisters of LAMI specialists and the platoons are full textbook strenght of 2 officers, 5 squads of 10.

Painting them is going to be...Interesting. But I think I'll split them into 4 batches, each of them consisting 2 squads, officer, reporter. When they accidently divide so neatly it would be rude to not take advantage of it

Too bad school piled up bunch of assigments(including 2 big programming ones. But atleast I have thought up few cool features for the web store I'll be coding :twisted: Features I have yet to see in any miniature store anyway. Maybe they aren't technicly viable solution due to performance issues or something but they are just perfect features for project which intents to show your coding skills :wink: ) so I won't be painting them in a hurry. But then again atleast I won't run out of models to paint for a while.

Always look on the bright side of the things...

 

[BizGF]

That's alot to paint, reminds me of the time I tryed to pain about 60 miniatures in 2 weeks .... didn't get them done until about 3 months later. Good Luck!

 

[EvilGinger]

MI is nice to paint and quick as effective colour schemes can be quite simple. I could easily do 60 in a week especially as they are well suited to batch painting techniques. Base coat wash and dry brush then pick out the detail.

The one thing I would warn you don’t use the official CAP scheme as its horribly bright and very green and it would damage your eyesight. The Grey light MI colour scheme is nice and not blinding it would also work well for CAP troopers and I must try it some time.

I will post examples of My MI when I have got some more bateries for the camera.

 

[tneva82]

MI is nice to paint and quick as effective colour schemes can be quite simple. I could easily do 60 in a week especially as they are well suited to batch painting techniques. Base coat wash and dry brush then pick out the detail.

Well for me it went like this(batch 1):

paint graveyard earth for trousers and arms(bar the ones with bare arms rather than cloth covered)

paint scorched brown for boots, chest armour and helmet
Snakebite leather for belts etc(lots of this in these models)
dwarf flesh for flesh
Liberal coat of chestnut ink
Paint eyes
Bleached bone dots over graveyard earth parts
Highlight flesh with bronzed flesh
Chainmail for weapons, finish with black ink, done!

Well also need to do rank signs+bases but those have to wait.

And yeah. I could paint these in 4 days if they were free. Too bad school gets in a way Actually I think I could do them in friday+saturday+sunday if I just didn't have that darn school to worry about. But school "happens" to have priority.

The one thing I would warn you don’t use the official CAP scheme as its horribly bright and very green and it would damage your eyesight.

www.tneva.net/pics/sst

Check cap trooppers, check marauders, check exosuits. You think I'm going to switch from my standard colour scheme for these :wink: I have my own colour scheme for these New Finlands 34th battallion MI's. Mountain camo probably.