Greg Smith
Mongoose
Da Boss said:Perhaps the cloaking device needs the ship to be green to work
Finlos said:
Maybe Romulans are colour blind. :lol:
Painting Star trek Miniatures
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Maybe Romulans are colour blind. :lol:
lastbesthope
Mongoose
Finlos said:
For Ferraris, yes, but not for all things motorised, otherwise the racing teams would paint them that colour.....
LBH
Iain McGhee
Mongoose
Consensus on the colour of Federation hulls ? Opened a right can of worms there, mate
To me the TOS originals look off-white, the remastered ones look light grey (and the TAS ones look light grey/blue). Take yer pick, basically. Light Ghost Grey seems to be a popular choice among modellers. I'll be doing the SL 2500 ships in Foundry Arctic Grey (very pale grey), most likely over the dark shade of the same paint if it's any help.
To me the TOS originals look off-white, the remastered ones look light grey (and the TAS ones look light grey/blue). Take yer pick, basically. Light Ghost Grey seems to be a popular choice among modellers. I'll be doing the SL 2500 ships in Foundry Arctic Grey (very pale grey), most likely over the dark shade of the same paint if it's any help.
This might help answer the question.Rambler said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXYjvrzJkl8&feature=related (Skip forward to about 1:34.)
The main colour seems to be grey, though it is difficult to be sure what colour the raised panels are. (The blue lighting from V'ger doesn't help judging this...) They appear darker, possibly slightly green, which would be consistent with the colour scheme given with the plastic kit of that ship.
Pale grey works well because some of the screen shots I've seen show illuminated panels on the saucer. If the base colour is pale grey then these can be painted bright white or fluorescent yellow and will show up nicely. (The same goes for windows if you have the patience!) And don't forget the red go-fast stripes. :lol:Iain McGhee said:Consensus on the colour of Federation hulls ? Opened a right can of worms there, mate
To me the TOS originals look off-white, the remastered ones look light grey (and the TAS ones look light grey/blue). Take yer pick, basically. Light Ghost Grey seems to be a popular choice among modellers. I'll be doing the SL 2500 ships in Foundry Arctic Grey (very pale grey), most likely over the dark shade of the same paint if it's any help.
This is a useful source of Star Trek material:
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/
In particular, the Starship Gallery shows various pictures of various ships from various sources.
Captain Jonah
Mongoose
Nice site.
Anyway. The "Official" colour is what you are happy with, the Federation has a number of fleets and detached squadrons on its borders. The home fleet is gleaming blue/white because it shows up better for the Tri-D images, the Klingon border fleets are grey, the Kzinti facing squadrons could be more dirty white, the Romulan ones could be more blue etc.
Heck if you want to paint them blue/white with add slogans on the saucer and engineering hull go ahead.
"Today sports fans we have an exciting match for you, a small mixed battle group of our own heroes against those vile klingon raiders. The raiders are in the usual dark murky grey but the squadron leader Admiral Krank has his personal coat of arms on his C7. On our side the Dreadnaught Sprit of Capitalism" is showing off its new paint work with the full saucer showing adverts for this years grav ball league. Not sure about the advert for Mars export Whiskey on the engineering section though, what with all those engineers down there". :shock:
Anyway. The "Official" colour is what you are happy with, the Federation has a number of fleets and detached squadrons on its borders. The home fleet is gleaming blue/white because it shows up better for the Tri-D images, the Klingon border fleets are grey, the Kzinti facing squadrons could be more dirty white, the Romulan ones could be more blue etc.
Heck if you want to paint them blue/white with add slogans on the saucer and engineering hull go ahead.
"Today sports fans we have an exciting match for you, a small mixed battle group of our own heroes against those vile klingon raiders. The raiders are in the usual dark murky grey but the squadron leader Admiral Krank has his personal coat of arms on his C7. On our side the Dreadnaught Sprit of Capitalism" is showing off its new paint work with the full saucer showing adverts for this years grav ball league. Not sure about the advert for Mars export Whiskey on the engineering section though, what with all those engineers down there". :shock:
Little Soldiers
Mongoose
Jean has a point there!
Well, if you're wishing to paint your Feds as a 'Middle Years' fleet, I'd suggest you want them the same colour as the TOS Enterprise, yes? (From the SFU timeline perspective, the adventures of Kirk and Co. occur during the Middle Years.)
In that case, this article, on the blog of Star Trek makeup / FX guru Doug Drexler, might be of some service:
http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/what-color-is-the-tos-enterprise/
I certainly intend to give my Feds a spraying of Tamiya Japanese Navy Grey, lightened as described in the post. Setting the airbrush to a narrow spray cone, and lightening further, will add a soft buildup of highlights around the edges of the saucer, etc.
At least, that's the theory... I'll let people know if it works in practice!!
Edit: Only my advice, but I suggest you ignore the BS about adding absurd amounts of white to lighten the shade as the size of the miniature decreases - Lighten it up if you like the look, by all means, but if you extrapolate Huntley's percentages, our Klingons should be painted about 20% Grey, 80% white.
Well, if you're wishing to paint your Feds as a 'Middle Years' fleet, I'd suggest you want them the same colour as the TOS Enterprise, yes? (From the SFU timeline perspective, the adventures of Kirk and Co. occur during the Middle Years.)
In that case, this article, on the blog of Star Trek makeup / FX guru Doug Drexler, might be of some service:
http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/what-color-is-the-tos-enterprise/
I certainly intend to give my Feds a spraying of Tamiya Japanese Navy Grey, lightened as described in the post. Setting the airbrush to a narrow spray cone, and lightening further, will add a soft buildup of highlights around the edges of the saucer, etc.
At least, that's the theory... I'll let people know if it works in practice!!
Edit: Only my advice, but I suggest you ignore the BS about adding absurd amounts of white to lighten the shade as the size of the miniature decreases - Lighten it up if you like the look, by all means, but if you extrapolate Huntley's percentages, our Klingons should be painted about 20% Grey, 80% white.
Renny
Mongoose
I haven't painted a mini for a long time either and this is what i've come up with so far. They're 95% done. Just need to finish the navigational deflector dish on the frigates and put a matt varnish coat on. If you're unsure about painting, i'd tackle the Klingons first as you can get away with a lot with a grey hull colour and a bit of drybrushing. That's pretty much all i've done with these and i'm pretty happy with them so far.
A trio of Klingon ships skirt the infamous kettle nebula in the kitchen worktop sector
A trio of Klingon ships skirt the infamous kettle nebula in the kitchen worktop sector
GalagaGalaxian
Mongoose
Renny said:
Out of curiosity, what colors/brands did you use paint those? They look great.
Renny
Mongoose
GalagaGalaxian said:
Ok, so as follows;
I brush painted thinned Games Workshop chaos black as an undercoat, having first washed the models in warm soapy water, and then assembled with superglue.
The base hull colour is Revell Aqua Color 79, Greyish blue. Painted that over the hull. The blue radiators were painted with GW Regal Blue, then drybrushed with GW Hawk Turquoise. The red intakes were painted with GW Red Gore then highlighted with a drybrush of the same colour, lightened with a bit of white mixed in. I then gave some of the raised detail sections (wings and neck on the DN, main hull superstructure on the frigates) a wash with GW Black Ink. I then tidied up the main hull colour again, where drybrushing had been untidy. Also painted on a bit of fine detail like lighted windows on the command pod, and so on. Left the whole lot to dry then tackled the minis with a very fine drybrush of GW Skull White around the hull edges and rised sections. This just makes the mini look better, to my eyes at least. I've then varnished them with a GW satin varnish. A bit too shiny for some people but I like my ships that way, and I may cover them with a matt varnish coat if I get to put decals on them at some point in the future.
Hope some of that helps
If you want to get an idea of what the 2500-series ships look like before you paint 'em, here you go.
Little Soldiers
Mongoose
Nice work Renny! And thanks for sharing. Was clean up of flash or casting channels any issue when you were assembling your models?
