Want a fleet/ship painted/converted to your specs?

[Tank_Santa]

Hey all,

I do commission painting for many game systems and I figure I can offer my services out to this game as well.

Being a big fan of Babylon 5, it would be a nice to paint some ships for change from all the Flames of War and Warhammer painting of late.

Anyone interested in having some items painted up for them can PM me here or reach me at the e-mail below. I check my e-mail very often so replies are quick. I can also send you examples of my work on request.

Price for painting varies and depends on the project, but I will be able to provide a fairly accurate number most of the time based on your description of the job required.

Ship bases can also be detailed with both faction logo/name (if no logo exists) & Name/Registry of the specific ship if players prefer. You may submit the specific names required at your leisure. Basically I am open to anything and everything and I will do my best to meet your required tastes.

I will post some of my first modern ACTA ships in this post shortly as I have not painted B5 ships since Babylon 5 Wars from AOG. Check back for examples soon

nemesis_of_the_guy@hotmail.com

Ok prices are in CAN and assume you would be providing the models, however I can get them locally by order. I also offer people the option of cleaning the mould lines and flash themselves, keeps my time down and saves you some money.

Each ship can be roughly translated out as follows and I used the Raider Battlewagon as an example for cost, it retails $13.95 CAN. Again all prices assume you provide the models.

No conversions: Base model cost x 1.5
So a raider battlewagon would cost roughly $20

Ship with heavy conversion: Base model cost x 2
So the same raider battlewagon converted and modified $28

Names or any other details can be added to the bases of ships, cost is based on desired info to be added.

Fighters mounted on standard bases: $2/ Flight
*little numbers can be added to the center of each flight base if you need to be able to tell each fighter flight apart. Just add $10 to the total and I can do every base.

I do not have various quality levels so everything I do is to what I would do my own projects. Prices are negotiable, at least a little, depends on quanity vs complexity.

Regards,

Jon

 

[daishi]

you might want to indicate where you are located so people know if they are likely to be sending stuff overseas or not

 

[Tank_Santa]

Wasn't aware I left it out, 90% of my customers are accross the ponds from me anyway. But in regards to the information no problem. Actually majority of my customers are from Europe from what I can tell.

I am located in Ontario, Canada. I charge true shipping costs and not any overdone flat rates.

 

[[Omicron]Urobach]

Wasn't aware I left it out, 90% of my customers are accross the ponds from me anyway. But in regards to the information no problem. Actually majority of my customers are from Europe from what I can tell.

I am located in Ontario, Canada. I charge true shipping costs and not any overdone flat rates.

do you only paint/convert???....you are not build/sculpt/scratchbuild ships,or??? i am only interestet... :wink:

 

[Taran]

Checking to see if you have competition, Urobach?

 

[[Omicron]Urobach]

Checking to see if you have competition, Urobach?

yep...i like it to see the work from other "artists". you can learn a lot when you times to times look at the work from others. not to steal their ideas...for inspiration. And there is always someone who is better than you:wink:

 

[Tank_Santa]

I scratch built ships in the past for sure. However I have not done any as of late. I was looking at some of yours and I really enjoyed them.

For the most part I intend on painting. For instance I just started this Hyperion tonight, needs to sit for a while though the white paint keeps wanting to come off. I really had this urge to paint panel lines...

I also found an old flight of thunderbolts from when I was still playing fleet action with AOG rules. Decided I would start messing with them too.

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[Greg Smith]

A hyperion with guns! Nice.

 

[[Omicron]Urobach]

i have made the same with my hyperions and all my other EA ship (Omegas,Avengers,Nova,Hermes etc.), too.
and very fine details on the paint job. i am an great fan of such detail work...gun barrels,antennas,windows,signs... :wink:

 

[M1ndr1d3rs]

Incredible detail, those panel lines. How did you do it?

With antennas on a flat nose, it looked much more like the Hyperions we see on screen.

 

[Tank_Santa]

Thanks for the comments guys! Nice o see I didn't mess it up right off the start.

Since there are new Hyperion models comming this was more of an experiment then anything else. So I wasn't too woried about hacking it up.

I picked up the 3rd age fleet box the other day, and as soon as I saw the Hyperion model I sank a bit in my chair. I forgot how bad it was, but it is my favorite ship so I decided to go the extra mile.

Remounted where the base sits and added brass tubes to be the lower gun towers, hacked off the front end of the ship with a razer saw and used the disk sander to level it. Rebuilt the lower front hull with green stuff as well as adding the tiny flares behind the side thruster mounts. Drilled tons of holes for brass rod everywhere. Then it was just a matter of glueing all my little pieces of brass rod on for guns, sensors and what not.

Oh ya I also cut the peg off the base and drilled into the stem replaceing it with a piece of 1/16" brass rod and made sure it was about 1/2 long into the ship. That should keep it from ever breaking...

Ok panel lines...

I wasn't sure at all how I would go about this so here is how I stumbled on it.

Model got a flat black spray base. I then decided that was not going to wait and go buy light grey spray so I broke out the white spray I had and gave it a coat.

My first spray didn't quite cover the black so I was going to go again with white but then thats when the idea hit me. I had some tiny 1/8 masking tape from Tamiya that I have had for years. So I cut some random strips and placed them all over the model in a rough pattern and then gave it another spray of white, peeled my strips and there we go I have a zebryperion

But like the art teacher always said, don't erase work with your mistake. At this stage I grabbed some pale blue grey I had kicking around and started using a small liner brush to make little rectangles & squares all over the ship. Some on the white some on the faded white/black stripes and then some that were half on half off. I also made sure they lines all went the same direction.The effect looked good but with the added grey stripes it looked really dark

Repeating this process with white I did the same again making sure to touch up grey lines that were too fat and devide any larger dark areas with several white panel lines. Once this was done it looked really good I thought :shock: Because the underside will be far less frequently seen if at all I made the pattern below far easier and more geometric just to give the idea it was continued there.

So in the long run my random ideas and first bad paint coat actually worked out better then if I thought it through.

I need a beer now. Then it is dreaded blue line time. I am going to try more of a true blue highlighted with blue grey panels to continue the look, then print some decals, although Griffon games has a sheet they have produced for years now, may just buy that.

 

[Shadow Queen]

the Hyperion looks cool.