What Have You Painted Today??

[AdrianH]

Shadow Scout. As others have found, putting the spines on was tricky. I used quick-setting epoxy, which acted as both adhesive and filler. For painting, the ship was first sprayed with overall gunmetal, then lightly sprayed with black to give the fine-grain mottled effect.

I used this page as reference for angling the spines.

The Scout is one of the ships from my newly arrived Shadows boxed fleet set. All the stands in the box are the pivoting ball-and-socket type, which is a bit of a waste for the Scouts since the socket won't fit between the lower spines - fortunately the ball and socket can be left out to make a more traditional stand.

 

[CheesyRobMan]

A Sulust and 6 FA Havens, which are *tiny*.

 

[Shadow Queen]

1 War Globe for charles I wish I didnt have to go shopping. 4 hours for a week of shopping......

 

[hegemon]

I painted 16 US Army Infanteer's all 1/72, pics comeing later, only got 3 squads of americans to go, then i've got 5 squads of Brit and German, to get painted for saturday, oh god, lots of work to do.

 

[Rob_A]

Builidng a bloody great frame for my art exam on Tuesday.
Uh-oh...

Also sculpting some stuff on some Flintloque toads.

I might dig out my old airfix kits for W@W.

 

[M1ndr1d3rs]

1 War Globe for charles I wish I didnt have to go shopping. 4 hours for a week of shopping......

Pics would be nice... I still owe u the Whitestars pics, but my friend and I haven't quite gotten the hang of the macro thing

 

[Shadow Queen]

as soon as I can hon.

 

[CheesyRobMan]

A Sulust and 6 FA Havens, which are *tiny*.

Now uploaded pic.

 

[Shadow Queen]

been slowly working on a Crusade fleet, 1 Warlock**, 2 Omegas* **, 1 Command Omega**, 1 Explorer, 2 Marathons, 1 Bombardment Cruiser, 1 Strike Cruiser**, 1 Delphi* **, 1 Hyperion**.

* 1 more on its way some place.

**Painted 1 or 2

 

[AdrianH]

I'm still building up my Shadow fleet. Here the Scout is joined by a second, along with a couple of bigger brothers.

Some of the spines on the Ships are bent downwards. Particularly the largest spines on the mid and lower sections; to a lesser extent the second largest spines on the same sections.

This is also a good opportunity to mention a rather useful photo-processing utility, Combine ZM. If you're photographing a fleet, or even a single large model close up, you're likely to find it impossible to get the whole lot in focus. So, provided your camera allows manual focus or the ability to choose where on the frame to focus, you take several shots focusing on different models or parts of the model. A tripod or some other secure rest is essential as the shots must be identical apart from the focus point. Then you feed them into Combine ZM and let it work its magic; it finds the parts of each shot which are sharp and merges them into a single sharp photo.

It's also resource-hungry. The older Combine Z5 may work better on some machines.

 

[Shadow Queen]

look nice, do i see a hint of blue?

 

[CheesyRobMan]

FA-scale Vorlon Light Cruiser - the mottling looks a bit more subdued in these photos than IRL but you can hopefully see it.

 

[AdrianH]

look nice, do i see a hint of blue?

Thanks! No, they're all painted the same way as the first Scout, which appears again in the fleet photo as the Scout on the left. I didn't quite manage to compensate for the colour balance problems of artificial light and shooting against a mainly yellow background, that's all.

 

[Shadow Queen]

look nice, do i see a hint of blue?

Thanks! No, they're all painted the same way as the first Scout, which appears again in the fleet photo as the Scout on the left. I didn't quite manage to compensate for the colour balance problems of artificial light and shooting against a mainly yellow background, that's all.

ah could be the flash.

 

[AdrianH]

Unlikely as I didn't use a flash.

There was also a window nearby, so blue sky may have affected the highlights.

 

[Shadow Queen]

thats odd...

 

[Banichi]

Cleaning the flash off the last of the falkosi fighters (managed not to tread on any today) I got last month. I think the mold for these fighters must be on its last legs, they are some of the flashiest minies I have ever seen.

 

[CheesyRobMan]

Finished off some GW Sisters.

 

[Shadow Queen]

"Burn Baby Burn!!!" clean paint job, our group is about to do a GORKAMORKA!!! Session.... (Just need da Orcs)

 

[boomgoose]

Finished some pak 40 AT guns for my 1/72 Germans. Now, here's hoping the rulebook arrives in the mail this holiday weekend. 8)