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Booyah- posted:Really nice colors, that balance between the sand and grey underneath is exactly what I'm going for with my 15mm panzer
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Ilor posted:Thanks! It's a surprisingly easy effect to achieve; just get your tan the way you want it, then stipple on the grey, concentrating on edges, corners, and anything likely to see significant wear. I also lightly underlined the grey bits with my edge highlight color to give the scuffed areas a little depth, but I think at 15mm that would be overkill (and also maybe a little hard to get thin enough lines to look right at scale). Cool, do you drybrush the edges after stippling the grey or is all that finished with the tan beforehand?
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Booyah- posted:Cool, do you drybrush the edges after stippling the grey or is all that finished with the tan beforehand? 1) VMC US Field Drab (base coat, applied with an airbrush) 2) VMC Green Ochre (stippled heavily, gives the armor a slightly mottled look) 3) VMC Buff (light drybrush, primarily picking out edges. I also edge highlight hatches and panels with this color) 4) VMC Dark Grey (light stippling, concentrating on edges and wear areas) 5) VMC Buff (very narrow underlining of some grey areas to add visual depth) Then it's just details - road wheels, tracks, exhaust (which is always super rusty), tools strapped to deck, etc.
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Ilor posted:I completely finish the tan first. My process is: Awesome, thanks for the recipe.
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Phi230 posted:You stipple with a sponge?
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Played a few games after wrapping up the Band of Brothers BA starter set and building a boatload of terrain and ready to expand a bit. Placed an order with NWS. Think I'm set on Bolt Action for awhile. German Grenadiers Starter Army 1000PT Soviet Starter Army US Airborne Bazooka & Light Mortar Teams US Airborne HQ Command US Paratrooper Squad 4x Pathfinders (Carbine, Garand, SIgnal Gun, Thompson) M4 Sherman Warlord Wrecked House Sarissa Small House Sarissa Destroyed Small House Sarissa Destroyed Terrace Shop Sarissa Russian Village Bundle Order Dice - Olive Drab Order Dice - Grey Bolt Action Dice Bag Armies of the Soviet Union Armies of Germany Armies of the US In other news, here's a lend-lease M3 I painted the other day. 
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How should I go about painting US Army vehicles? From what little I know, you start with Olive Drab but Vallejo only produces this in Model Air and Surface Primer. I don't have an airbrush. What am I missing?
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First Time Caller posted:How should I go about painting US Army vehicles? You can paint either of those on with a brush if you want to. The surface primer can go straight on the plastic and needs to be thinned, but the model air can't and doesn't. edit: They also do make it in regular VMC paint. http://www.thewarstore.com/Vallejo-Model-Color-17ml-USA-Olive-Drab-M091.html long-ass nips Diane fucked around with this message at 21:46 on May 15, 2018 |
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First Time Caller posted:How should I go about painting US Army vehicles? You can paint both of those on with a brush. As an alternative, Army Painter has Army Green in dropper and aerosol, and AK Interactive does a US Army box set
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But if you're going to be painting vehicles, getting yourself an airbrush is a fantastic investment.
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Painting large flat surfaces with a brush is just asking for trouble. Brushstrokes everywhere
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zokie posted:Painting large flat surfaces with a brush is just asking for trouble. Brushstrokes everywhere Thin your paints!!!
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Army Painter Army Green is too green to be olive drab imo. It is a dark green, but olive drab is more of a greenish brown.Phi230 posted:Thin your paints!!! Getting even coverage on a large flat surface with a brush is a ton of work requiring so many layers, always go with a aerosol or airbrush when basecoating vehicles if you can. Geisladisk fucked around with this message at 22:43 on May 15, 2018 |
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I start with VMC US Dark Green, then highlight up from there.
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Serotonin posted:I always use Vallejo brown violet for US vehicles I had the opportunity to match an old WW2 era training aid against the Vallejo color chart and this was the closest match. It is also a close match to krylon special purpose ultra-flat olive, if you need it in a rattlecan. E: It was a scale training model of an AFV painted in OD green. Fun!
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Just did a bunch of U.S. vehicles in brown Violet myself, looks great
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This sort of discussion is serendipitous for me, since I oathed a stupid amount of tanks this month and I was unsure which colour to go through. I probably should get around to getting an airbrush, though, since it seems like that's something of a necessity for this sort of thing. Well, in future, for this batch I decided to stick with my PSC spraypaints, considering the apparent risks I'm hearing about brushstrokes on vehicles. Unfortunately my US Armour spraypaint kind of...leaked, but on the plus side I can try out my vallejo paints on the actual can to see which matches best for any detail work. Small side note: turns out that the PSC British & US Armour sprays are surprisingly close in colour. I think I'll use the British one for my Firefly, though. Speaking of Brown Olive vs. US Dark Green, I have some US Paratroopers I'm working on and I've got 2 different paint guides for the M43 Uniform, one which is saying to use Brown Violet for the uniforms & Dark Green for the helmets (that's Artizan Designs), and another for the other way around (Flames of War). Which one should I go with? I actually have both 28mm & 15mm to work with, should I stick with one scheme across both scales or go with different ones for different scales (since after all those are two different scale manufacturers)? I also got a Scale75 paintset for late war US Army which would also be appropriate for the M43 uniform, but I'm not a super big fan of their super matt finish. Please help me figure out the appropriate shade of green for US Airborne in late 1944, goons!
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Yeah the US and UK vehicles were painted basically the same colour as a base. Camo patterns applied over that changed things a bit, but not too much.
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Arquinsiel posted:Yeah the US and UK vehicles were painted basically the same colour as a base. Camo patterns applied over that changed things a bit, but not too much. IIRC they also faded differently, but that's possibly different dirt.
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All kinds of things affect the weathering, so it could be literally anything from thinner used to the boot rubber of the crews. Also the British stuff started to have a "black" mickey-mouse pattern applied over the base olive green at some point in late 43-early 44, so that would also affect wear.
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Yeah, I remember reading that the British mixture faded a brighter green than the U.S.one. I'd say use brown violet for the helmets, and green for the uniforms on the airborne. What are people's opinions on Battlegroup Overlord?
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Battlegroup is solid. Look into getting the core and give it a whirl.
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Is there a good, fun ACW ironclads game that isn't like doing corporate taxes?
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muggins posted:Is there a good, fun ACW ironclads game that isn't like doing corporate taxes? Hammerin' Iron!
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Seems odd that Elementary did an episode with a Neo-Nazi wargamer, and had the dude be a Napoleonics gamer rather than a WWII gamer. I get why they avoided warhams, but it seems an odd period to pick.
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Arquinsiel posted:Seems odd that Elementary did an episode with a Neo-Nazi wargamer, and had the dude be a Napoleonics gamer rather than a WWII gamer. I get why they avoided warhams, but it seems an odd period to pick. what
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A plot point was they tracked down the leader of a Neo-Nazi gang by finding him at a wargames tournament. It's... TV.
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i think hes talking about that bbc sherlock holmes show with the big schnoz guy
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:i think hes talking about that bbc sherlock holmes show with the big schnoz guy
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I think he meant this. The "modern Sherlock Holmes actually set in England" has Benedict Cucumber batch, who's a weird looking alien infiltrator with a very regular nose. JcDent fucked around with this message at 05:56 on May 20, 2018 |
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It's obviously because Napoleonics is the master race of historicals 
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JcDent posted:I think he meant [url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2191671/]this[/b].
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i knew there was a nose related reason why i remembered himquote:“His nose was entirely wrong apparently,” Gatiss continued. but yes i was actually being anti semetic toward a non jewish englisman 
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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:but yes i was actually being anti semetic toward a non jewish englisman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQvjKqXA0Y
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anyone know where I could pick up a ww2 luftwaffee pilot/plane crew? I know about these Perrys https://www.perry-miniatures.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=luftwaffe&search_in_description=1&x=0&y=0
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I have officially become Old and want to try and convince my friends to buy dumb roman miniatures because we all like Total War. The question is, which would be a better introduction to tiny historicals, Field of Glory, or Hail Caesar? (Or another game if there is one). We're okay with rules being a bit complicated, since I have lots of time on my hands to read a rulebook cover to cover 8 times and relay the information. We'll probably be going for 15mm, and from my understanding is most of those games are interchangeable for sizes in case we do something else (maybe I can convince them to go 6mm!) We always play as a group, with either 2v2 or 2v1 depending on how many show up, so if theres a game that has good team rules it would be a very good added bonus but it's not necessary to have that.
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