When Games Workshop released Cities of Death, they released a set of resin Urban Barricades and Walls. Unlike the Urban Basing Kit it is still available at the time of writing. You got six barricades and they blended in nicely with the plastic ruins which were also released with Cities of Death.
First was a black undercoat. I gave the barricades a Codex Grey drybrush, this was quite a heavy drybrush.
The next stage was to paint and drybrush certain areas.
The earth sections were drybrushed with Scorched Brown, whilst metal parts were picked out with Boltgun Metal.
The paintwork is a little too red and too clean for me, but you never know this may have been a part finished job so that it could be on the table for the show.
When Games Workshop released Cities of Death, they released a set of resin Urban Barricades and Walls. Unlike the Urban Basing Kit it is still available at the time of writing. You got six barricades and they blended in nicely with the plastic ruins which were also released with Cities of Death.
First was a black undercoat. I gave the barricades a Codex Grey drybrush, this was quite a heavy drybrush.
The next stage was to paint and drybrush certain areas.
I painted the broken eagle with Burnished Gold. Painted the walls a grey and highlighted some details with Boltgun Metal.
The earth sections were drybrushed with Scorched Brown.
When Games Workshop released Cities of Death, they released a set of resin Urban Barricades and Walls. Unlike the Urban Basing Kit it is still available at the time of writing. You got six barricades and they blended in nicely with the plastic ruins which were also released with Cities of Death.
One of the key things you need to do with virtually all resin models is to give them a good wash. When the resin models are cast, the mould is given a spray (I guess) of some kind of lubricant to allow the cast model to be released from the mould easily. However the lubricant also acts as a barrier to paint, so as happened with previous models I (and others) have painted is that the paint flecks off. Washing the model in water with a drop of washing up liquid should remove the lubricant. Avoid using hot water as this could warp the resin (a useful tip if you need to warped resin back to its original shape). Once washed the model is then ready for gluing and painting, first was a black undercoat. I gave the barricades a Codex Grey drybrush, this was quite a heavy drybrush.
The next stage was to paint and drybrush certain areas. So on this model I painted the inside walls a dark blue. Rust was added to metal sections using brown paint and ink.
The earth sections were drybrushed with Scorched Brown.
When Games Workshop released Cities of Death, they released a set of resin Urban Barricades and Walls. Unlike the Urban Basing Kit it is still available at the time of writing. You got six barricades and they blended in nicely with the plastic ruins which were also released with Cities of Death.
One of the key things you need to do with virtually all resin models is to give them a good wash. When the resin models are cast, the mould is given a spray (I guess) of some kind of lubricant to allow the cast model to be released from the mould easily. However the lubricant also acts as a barrier to paint, so as happened with previous models I (and others) have painted is that the paint flecks off. Washing the model in water with a drop of washing up liquid should remove the lubricant. Avoid using hot water as this could warp the resin (a useful tip if you need to warped resin back to its original shape). Once washed the model is then ready for gluing and painting, first was a black undercoat. I gave the barricades a Codex Grey drybrush, this was quite a heavy drybrush.
The next stage was to paint and drybrush certain areas. So on this model I painted the door with a green Foundation Paint and then enhanced the shell impacts with Boltgun Metal. Rust was added to metal sections using brown paint and ink.
The earth sections were drybrushed with Scorched Brown.
ITV will start broadcasting the third season of Primeval on the 28th March. With all the cuts taking place at ITV you might expect this to be the last series.
I have enjoyed the first two seasons of Primeval and if you ensure that you don’t take it too seriously it is fun Saturday night television.
It will be interesting to see which direction the third season goes in.
I was in the Bristol Games Workshop today and the manager let me have a peek at the March White Dwarf which is due out this Friday (27th February).
Though I flicked through the mag, the main piece which I looked at was the article on Stompa variants. One of the options you can have is a belly gun (which is something that Gargants have) which makes the mean Stompa even meaner!
If I had the money (and the time) I would love to have a horde of Stompas, though I expect I would also have to buy Simon some Shadowswords to compensate for them
Whippets were first used in action near Herbetune in northern France on 26 March 1918 to help stem the German offensive when twelve “Whippets” near Colincamps surprised and put to flight two German infantry battalions.
But the Mk As really came to the fore in August 1918 when some 96 Whippets of the 3rd Tank Brigade were used during the Battle for Amiens. Although cavalry horses were still faster and better able to cope with rough, muddy terrain, Whippets proved more of a match for serious opposition.
One such Whippet, “Musical Box”, belonging to B Coy, 6th Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant C.B. Arnold, took part in the big attack on August 8, 1918, overtook the slow Mk V:s, routed a German Artillery Battery and on it’s own penetrated to the rear of the German lines. Essentially the lonely Whippet, with its bold crew of only three men, carried on a war of its own. It shot down retiring infantry, attacked horse and motor transport – even ramming a German lorry into a stream -and regularly terrorised the bewildered “Boche”. This went on for eleven hours, and then the tank was first immobilised, surrounded and then destroyed by fire from field artillery. Arnold and one of his crew survived, and were taken prisoners.
