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After realising I had not thought about the rear of the VSF Tunnelling Machine, I decided to paint it with a basecoat of Boltgun Metal.
When I first looked at the model I did initially think that the rear of the model was some kind of boiler so I was going to do it very dark. However upon reflection I think it is actually just the rear of the vehicle, what I thought was the firebox is in fact the rear access hatch.
I do like this model and think it certainly looks the part.
I did think about how to paint the roof of my Total Battle Miniatures ruined row of three houses, in the end I thought that terracotta tiles would look very effective, probably more so than slate. So I gave the roof tiles a basecoat of Citadel Terracotta.
Looking at the Total Battle Miniatures photograph, I might repaint the “complete” roof with grey slate.
The next stage will be a dark wash.
Space Marines who excel in the fury of close combat are organised into Assault squads and equipped with jump packs that allow them to take the fight to the enemy in brutal close-quarter fighting. Armed with a mixture of pistols and swords, they are terrifying foes in battle, dropping from above like flaming angels of death.
I was given a box of the Space Marine Assault Squad by my son, after thinking about painting them as Grey Knights I decided in the end to paint them as “normal” Marines. I wanted the bases to be different so made use of the resin pieces I had got from various basing kits and from the Mines, Bombs and Booby Traps box.
The plastic models look relatively simple to construct, but I always seem to get caught out sticking on the arms and shoulder pads with GW Space Marines.
First stage was fixing the legs to the torso.
I then made up the jetpacks.
These were then affixed to the Marine bodies.
I do like the beaky helmets, problem for nostalgic reasons… pity you only get one in the box.
I started painting the tracks on my Victorian Science Fiction Steam Tank with Chaos Black.
The reason they are half done is that I needed to hold onto one end as I painted them.
The plan is to then drybrush them with Boltgun Metal. They are not attached in the photograph, this will make it easier to paint the hull.
Still painting my Foundry Gunfighters, this is Choctaw Charley.
Though I painted the drill on my VSF Tunnelling Machine with a basecoat of Boltgun Metal, for the tracks I decided to use my usual method of a black basecoat. Like the tracks this was quite a challenging area to ensure it was fully painted.
This will then be drybrushed with Boltgun Metal.
Having undercoated my Ironclad Miniatures Victorian Science Fiction Tunnelling Machine, I painted the drill using Boltgun Metal.
This is a different process to the way I would usually paint something like this. Normally I would give the metal parts a black undercoat and then drybrush with Boltgun Metal. This time I am intending to use a black wash.
This is quite a difficult part to paint, as due to the design it is very easy to miss bits as you paint. I found rotating across the three dimensions certainly helped avoiding missing bits with the paint.
Having undercoated the Total Battle Miniatures 15mm ruined shop with passage I then added a base coat to cover the rubble and the broken parts of the walls.
I will then paint some of the detail before giving the model a wash using a brown wash.
I intend to add more debris, using wood and plasticard, as well as some printed signs and posters.
I really enjoyed both watching the Sharpe TV series
The first thing I did was base them using two pence pieces and Citadel Sand.
I will be using them as they were in the Penisular War, so will be giving them gravelly bases with some brush grass.
I was lucky enough to get for one Christmas a few years back two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws. I am still in the process of painting the models using a variety of colours.
Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery and Old West Workbench.