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Buying some paint

I was shading my new Predator (and Rhino). I used some Citadel Reikland Fleshshade Shade, however after shading most of the models I ran out of paint.

I was in town, so went to MT Games and they were charging £5.00 for a pot of Citadel Reikland Fleshshade Shade.

Now in the Games Workshop stores (or is it Warhammer Stores) in Bristol the cost is £4.75.

My usual place to buy paint is The Games Bunker who sell the same paint pots at the discounted price of £4.05.

In the end I did buy the paint from MT Games, if I was buying a few pots then I probably would have made a special trip to The Games Bunker and saved myself a few pennies.

As I have been washing and shading some large models recently, such as the buildings I got in Warhammer Imperium and my Deimo-pattern Rhino I have realised that my mop brush is a little too small. I was finding that the wash or shade was getting patchy.

So I think I will go and get a bigger mop brush, not too big as it still has to fit into the pots of shade I have.

I will be using it on my Land Raiders, the Repressor, and the Munitorum Armoured Containers.

How to paint Ork skin

Nice video from GW on how to paint Ork skin.

Painting High Elves

In addition to the Army Book for the High Elves for the iPad, Games Workshop have also produced a painting guide to the new High Elves.

The High Elves march to war as a glittering host, bedecked in the full and vibrant panoply of war. This How to Paint book contains eight detailed guides including High Elf Spearmen, Dragon Princes, the Lothern Skycutter, and the noble Sisters of Avelorn – using the Citadel paint range. These techniques can be used to help you paint any models in the High Elf range, and get your army ready for the battlefield.

These guides are a really useful aid, if you like an effect or colour scheme on the models in the Army Book and want to replicate them on your own models.

~~Get How to Paint Citadel Miniatures: High Elves from the iBookstore.~~ sadly no longer available

Paint problems…

So there I was going to spray some models using some spray cans when disaster struck…

Well not quite disaster, but certainly did not work as smoothly as it should have done.

First up I was going to undercoat some models with white paint. I had a new can from Hobbycraft and the nozzle had broken. I didn’t realise so as a result paint didn’t go through the nozzle but squirted and dripped over the can… In the end I found an older can of Citadel white spray and used that, which worked fine.

Next up was some Flames of War British armour. I had purchased the Warpaint can of British Armour Green and this worked just fine, and as it should be.

Then onto some Late War Germans. However this can of Warpaint German Armour was missing it’s nozzle entirely… Well did I send it back to the supplier, in this case Maelstrom Games? Hmmm, in the end I took a nozzle off an older can of empty spray and used that. Didn’t work perfectly and took a few attempts to get a decent spray going, but the German models did in the end get done.

So what should have been a quick and easy undercoating and basecoating session turned into a bit of a nightmare.

It be a tractor

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So why oh why am I posting a photograph of a tractor to this blog?

Good question.

However if you are painting engines or power plants or generators this image can be used to ensure that your engine looks realistic. Look at the rust patterns for example.

Spraying models

Have just spent a good hour undercoating various models. Some with a white undercoat and others with a black undercoat. I also took the opportunity to give my Ork Desert Fort a spray of dark red.

Once they are dry will take some photographs which will eventually appear on the workbench feature of my website and here on the blog.

It’s a messy affair…

I do like to spray my models to undercoat them, as I find that the paint sticks better to the bare resin, plastic, metal as opposed to using a brush.

I do not like to spray my models, as no matter how I use the spray can, I seem to get in a real mess with paint dripping from the can, over my hands, on the floor, all over the place!

I now put a plastic (sandwich) bag over my hand when using spray cans, as it can be such a messay affair.

Am I alone or do you have problems with spray paint?

It's a messy affair…

I do like to spray my models to undercoat them, as I find that the paint sticks better to the bare resin, plastic, metal as opposed to using a brush.
I do not like to spray my models, as no matter how I use the spray can, I seem to get in a real mess with paint dripping from the can, over my hands, on the floor, all over the place!
I now put a plastic (sandwich) bag over my hand when using spray cans, as it can be such a messay affair.
Am I alone or do you have problems with spray paint?

Painting Tanks, well an Ork Gunwagon

In my recent Painting Tanks blog entry I said:

I am now thinking that maybe I should give my tanks a black undercoat and then use something like Tausept Ochre from the Foundation Paints range for the base coat. I would follow this with a wash (as above) and then highight with a lighter brown, before weathering the tanks.

After thinking about this for some time, I remembered that I had my Ork Gunwagon, and it was undercoated black. So it was out with the paints and here is the initial result.