TMP Vehicle Exchange

Ok recently on the TMP we have had a Miniatures exchange Featuring 15mm Vehicles. 

This is what I got from D. Gilbert, A loverly Infinity bot accompanied by four gents who by their dress and mix of equipement are some flavor of Post-Apocalyptic Miltia and bit of terrain. 

This is What I sent to Mr. Jeff Worley. Yes he got the bus. And my interpretation of Marcus from Borderlands, and looking at the picture It looks like I missed painting the headlamps.....

I hope Mr Worley is as happy with the Bus as I am with what I got.

Rumination about what is.

I just rediscovered Sean Patten's web site IronHand.com it give lots of material for the ol' brain mill. In other things the paint table keeps getting occluded by those little nasty house maintenance chores that seem to expand fill otherwise useful hobby time.

So my real question is why does it take me so long to get anything painted?

I will sit and build like there is no tomorrow. But once a project gets to paint it slows down....

Well the boy is gone all tomorrow, I get to chain myself to the table and make some head way...

Hopefully I will have pictures to post by sunday.

Commentary on Painting Wear

Well I wandered around the web looking for idea on how to paint battered, aged and much loved vehicles of the wastelands. There are several "Ork" tutorials and a very nice on Ramshackle Games web site. Unfortunately they are geared towards 28mm scale vehicles, so some of the techniques described are a little (Ok a lot!) fiddly with 15mm vehicles. So I am adapting the ones that give the best result.

The pictured Outrider from Old Crow Models is an exercise in perfecting the chipped paint effect. (Steps after Pictures (still figuring out Style))

Steps used to get to the point of the pictures. I am using Vallejo's Game Color through out these steps.

1. Primed in Black
2. Heavy drybrush with Gunmetal
3. Successively lighter drybrushing with Hammered Copper, Orange Fire (with Metallic Medium), Chainmail Silver
4. Using Ghost Gray roughly stipple in the areas where the paint is intact
5. Then go back over the areas Stippled with the gray with Blood Red, using a stippling motion also, leaving bits of the grey showing through at the edges and center.
6. A little dab of blue on the lens and nothing else

Things to remember are try to keep thing fairly bright in tone, as washes will be applied later in the paint process and will darken it.

This is experimentation in progress, looks good so far. I any body has suggestions I would love to hear them.

Raider APC

Here is a couple of views of the tricked out Airfix 1/76th scale M113. Which is a good stand in for Games Workshop's Rhino. The Gunner, Automatic Grenade Launcher, metal cases are from Ground Zero Games. The Gunner and Gun is NAC Doorgunner, the cases are in the stowage pack.

Here it is with paint and attempts to paint distress and weathering on said vehicle.

Not done but a work in progress.

This also My 1st picture post...