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Specialist Games General Discussion => Modeling & painting => Topic started by: berzerkmonkey on November 04, 2014, 02:01:48 PM
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Just a little somethin' I'm working on:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yjNv523hdWM/VFedFyaeX5I/AAAAAAAACyQ/LHRFRdfvJF0/s640/20141103_065824.jpg)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Alf8DPqJx0I/VFemRGIzY_I/AAAAAAAACy0/jUHPLthst7w/s640/20140901_200631.jpg)
I'm hoping to have them completed by the 15th so they can sail against Dave's Empire fleet.
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Yar, a sorry bunch of landlubbers as I ever set my eyes upon. Yar.
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Nice colors,
which fleet is it?
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The Bretonnians - what? You can't tell with all that yellow? :P
Painting the cannon is up next, as well as the masts and sails. I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to print the sails, or paint them by hand...
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The nice thing about the Bret's is that you can get away with plain paper:
(http://www.stephane.info/res/article/bretonnian_fleet/Bretonnian_galleon.jpg)
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So many sails... :o
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Wasn't that a Primus tune? :D
MoW - still my favourite set of GW produced rules.
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'Twas in fact an album by Primus, but you're close enough to win the grand prize!*
*Please note "grand prize" contains no prize, whatsoever.
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I never had the pleasure of playin Man o War, although I used to pour over the catalogues and imagine what it might have been like to own a fleet.
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Lots fun, pretty simply. There's a lot of tokens and cards but you really don't need most of it. We've gotten by with printed cards in toploaders and dry erase markers. Buy in is pretty cheap, assuming you don't go and buy things with "Buy it now" you can get a fleet for under $100USD. I got some pics from this past weekend that I'll be posting soon.
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Dave you are a terrible influence!
I need that money to buy your miniatures. =-P
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Nice to see Bretonnians- they're a very expensive fleet to buy now (or at least were last I looked).
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BzkM - What did you use for the ocean bases and what colours did you use? Will the ships sit flat on those bases?
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The bases are plastic card, cut to size. I used a Tamiya plastic scriber (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002KKBVTC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002KKBVTC&linkCode=as2&tag=dirfir-20&linkId=OIH3BTVNN4YYGCEO (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002KKBVTC/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002KKBVTC&linkCode=as2&tag=dirfir-20&linkId=OIH3BTVNN4YYGCEO)) for the first time and it made plastic cutting a breeze - I highly recommend picking one up.
The waves were made by mixing some wood putty with water, spreading it on the card, and tapping my finger on the putty. This created the peaks of the waves - I just did it until I was satisfied with the look. I don't have a ratio for water to putty for you - you just have to add a little water at a time until the putty does what you need it to do. You won't get waves if the putty is too thick/dry, so you have to experiment. I suppose I can state that the consistency is like a thin peanut butter. Fortunately, you can just scrape the putty off and keep mixing until you get things correct. I believe Dave used a similar process for his bases, but his seas are smoother. :)
The colors on the bases are a little off - they are tending way toward white in the photo, when they look more graduated in real life. I used the old Citadel flip top paints, so it probably won't do me much good to track them down and tell you. What I will tell you is that I primed them black, painted them with a thinned dark blue, then drybrushed them with a lighter blue, then a lighter drybrush of a blue-grey, then finally a very light drybrush of white. I'll see if I can figure out which paints I used and annotate this post - as usual, I didn't write down the recipe.
As for sitting flat, the waves aren't really that tall. I had originally planned on just setting the ships on the bases as the putty dried, but I was afraid of ruining the bases. They are only raised by a slight bit, and I should be able to scrape down any offending waves with a hobby knife or judicious use of a dremel tip in an electric screwdriver.
I've got plans to also help hide any gaps between the ships and the bases - I'll detail those later as I do them.
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Yeah, it looks a bit like my vehicle bases for Epic. The plan was always to just glue the things on top AFTER I painted them/ textured them.
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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pspZOwAe4ZI/VGZsCN-y_uI/AAAAAAAACzc/LSMVv0lMGmI/s640/20141110_062729%2520%2528Large%2529.jpg)
Actually, I'm a little further along than the photo would lead you to believe. All but one set of Corsairs have sails and the only things remaining are to add pennants and attach to the bases and touch things up.
I drew up new sails in Photoshop and added a nice gradient to them for a little visual pop. Sadly, you can't tell that in the photo, and it isn't too noticeable in real life either. Bummer.
On the Buccaneers are some masts I had printed up at Shapeways. I think they came out pretty well - they're a little rough due to the material selection, but I think they are a good replacement for the impossible to get original masts. I used up almost my entire supply of masts and yards on this fleet - not sure what I'm going to do for my other fleets now...
All in all, I will have two Galleons, two squadrons of Corsairs (6 ships,) and four squadrons of Buccaneers (12 ships!) That's a lot of sails and pennants...
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I can notice the gradient, either that or it's natural shadow. Looks good either way though. I hope they swabbed their poop decks in preparation for the thorough rogering my Empire is going to administer.
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Their poop decks are absolutely gleaming, I can assure you. You just make sure you have plenty of caulk in hand to repair all the holes I'm going to pound into your keel.
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Hmmm very nice. It won't be too hard to play them with the same colour ? You will add different sails ?
My bretos are more like historical painting. Black, mainly, with red sails.
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Pennants, my man! http://www.forum.specialist-arms.com/index.php?topic=6732.0
I haven't finished the ships yet, so I didn't post any pics here.
I was thinking of going historical, but I'm finding crazy bright colors work better for smaller scales.
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I see you uses Litko markers too. I love to have them for my MOW games. Always pleasant to see flourish missed shot markers around your ships :D