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Starfury · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 302

My painters block has lifted with a rash of relatively nice days I've manged to paint an ISC DN and a few smaller ships. Got 4 ISC CA in progress (Dk Green, Gunmetal, Met. Blue, and a sorta light purple). A pile of Gorn are primed gray/black ready to go. Also a few Fed ships.

I did discover after messing with many different gray paints...the flat gray spray paint from WalMart is the perfect color if you're doing a battleship gray type paint job. All you have to do is detail it.

As for the Starfighterace decals, I'll probably use the hull circles/numbers and that's about it. Some I'll just use some random 40k decals.

I also have an Orange Fed NCA I'm working on.

I will post pics of them eventually.

Scoutdad · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject:

Last week, my wife got tired of listening to me complain about the noise in the garage where I do my work - [possibly the cause of the painters block?] and told me to go to Home Depot and do something about it. Well, after 8 days of packing and moving stuff out, then building an enclosed workroom, and then moving back in a unpacking - I have completed the work-room (except for hanging the door) and can't wait to get back to painting.

My daughter and grand-kids are in town from noon today until Tuesday mornign so I won't get much done tehn, but after that I'm off work until January 2, 2008 - so look forward to some new items coming soon.
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Mike · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:07 am Post subject:

I spent part of yesterday and today doing some painting of some minis. These are the first ones I've ever done, though I've done large plastic models since I was a kid. Boy, the old eyesight really took a beating on these!

Anyway, I finalized 4 Fed NCLs, 2 Fed CLs, a Fed Police ship, 2 Kzinti ships, and have the base coats done for a couple of Lyrans, 3 Gorns, 2 Romulans, and 2 Klingons. And only one more day until school starts again! Drats!

djdood · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:42 am Post subject:

Mazza · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject:

I got over my painter's block these holidays too. I painted up my Klingon fleet and a couple of long neglected Warhammer 40,000 figures. Waiting for my decals to arrive so that I can get stuck into the Feds, and I'd really like to paint some more Kzinti...
Very Happy

Scoutdad · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject:

Sunday morning, I decided to start painting some miniatures (Battletech, this time)...

So I get my work desk set-up - i.e., paper on the surface, lights positioned properly, etc...
I get out the airbrush and 3 bottles of Tamaiya olive green paint...
I mix all three bottles into one larger bottle, thin it to the proper consistency, and re-pour into the seperate bottles and seal...
I line up the first 45 mechs to be base coated (196 in this round)...
I pour the first 1.0 ounce bottle of paint into the airbrush bottle...
and promptly drop it!
As it's falling I snap my hand out to catch it, but miss and instead bat it onto my leg and then off onto the floor where the bottle shatters!!!
Attempting (unsuccessfully, as the green bob on my khaki-colored pants can attest to) to avoid the incoming paint bomb - I jump upand backwards...
At this point, I knock the table about severely!
The other two bottles of olive green paint roll off onto the floor and break, as do two Riflemen and a Madcat. Embarassed

So much for painting today. Guess I'll try again this weekend. Wink

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djdood · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject:

Combat damage. Crying or Very sad

toastie · Lieutenant SG Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 120

If that happened to me, I think Painter's Block would set in again.....

Starfury · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 302

Scoutdad: What do you DO with that many miniatures? Back in the day when I did SFB I only had about 160 total ships. Even the 40k marines I've painted don't come up to that number....and how do you afford all that metal?

As for the paint bomb: when I lived at home (many moons ago) there was a very nice gray stain on the carpet from a spilled jar of paint.

Scoutdad · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject:

Mike · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:24 am Post subject:

I was thinking about posting some pics of the minis I recently painted, but I couldn't find the right combination of settings on my camera to take a good picture. I tried several different configurations, but none gave a clear result.

One other thing I noticed was the color shifting that occurred with the Kzinti ships. I painted the "head" and engines red and the long main part of the ships dark red, but in the pictures I took parts of them looked pink. I'm color blind and they looked green to me, but my wife said they were pink.

Any suggestions?!!!