Posts made by jwo1984

heres some weathering on some as “Tall Paul” coined “Seno-RITA’s”  I like too do the edges of the wings and tail wings…aswell as the front of the noses.  Its also good too have a good contrast in color for the weathering, dark greens, blues, browns otherwise the silver paint kinda gets washed out.  I also try and stay away from weathering the heavy camo schemes…otherwise it just gets too busy IMHO

so here are some examples of where I would use my first fine detailing brush…I use the edge of the thin brush for painting the silver on along the front wing tips of aircraft…also for edges I want worn out on tanks as well…

thanks again LLhoffman, cyanight, spitefire38 and john brown.  Glad that the planes look to you guys how I wanted them too….battle weary and weathered! Spitefire38 you asked if I could go into some more detail about the silver paint effect and all that so I thought I would put together a few examples of what I’ve done, brushes used, and how I applied…using your thorough painting tutorial thread as my template…sorta

so below are my BIG three! I have tons of brushes but for some reason I only use these three for everything lol…

hey guys, just the last two units of the brits airpower the fairey Barracuda’s.  These were fun too paint…wanted too make them look weathered from missions off the flight deck of the Ark royal, so added some silver paint to mimic some paint chipping…

thats funny cyanight, I went too panzerichiffe too and bought some carrirers and battleships and the 1 2400 scale was way too big! but they had so many ships tho, I really wanted to buy and paint the French battle ship jean bart….luckily HBG is working on a French set that includes her.

I know what you mean Cyanight, I’ve been trolling through shapeways aswell but everything carrier and ship wise seems way outta scale! I really want too find a Lexington class carrier. They just have such a distinct visual difference to the other us carrier classes. I tried to custom build one out of the OOB wasp class…. It’s alright but really would like a mould! So many carrier classes for the Japanese they look great swarming the pacific sea zones… We just need the other naval heavyweight Uncle Sam too get some carrier love too!

Awesome John brown! Thanks for really spear heading this project! Havin those Union jacks stickers too scale would be so helpful in so many ways for the brit pieces ! Keep us posted:)

love these! so professional looking! I had a pacific game were my opponent did a complete naval strategy and blockade with his IJN forces! he must of had like 10 carriers on the board! wipped out my complete painted stock and had too use chips which does not look good for ships!

Man this is perfect! now when I order units from HBG I can order decals too! thanks guys! cuts down on all the shipping from multiple places for us Canadians!  :-D

Thanks for the comments guys appreciate them! Cyanight, looking forward too seeing your british air units when you get the chance, have really enjoyed your work. I really need to get decals too, I hate having too hand bomb the roundles, hopefully john browns union jack source will pull through! CoachofMany thank you for the offer! I love your guys work and hope you keep turning out new pieces and enjoy what we bring too your sculps!  Spitefire38, thanks for the compliment, yes the lines on the wings of the hurricanes, swordfish, and stirling are all free hand.  I have been trying too play around with adding somemore details too the great sculpts.  The stirling bomber of course is quite massive with a large wing so painting a few panel lines wasn’t too bad….I think they add too the ruggedness of these old beautiful birds! I also wanted the hurricanes too look a little rugged as they were the workhorse of the RAF! Same goes for the sword fish bi plane. I really think a good canopy can bring the sculpt too life! so I try and get the best lines I can, the hurricanes are really small so dry brushing them was really tough!

Thanks again guys, will post more units as I finish them.  check out spitefire38’s Japanese infantry if you haven’t yet…they are steller!

Looks like Christmas came early for John brown! Wow spitefire those infantry are some of the best I’ve seen on here! I love the Browns you used for their uniforms and the accented details and dark washes. The bases of the men too are superb! There must be 40 some units you painted?! I’m inspired great work!

Stirling heavy bomber….

swordfish……id like to purchase a bunch of these and use them as all british AC aircraft for my games

Hello artist’s  customizers and enthusiasts!  I know I wasn’t the only one patiently waiting for that HBG british supplement set to finally arrive so that we can finally get some color on them! Just wanted to post a few in progress pics of some of the units I have finished over the weekend. I started with the air…as is my fav, and will continue from there.  Looking forward too seeing some of the other great talent on this forum and see their painted british pieces aswell!

Great job on the Japanese Cyanight! I like how you have chosen all the nagato battleships but just have the ONE Yamato ! I have done the same in my game ! Makes that one piece extra special!

yes as I am sure guys like LLhoffman and spitefire38 can attest too hand bombing union jacks with all the rings and tiny red dot in the middle on a spitefire or hurricane piece is not fun lol

thanks for the update john brown and for you effort in finding out if smaller sizes are possible!

thanks john brown for the info! any chance you have come across some super small scale union jacks?  like ones that would fit on the fuselage of HBG’s new hawker hurricanes or some OBB spitefires?? all the rings yellow blue white and red dot next too impossible to paint on such a small surface.  Painted my hurricanes this weekend but just not happy with the jacks.

what round are you in here? Russia looks frightening! Im assuming the Wehrmacht didn’t do too well in barbarossa

Hmm interesting cynight…. I recieved 4 hurricane fighters with my set… Is that standard with the order?  Thanks for the boiling water method I will try that this weekend and hopefully be Painting some units this weekend :)