OK, so after two years I've finally given in to having a section of the FORUM specifically set up to discuss painting techniques, display examples, show your latest projects and chat about this vital part of the hobby. Manufacturers please feel free to post up your sculpts, ask questions about what the gamers are after and generally promote your work.. no charge! Painters, please also feel free to post up your work for comment and critique. I can't promise the unreserved adulation characteristic of some other fora but I would hope you'd get constructive and measured comment!
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by PaulMc » Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:51 pm
Hi folks,
I've recently finished a Warfare Miniatures positional gun and I'm quite happy with the result.
More pics on my blog.
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by toggy » Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:32 am
Really great stuff Paul, these big guns look really good in a fixed position don't they.
Bob
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by Churchill » Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:45 am
Ray.
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by obriendavid » Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:46 am
PaulMc wrote:Hi folks,
I've recently finished a Warfare Miniatures positional gun and I'm quite happy with the result.
And so you should be! this looks great!
You're fairly starting to rattle through these figures and once I finish another 8 turks for my Crimean unit I hope to make a start on some Jacobites.
Cheers
Dave
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by PaulMc » Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:15 pm
Thanks very much everybody! I love the Warfare guns, in fact 17th century cannon in general, with the big "chunky" (for want of a better term) look about them.
Dave I'll look forward to seeing more of your Crimean range hopefully soon. They are really great, especially the French as I love their army of the mid 19th century as you know.
Ray, it'll be great to see the rest of your force for Blenheim continue to expand. When do expect to blood them?
Bob I have to admit to being inspired by your Danish gun to get started on mine, I even tried out the Foundry Bronze Barrel paint when I saw your results. The base is partly inspired by Barry's work and partly from a diagram in a book on sieges of the period.
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by toggy » Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:47 pm
Yes Paul the foundry barrel bronze gives an excellent result.
What's next on your Warfare Minis list?
Bob
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by Gunfreak » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:16 pm
THATS ONE BIG - CANNON!
Makes big bertha look like a grashopper gun(ok not quite)
Excelent job, lets hope it wrecks havock among the enemy
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by EvilGinger » Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:45 pm
They dwarf later guns of the same & even larger calibres & one of my future projects will be to get several so I can build an artillery park for my French militia to labour on.
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by azeroth » Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:15 pm
It's horrid and the colours are all wrong, i know this cos of a painting i saw once that was done by some artist 300 years later holding the paint roller in his butt cheeks
Seriously Paul, gorgeous painting and modelling and a pleasure to see these masterpieces in the lead before anyone else does.
Keep them coming
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by barr7430 » Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:29 pm
Can only echo what everyone else here has said and I have had the (brief and rather uncourteous) pleasure of seeing them in the flesh on a whistlestop stop by Paul's house on Sunday after the LoGW en route to here(the Baker's oven aka Dubai). Very rude Paul but I was up against the clock on Father's Day too and Emma had baked me a cake!
Paul has chosen a lovely subdued shade of red, the detail on the gun he has painted is really top drawer. I have photographed his two infantry battalions already (both of which will make it into WI and the BLB Ireland Supplement). If he keeps it coming at this rate he'll be able to fill a chapter of the book all on his own with pix!
FYI Paul, I reset the shots I wanted for your units on a different set up with backdrop etc. They have come out astoundingly well and I am just as proud of the yet unseen pix as you are of your painting. Clarence definitely gave them the thumbs up!
Bring on the Brandenburgers!
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by Gunfreak » Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:20 pm
Why can't I say -, even american tv lets you say -, Bender says bite my shiny metal - all the time.
Can I say arse?
Sorry for the offtopic, just an odd word to censore
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by barr7430 » Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:02 pm
spell it.. that usually beats the censor....
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by Gunfreak » Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:04 pm
A S S
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by PaulMc » Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:05 am
Thanks again for all the kind (and daft) comments gentlemen.
I'm already onto the next unit. Brandenburger (as Barry said) infantry regiment No.8 Anhalt-Zerbst. I wanted a change from the red coats of the English troops, and these chaps are a nice dark blue.
So far I've only painted opponents of the French or Jacobites but I have a real hankering to paint some light grey coats too, so perhaps it'll be Vive Le Roi next!
I don't remember telling Ian my painting technique, how did you guess?
Hoping to have "No.8" ready by next week.
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by azeroth » Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:24 am
As long as you don't demonstrate that painting technique we'll be fine, can u imagine that on youtube? well more entertaining than beasts of war i suppose.
IanB
A moth eaten rag on a worm eaten pole
It does not look likely to stir a man's soul
'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth eaten rag
When the pole was a staff and the rag was a flag.
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