The 500: Day 5

Dec 06, 2014 10:14

Yours truly faking painting. 

Note the beverage of the gods.

Call of the West Sorry, no new pics this time. You'll have to do with this teaser of stuff that's coming shortly.

Managed another 4 hours of work last night before the family demanded a pizza and a movie (Aliens, which did not suffer from Blu-Ray as Alien did).

Fired up the airbrush and proceeded to basecoat nearly all the 15mm and microarmor items currently being worked on. I used the Vallejo colored primer (US Olive). They are really nice and a good value point compared to the small ModelAir bottles, but I think all the tones are really too dark for the scales I'm usually working on -- especially considering the items will be washed after the basecoat darkening them further.

So I did something I almost never do -- I mixed paints. Luckily when those annoying dropper bottles inevitably dry out, they can be cleaned leaving functional dropper bottles. I took one and mixed about 20% white with the olive. I think the result was pretty good, but you'll see it yourself in a couple of days.

Men-at-arms Basecoating took about 25-30ml of paint, so if I had been using the small bottles I probably would have run out in the middle... then I managed to paint camo on some of the BAOR tanks, but that work will continue today. On the plus side, the break meant I had time to actually fetch image references for the zippos.

Next I hope to get all the tanks washed and move onto the infantry.

Figures remaining: 487

Total pledges: 10 GBP

P.S. Today's paper actually had a story about the Ebola vaccine. Looks like it's proceeding nicely so this is not just shoveling back the tide. It's not too late to pledge. Those nice batsies need your help!

Because if they can't get the vaccine to work, the next thing they'll try is killing all the bats.

maxxon


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