Fosters army - Thezan 1st - Recruiting Soon.

[BG. Foster]

Car bodywork primers

[egon]

I agree with coonan. It looks good now but it looks like it's only half-way through the painting phase. It needs something more that really picks out some details so that it looks properly finished.

Impressive work none the less.

[BG. Foster]

I just had a look at it this morning and I see what you both mean. Something is missing, but what?

[Peter Cooman]

Maybe if you highlighted the black parts before you put the other colours on, you would get some depth in the colours.

[BG. Foster]

I finally got a chance to revisit the tank again today and after about an hour just sat looking at it I decided to put a flesh wash on it. I know it's a little unconventional but I did it anyway, here's how it turned out.




Opinions please.

[Peter Cooman]

Now i don't know why, but that really looks cool.

Really neat colour. I would say this is a go!!!

[Major Downer]

Yeah... I second the coolness, It's diffrent and i like the way the colours work off of each other.

It's a go from me too


Major Downer

[BG. Foster]

Thank you, I have gone ahead with it and just need to finish the details work on it.

[BG. Foster]

I know it's been a while since I added anything to this and wont be doing so much over the next 4 weeks till my cast is off. However I have set myself a target, after not painting so much over the last year or so I have decided it's time to get up to date. I intend on painting everything I currently have and finishing my gaming table by Christmas if not sooner.

Here's what I have to paint -

300+ Guardsmen
6 Leman Russ
3 Basilisk
1 Valkyrie

50 Space Marines
2 Rhino
1 Land Raider
3 Drop Pod

Texture gaming table
Paint gaming table
Build Gothic ruins
Grass/flock gaming table

Sit back and enjoy all that's been done.

[theemperor9]

That's a big bargain you got their Foster!!!!
Congrats on your baby boy and to your wife, hope they're well!!!!!

I will be watching closely!!!!

The emperor

[BG. Foster]

You'll have to watch for a while yet, in a cast for the next 4 weeks after I broke my hand playing football.

[optimat]

Mar 17, 2012 4:22:24 GMT -5 BG. Foster said:

... unfortunately it looks like it was put together by my 4 year old son and then painted by my 1 year old ...

... I all ready have nail varnish remover to clean then up ...

I'm not going to comment on quality because that's not my style (lord only knows I've been there, done that, and still not massively improved ) but I dont think there's enough nail polish remover in the world to help with that Russ.

Mar 17, 2012 14:45:48 GMT -5 Machine Gun Kelly said:

But whomever did it at least made an effort to paint the models. I know many people who don´t paint their at all.

No fair! My army is a LWIP (Lifetime work in progress, naturally) They will all be painted, eventually.

Ah. I've only just realised I'm a little late to this party. I'm sure I clicked on the last post button... whoops

[BG. Foster]

Don't worry, at least you now know that I did save the Russ

[optimat]

There's something very hazard/death world about that colour scheme, and I kind of liked the black/white pattern also, it had just the right amount of order and chaos.

[BG. Foster]

I still haven't done all the detail work on it yet but will do soon

[dwi]

OMG that poor tank! Glad to see it isn't being smothered in paint anymore. Any Idea what that guy used? Looks like laxet house paint to me...

I can't bare to think about those poor cadians. Were they at least spared 4 coats?

[BG. Foster]

No idea what it was painted with. Haven't started stripping the Cadians yet but they don't look as bad, might have more issues with glue than paint on those.

[BG. Foster]

As you all should know I have my right hand in a cast which means no painting for me at the moment. However I have a gaming table in my loft that I started building 12 months ago.

So this is the focus of my attention for the next few weeks. I currently have the table built and some of the hills in place. I'm heading up shortly to finish the hills and texture the bits that haven't been done already.

I'll upload some photo's once this is all done.

[BG. Foster]

Ok, so the last of the hills have now been carved, I was originally going to have two cliff faces but decided I didn't like the look of it. I have now put sand on to texture it and am waiting for the PVA to dry.

Here's what I'm sure none of you have been waiting for, Photo time!





They were taken on my phone so aren't great sorry. Once the PVA is dry, a day or so, I will sweep any excess sand off to give me the finished surface. Then it's off to B&Q to get some green paint.

[Jackal-0311]

This is going to be badness!

[teku18]

Looking good. Glad to see the busted hand isn't hindering progress.

[kobracommander]

that table is going to be awesome!

[BG. Foster]

I was going to post this update yesterday only my son split coffee on my keyboard yesterday and I didn't have chance to go replace it. However the table progresses. It is now painted green, see below.






And then I decided where I was going to put my trees (thank you Adkenpachi), again below.






And after that I made the cliff face look more like a cliff face, by now you should know where to look.



From here I started to flock/sand/grass the boards. Left is before Right is after. Below.



I am running low on the mixture and in need of more flock/static grass, see my trading post thread. Otherwise enjoy, I'm sure I'll get back to painting some time soon.

[Shostak(AWOL)]

Looks very impressive sir! May I suggest adding some little bushes/shrubs etc, exspecially to the hills, in order to break up the grass a bit and just add a little more interest?

[BG. Foster]

There will be more things added, there are going to be buildings in one corner and other little bits around the board. Need to finish the grass/flock coat first though and I've run out. Keep checking it should be finished soon though.