u/Freeflyclown

First building I’ve ever painted and happy with how this came together in the end. No dry brushing, kinda made it up as I went along after looking at a couple of photos.

3D printed in FDM…

Need your opinion please people! I’ve started painting my British airborne after finishing my Germans.

The Germans took me so long, as my workflow was Prime -> base coat -> wash -> highlight -> 2nd highlight

Trying to speed up my British Airborne and experimenting a little more with contrast paints, and mixing things up.

I’ve painted a couple of different models and wanted to get opinions. These aren’t completely finish, none of the models have had much in the way of highlights applied (trousers on the paler models but that’s about it).

The thing I can’t decide on is how to paint the denison smocks.

One pair of models has been painted with AP Pallid bone speed paint as the smock base, the other pair have AK Quick Gen Desert Sand, which is a lot more saturated.

So my plan was - rather than use any washes, the smock base would be a contrast paint, with the camo pattern painted on top in normal acrylics and just left at that.

Thoughts?

My second vehicle attempt - Getting the weathering down a bit better now, and better airbrush trigger control. These vehicles appear oversaturated in the photos, in reality they’re a bit duller - more like how they appear in the last 2 photos here.

Took me a while and I’m still getting used to using an airbrush, but really like how this came out. Need a lot more practice with weathering but it’s a start 😊

Completed German Grenadiers

Took me a while but I’m happy with how these turned out. Still a few bits to do (like my German CO’s iron cross is still black)…there’s a few Waffen SS in here too

...and now that I've got it, it's great I have a pre-painted army complete and ready to roll, but the models look very poor compared to what I've done with my own painting.

I'd like to up the quality a little but with minimal time (whilst my efforts look much better it's taken me quite a while to paint my German army).

Wondering what suggestions people would make that doesn't involve stripping and re-painting. I have noticed that the metal figures don't look to have been primed, as there's bare metal showing through on quite a few edges and recesses (probably not been varnished either).

I've got a mix of speedpaints, and Vallejo colour and air ranges, and the usual washes like military shade, strong tone, agrax earthshade etc.

Any suggestions?

Having collected all of SK’s books I stumbled across this in my local Tesco.

My collection is 90% Hodder rainbow paperbacks (love them!), and 10% Hodder hardbacks, and literally the only books missing is the Talisman - I read it 20 years ago I think and from memory my copy ended up in a charity shop.

I remember absolutely nothing about the book but I had to pick this up!

Firstly, I absolutely love this cover, very cool
Secondly….surprised to see a UK iRRP of £14.99 for a paperback 😮 (thanks Tesco - £6 on their shelves!)

Thirdly….maybe I’ve been under a rock but I had no idea King and Straub have written the third book and it comes out in October??? 😮

All this from going to buy some onions😂

My first time working with an airbrush, this is the base coat on top of a black primer.

Question before I proceed with adding the camo, is this base opaque enough or do I need to layer it up more? I’ve tried to pick out panels to give more depth but not sure if this is right