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| Jbickley00 |  July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
 Member Since: May 13, 2013  RK: 1 MP: 0   | Thursday July 4, 2013 7:08 AM Ok, so my paint threat for july will be two machine guns for my British 1918 army for Warhammer: The Great War. I know it's only six figures, but I have a lot of travel scheduled for this month. So this is a challenge. I'll post some Starting pics in a while. |
| Jbickley00 | RE: July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
Member Since: May 13, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Thursday July 4, 2013 4:50 PM adding pictures, this is the first machine gun, by Great War Minis: this is the second machine gun, by Brigade Games:  Sorry about the photos, but I am stuck with an i phone and no light box. The round wooden bases are from litko. [[Edited by Jbickley00 on Thursday July 4, 2013 5:10 PM]] |
| Jbickley00 | RE: July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
Member Since: May 13, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Thursday July 4, 2013 5:12 PM here are the machine guns built and ready for priming: |
| Jbickley00 | RE: July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
Member Since: May 13, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Thursday July 4, 2013 7:44 PM i mounted my figures for priming, and while I was waiting for the superglue to dry, i decided to do the machinegun emplacements. At 100lbs machine guns wre not very mobile, and tended to support the advance at long range (even using indirect fire!). When moving up in support of an attack, the machinegunners would hastily improve a shellhole or other position, to protect the gun and crew. So it made sense for these guns to be in emplaced positions, rather than just out in the open. So i set about making machinegun emplacements. Since Warhammer:The Great War, is based on 40, the weapon teams were mounted on 60mm bases, just like-guard weapon teams. I built the emplacement up with cork, as i show in the first two photos. The third photo is of my first emplacement, which is cork covered with golden light moulding paste, which i tinted sepia. I forgot to do work in progress photos on that one, sorry. another view from a different angle:  and finally the completed one, covered with moulding paste:  |
| Jbickley00 | RE: July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
Member Since: May 13, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Thursday July 4, 2013 10:26 PM alright more progress, primed the machine gun crews, and the guns and accessories, the cans you see in front of the guns are water cans, the vickers was a watercooled mg-the jacket over the barrel was filled with water. my next step is preshading the minis with the airbrush, and then adding the basecoat over the preshade. |
| Jbickley00 | RE: July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
Member Since: May 13, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Friday July 5, 2013 1:05 AM ok, i am seriously progressing on my paint threat, but thats because I am off to san diego tomorrow, and i won't have access to my airbrush, so I am doing tons of airbrushing now, before the big slowdown. This is the pre-shading layer before i put the basecoat on. the preshading i have done with these is a two-stage process: one deep layer of raw umber and then a layer of burnt sienna, which will be more subtle when the basecoat goes over it (i hope-hehehe). In painting this whole army, i have been aiming to capture mood more than perfection, so the army is a little impressionistic. I want to get the grainy gritty feeling of the world war one photographs, and capture soom of the moody, muddy, dark, despair that went with that conflict. So the colors are very muted, i use a vandyke brown oil wash, and clean it off sparingly. I am struck in reading about the war, by how de-humanizing it was for the soldiers involved. It was the first industrial war really, and the soldiers became cogs in the carnage machine. So i decided i ws not doing eyes, everyone's face is tanned and shaded, even where the eyes might make contact. my girlfreind said i should just paint the whites of the eyes, and leave them zombie like. It was a tempting idea, but i felt i would save that for a chaos army down the road. Still in many WW1 photos, the eyes are shrouded by the helmets, so it becomes exaggerated shading.Here is the pre-shading step:  |
| Jbickley00 | RE: July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
Member Since: May 13, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Friday July 5, 2013 1:51 AM its always darkest before the dawn. this is the airbrushed basecoat layer, and at this point the minis look SCARY BAD. The gloss sheen comes from the paint i use, and its thin, so it looks a little uneven. Now this is actually an issue with getting british drab to work, because its actually a very flat brown, with tinges of orange or green. but it fades in the sun and takes on all manner of colors when in fades, from green to redbrown. the vandyke brown wash is a necessary part of this process for color correction. keep in mind how the minis look now versus the final product. The gloss layer needs to be taken away so that the detail paiting can adhere, so the next step is a layer of matte varnish, which you can see is very necessary. and for effect, one of the crewmen:  |
| COURAGEnHONOUR | RE: July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
 Member Since: May 10, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Friday July 5, 2013 11:27 AM This is a great Threat you have started. Loving what you have done so far.We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us. |
| Jbickley00 | RE: July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
Member Since: May 13, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Friday July 5, 2013 2:00 PM glad someone is reading it, i am doing all the initial brushwork now, i should have done some more wip shots, but i had momentum. i'll post a pre-wash pic in a little bit. |
| Jbickley00 | RE: July paint threat-British Machine guns, World War 1 |
Member Since: May 13, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Friday July 5, 2013 3:25 PM ok so here is the ready for wash picture. the wash fills and normalizes and obscures stuff, so i was less than meticulous about the freehand insignia. also when i add mud and dust they will be further obscured. I was trying to recreate the low visibility rank and sleeve insignia that was used to make it hard for snipers to identify ranks. not sure i like it as opposed to crisp white, but we will see in the weathering. The machine gun corps shoulder flashes were a little more complicated than simple crescents, but making the actual design turned it to a mess, so i left it at crescents. [[Edited by Jbickley00 on Friday July 5, 2013 5:25 PM]] |
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