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Offline 88D

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Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« on: April 27, 2015, 02:31:49 PM »
Painted a few blackshirts on a whim, seeing as I live 5 minutes away from the leaders former residence. any criticisms welcome.

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2015, 02:35:46 PM »
They look excellent and I'm horribly jealous of your painting. Tell me, how did you get the corporal's stripes so damned perfect? When I try and do stripes/chevrons, they are a real mess, even after lots of retouching, redoing and swearing.

Very nice work (grrr).

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Offline gamer Mac

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2015, 02:40:34 PM »
Very tidy painting :-* :-* :-*

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2015, 02:51:35 PM »
Very nice sir!
(Doug, IIRC the stripes are cast on these minis, though I still managed to bodge the ones on mine!)

Offline 88D

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2015, 07:11:17 PM »
Cast on chevrons, started with grey then white with a black wash and neatening around and a final touch up with canary yellow. Using tiny brushes helps as well, I posted the ones I use (£1.50 for 7!)on my chinese thread in the BoB section.

Offline 88D

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2015, 05:48:15 PM »
Finished off the set.

Offline Eric the Shed

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2015, 06:15:02 PM »
Brilliant :-*

Offline pocoloco

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2015, 06:30:10 PM »
Very nice, great looking unit!  8)

Offline Rob_bresnen

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2015, 09:44:06 AM »
Criticism? They look very handsome!
Theres more 28mm Superhero Madness at my blog, http://fourcoloursupers.blogspot.com/
And for Ultra-modern Wargaming check out Hotel Zugando at http://ultramoderngaming.blogspot.co.uk/

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2015, 09:50:56 AM »
Excellent painting, a really impressive unit.


Offline The Dozing Dragon

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2015, 10:02:44 AM »
Nice work!

Offline PanzerKaput

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2015, 11:48:04 PM »
Very well done there and rather accurate action press uniform too. I like the little touches with the correct ranks on the should boards 

Offline 88D

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2015, 02:48:29 PM »
Very well done there and rather accurate action press uniform too. I like the little touches with the correct ranks on the should boards 

Cheers mate, Took me a while to find anything on blackshirt ranks.

Offline von Lucky

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Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
« Reply #13 on: June 07, 2015, 11:57:27 PM »
Lovely painting.
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