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Miniatures Adventure => Post-Apocalyptic Tales => Topic started by: stone-cold-lead on 05 May 2011, 05:45:25 PM
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Moderns or future wars? ???
Guess they could be classed as future wars if they happen to be battering zombies in a post apoc Britain.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/sturmhalo/hasslefreecoppersmontagesmall.jpg)
More and better images can be seen HERE (http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11515335)
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Those are all kinds of nice.
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Very nice, the highlighting on the black is perfect.
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Excellent! :-*
Beautiful black tones, as already stated.
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Seriously gorgeous paint jobs!
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Very nice indeed, lets have a black breakdown please?
And welcome.
The Commander
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Lovely work.
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great minis, great PJs
8)
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Have to echo the sentiments of the others here - the black is done beautifully. Fantastic painting.
I'll add my voice to the chorus asking for a breakdown of how the black is painted - I always have problems with it!
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Thanks for the comments all. Always nice to have an ego massage.
As for the paint recipe, I used three different colours of highlight on different areas to try and break up the monotony of all that black.
For the uniforms I used VGC Sombre Grey.
For the stab vests, equipment, shoes etc I used VGC Tan.
And I'm not sure it's noticeable but the weapons and shield used VGC Electric Blue.
Hope that helps.
:D
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Very neatly done. Nice work. :)
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That's a great idea - different tones to highlight the different areas of black. Excellent.
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Lovely work... I'd mark two of these down as modern cos they're not in Hot Fuzz. One's based on the HF crews chum Neil so that's really, really old, means the other is futuristic. Chronology is a hobby of mine doncha know? ::)
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Lovely work... I'd mark two of these down as modern cos they're not in Hot Fuzz. One's based on the HF crews chum Neil so that's really, really old, means the other is futuristic. Chronology is a hobby of mine doncha know? ::)
Yeah but Phillis old bean, the sandford force did end up in full riot gear. BTW those are two of the same 'Neil' figure, with the weapons/arms options that come with the figs.
Silly arse!
;)
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Lovely colour work. I've been highlighting black with Prussian Blue but shall definitely be giving tan a go.
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I find it hard to justify £4.50 a figure, but when you see them painted up like that it doesn't seem so bad! The Hasslefree range seems to be right up there at the top of the zombie/futuristic tree. I have been thinking about starting up an urban zombie table (which is what recently brought me to LAF) and going with mass plastics like Wargames Factory, but things like this and Commander Vyper's thread make me think twice. It's also nice to see something decidely British for a change. Very nice looking figures; very nice looking paintjob.
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I find it hard to justify £4.50 a figure, but when you see them painted up like that it doesn't seem so bad! The Hasslefree range seems to be right up there at the top of the zombie/futuristic tree. I have been thinking about starting up an urban zombie table (which is what recently brought me to LAF) and going with mass plastics like Wargames Factory, but things like this and Commander Vyper's thread make me think twice. It's also nice to see something decidely British for a change. Very nice looking figures; very nice looking paintjob.
It's not too bad if you're looking to put together a small group of survivors. Zombies are another matter though... you need sooooooooooooooo many.
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wow, i love your style! :) really congrats!
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It's not too bad if you're looking to put together a small group of survivors. Zombies are another matter though... you need sooooooooooooooo many.
Tell me about it! ;)
I must get round to painting my little sandford force, even got hold of one of Kev's old figure trader sculpts as one of the Andies.
Again lovely minis will try your black options on mine ones.
Cheers
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So what's a good number of figures for an evening's gaming on a 6'x4' table? I had looked at maybe getting some of Copplestone's bikers, some guys in suits, some biohazard guys, some SWAT guys, etc. to get a good mix of figures. I had thought about maybe 10 'survivors', 10 military/police types and 10 biohazard type guys. I've no idea how many zombies might be required, other than 'lots'!
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And I'm not sure it's noticeable but the weapons and shield used VGC Electric Blue.
It was and it wasn't , if you see what I mean ::)
The different materials looked, well, different, but until you mentioned what you used as highlights it wasn't obvious.
That's huge praise, by the way, making different black items look different but naturally and not jarringly so is a very cool trick to have pulled off 8) :-*