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Title: FoA SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: scrivs on 11 February 2014, 08:09:04 AM
James (H.M. Stanley) gave me a rather spiffing Empress SCW truck a couple of weeks ago and I splashed some paint on it at the weekend.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZBST5JXsny0/UvekzYldhgI/AAAAAAAAGsw/AQcm-q5t4qA/s1600/DSCF4659.JPG)

More photos and details of the colours used etc. on the Scrivsland blog  (http://scrivsland.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/empress-scw-truck.html)
Title: Re: Empress SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: Paul @ Empress Miniatures on 11 February 2014, 08:27:36 AM
Nice truck but not one of ours though  :)

Title: Re: Empress SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: scrivs on 11 February 2014, 08:29:01 AM
Mmm... James said it was and it was in an old box of yours. Maybe he can chip in later.
Title: Re: Empress SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: Plynkes on 11 February 2014, 08:38:12 AM
Looks like it's meant to be a Bedford OY or OX, a British WW2 vehicle. Ever so slightly too late for SCW unfortunately.
Title: Re: Empress SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: scrivs on 11 February 2014, 09:07:18 AM
Looks like it's meant to be a Bedford OY or OX, a British WW2 vehicle. Ever so slightly too late for SCW unfortunately.
Excellent, it can join my Desert Rats instead :)
Title: Re: Empress SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: H.M.Stanley on 11 February 2014, 09:13:11 AM
Interesting. I'd have sworn ....

Force of Arms perhaps?
Title: Re: Empress SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: H.M.Stanley on 11 February 2014, 09:14:15 AM
And a very nice PJ Paul!
Title: Re: Empress SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: Plynkes on 11 February 2014, 09:15:37 AM
Excellent, it can join my Desert Rats instead :)

Oh that's good news. Would hate to see a nice paintjob be all for nothing.

Of course you can also just use it as a proxy in your SCW game and pretend it is something else.  :)
Title: Re: Empress SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: Plynkes on 11 February 2014, 09:19:13 AM
Interesting. I'd have sworn ....

Force of Arms perhaps?

I believe so. Just had a look on their site. It's actually depicting the civilian pattern Bedford 30cwt the wartime one was based on, so is totally kosher for SCW.


Sorry for spreading wicked lies!  ;)
Title: Re: Empress SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: H.M.Stanley on 11 February 2014, 09:23:43 AM
I believe so. Just had a look on their site. It's actually depicting the civilian pattern Bedford 30cwt the wartime one was based on, so is totally kosher for SCW.


Sorry for spreading wicked lies!  ;)

 lol lol

Thanks for clearing that up. I probably picked it up at the same time i bought some FoA Asaltos. The truck had been languishing in my unpainted SCW pile for some time until a certain pair sparked the project into life again recently with CoC/SCW  ;)
Title: Re: FoA SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: scrivs on 11 February 2014, 12:29:41 PM
Thanks chaps, thread title updated accordingly.

I'll definitely also be using it with my Indians now that I know it is a Bedford.
Title: Re: FoA SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: Happy Wanderer on 16 February 2014, 08:56:06 PM
Lovely paint job Scrivs! I particularly like the way you got the glass to work....any chance you can give us the color palate of how you produced this beauty...I have a number of SCW FoA trucks prepped awaiting paint.

Cheers

Happy Wanderer
Title: Re: FoA SCW truck - My first SCW painting foray
Post by: scrivs on 16 February 2014, 09:16:46 PM
I paint a brown line at the bottom of the windscreen and a dark blue line across the top. Paint successively lighter lines of blue until you reach the brown, paint the interface between the blue and the brown with a thin white line. Paint some very thin white diagonals.
Finish off by painting a thin black line all around to tidy up any 'mess'.