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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: sundayhero on 20 October 2014, 09:56:47 PM

Title: Painted forklift
Post by: sundayhero on 20 October 2014, 09:56:47 PM

Hi,

I finished my first wargaming vehicle. In the past I painted a few slotcars, but the technic was a lot diferent. The goal was to make shiny varnished vehicles. This time, I wanted to paint the vehicle to fit my scenery and modern (superheroes, ATZ, and other universes in the future) 28mm minis.

The forklift is a cheap diecast I bought 1 year ago (see unpainted pic). It is 1/43 scale I believe, but the size is OK since forklifts exists in diferent sizes in the real life too. This one 's got tires instead of rubber stripes usually seen on small indoor machines, so it's probably inspired by a quite big forklift.


I'm happy with the final result, for a quite fast painting job (I'd say a couple of hours). What I learned will be usefull for my modern 20mm wargaming vehicles (I should paint 4 technicals soon), and also other ones I plan to create and paint.

Title: Re: Painted forklift
Post by: von Lucky on 20 October 2014, 10:18:03 PM

Lovely stuff.

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Post by: Gunbird on 20 October 2014, 10:28:39 PM

Nice one

Title: Re: Painted forklift
Post by: Vanvlak on 21 October 2014, 06:31:13 AM

Oi, you're not supposed to lift people up on a pallet, not safe!  ;)

VERY nice, I like the muted paint. Want!  :D

Title: Re: Painted forklift
Post by: Stu on 21 October 2014, 06:41:58 AM

It looks the part (I spend half my day sitting on one) some instructional stickers and a load plate would finish it.

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Post by: Brummie Thug on 21 October 2014, 07:10:52 AM

Looks very good. Nice work.

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Post by: Suber on 21 October 2014, 07:11:39 AM

Truly lovely one, really nice!

Title: Re: Painted forklift
Post by: sundayhero on 21 October 2014, 08:32:16 PM

thanks for the comments !

I'm currently painting 4 20mm technicals, trying to use the technics I learned with this forklift. I'll post result soon ;)

Title: Re: Painted forklift
Post by: Ash on 22 October 2014, 08:02:04 PM

Wow, what an excellent result.