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Title: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: 88D on 27 April 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.

Title: Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: Doug ex-em4 on 27 April 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).

Doug

Title: Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: gamer Mac on 27 April 2015, 02:40:34 PM

Very tidy painting :-* :-* :-*

Title: Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: jp1885 on 27 April 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!)

Title: Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: 88D on 27 April 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.

Title: Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: 88D on 19 May 2015, 05:48:15 PM

Finished off the set.

Title: Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: Eric the Shed on 19 May 2015, 06:15:02 PM

Brilliant :-*

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Post by: pocoloco on 19 May 2015, 06:30:10 PM

Very nice, great looking unit!  8)

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Post by: Rob_bresnen on 23 May 2015, 09:44:06 AM

Criticism? They look very handsome!

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Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on 23 May 2015, 09:50:56 AM

Excellent painting, a really impressive unit.

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Post by: The Dozing Dragon on 23 May 2015, 10:02:44 AM

Nice work!

Title: Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: PanzerKaput on 28 May 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 

Title: Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: 88D on 07 June 2015, 02:48:29 PM

Quote from: PanzerKaput on 28 May 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 

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

Title: Re: Hurrah for the blackshirts! 1st time painting vbcw figs.
Post by: von Lucky on 07 June 2015, 11:57:27 PM

Lovely painting.