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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: TWD on 02 December 2016, 10:12:41 AM

Title: Once more into the Congo!
Post by: TWD on 02 December 2016, 10:12:41 AM
I played another game of Congo
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r195/webdeak/Darkest%20Africa/Congo_0003_zpswigqif4d.jpg)

(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r195/webdeak/Darkest%20Africa/Congo_0010_zpskm7opscp.jpg)

A few words and more pictures over on the blog:
http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/congo-third-trip-to-jungle.html
Title: Re: Once more into the Congo!
Post by: Sir Rodney Ffing on 02 December 2016, 12:16:26 PM
Wow.  I am fighting down an urge to go home and beat my figures to death with a hammer.  Your brushwork is superb. :)

If I may make one comment, the shiny plasticness of the foliage detracts from the wonderful figures. It may be a small point, but a quick spray of leather brown or khaki will take care of that and you would then have a table to kill die for.
Title: Re: Once more into the Congo!
Post by: Ivan DBA on 02 December 2016, 01:58:37 PM
Very nice.  I respectfully disagree about the plastic foliage.  It looks great to me.  A lot of plants have a sheen to them, so  I think they actually look realistic left as bare plastic.  Also, you run the risk of spray paint flaking off of soft plastic like that, which will look far worse than any excess shinyness.
Title: Re: Once more into the Congo!
Post by: TWD on 02 December 2016, 05:02:59 PM
Wow.  I am fighting down an urge to go home and beat my figures to death with a hammer.  Your brushwork is superb. :)

None of it mine. All panted by my talented chum General Ballroom. He is rather good at it, isn't he?

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If I may make one comment, the shiny plasticness of the foliage detracts from the wonderful figures. It may be a small point, but a quick spray of leather brown or khaki will take care of that and you would then have a table to kill die for.

I think it's more noticeable in the pictures than r/l. I have a bunch of the same stuff myself (these are all Gen. B.'s) and I've considered the wash approach, but I always just end up in an "it'll do" place.
:)