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Author Topic: Armour of the Trigan Empire - some progress!  (Read 3377 times)

Offline Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye

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Armour of the Trigan Empire - some progress!
« on: August 10, 2019, 10:13:03 PM »
Finally embarking on my Trigan Empire project!



See blog post here:

https://lohwand.blogspot.com/2019/08/armour-of-trigan-empire.html
« Last Edit: May 19, 2020, 12:39:54 AM by Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye »

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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2019, 11:16:00 PM »
Interesting - know nothing of that series.

Camo-wise I think a little of lozenge and dazzle (dazzle is more forgiving with curves and mistakes). Colours definitely more from lozenge (earthy tones).
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Offline Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye

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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2019, 12:34:03 AM »
I really like the colours in the lozenges. I think they fit the comic, as I don't think it worries too much about realism. The basic model is green, and I think the purple and dark blue, that leaves two other colours to decide on.


Offline Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye

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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2019, 12:41:46 AM »
Found something to help layout the camo!


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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2019, 02:14:17 AM »
Interesting stuff 8). Why not do your Patton in ambush pattern? Historically (apparently) this was designed to go with the MP 44(pea dot) uniform.
I do like the idea of lozenge,however...
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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2019, 06:58:59 AM »
So are you going to hand paint them?

Offline Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye

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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2019, 02:36:35 PM »
So are you going to hand paint them?

Yeah. That is the scary part. No airbrush.

I'm afraid the surface will 1) not take the paint and 2) show the brush strokes.

I've been thinking about doing a test paint on the underside of the model...

Offline Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye

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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2019, 03:13:12 PM »
A Test image, done in Paint. The colours are a bit too psychedelic, but that is paint. And I don't have them in the proper spots. I started with the dazzle stripes, which was a mistake. I should have done lozenges, saved it and then done the stripes over top.

Offline Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye

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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2020, 12:39:25 AM »




A tiny bit of progress! A bit more here:

https://lohwand.blogspot.com/search/label/Trigan%20Empire


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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire - some progress!
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2020, 01:07:15 AM »
Looks good to me.
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Re: Armour of the Trigan Empire - some progress!
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2021, 10:24:10 PM »
Looks good.

I've just painted some ambush camo, the trick (annoyingly) is to go over each dot again in a slight lighter shade (and slightly smaller).

 

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