Phreedh's Star Wars Imperial Assault stuff

[phreedh]

Bought Imperial Assault at the end of last year and have started painting the models I don't have available for quick proxying with prepainted WotC minis. Up first is a quintet of heroes, originally slated for the LPL (alas my participation fizzled when I couldn't get the first entry finished in time).





As elaborated on the blog (link below) - I'm going for a coherent and "fast" painting (thus a limited palette with a few short cuts taken) but still try to have a reasonable similarity with the character cards.

More on the old blog, including poorly taken close-ups of individual miniatures. =)
http://ministuff.godzilla.se/?p=1359

[Elbows]

Beautiful work.  Is the terrain MDF or that Deadzone stuff?

[audrey]

It is Mantic's Deadzone/Battlezones terrain.

[OSHIROmodels]

Lovely work on those 

cheers

James

[uti long smile]

Very nice work there.

[eilif]

Nice figs.

What's your method for painting the white'ish terrain?  I really struggle getting worn white (or any white for that matter) to look right, but your's looks great.

[phreedh]

Thanks lads! Indeed, they are Battlezone stuff from Mantic. Versatile kits for some rather generic looking end results, but they were fun building once I got the hang of it. Can't recommend it enough, if you get it for cheap. Some really nice stuff!

I painted the buildings "upside down" with Uniform Grey spray from Army Painter, followed by an "upside up" spray of some sort of buff. Could be Skeleton Bone from Army Painter. I then washed the whole building with some very diluted crafts paint of Raw Umber. It was then sponged with the same paint. Finally, drybrush upon drybrush of buff and white. I'm pretty happy with the result. It was a lot of hassle and you'd probably get the same without the pre-shading faffing about with two primers. Just go Bone white and you're good. Heavy was and sponging, proper drybrush (thinned paints). I still have some detailing left to do, but over all I'm done. It's gaming terrain. =)

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Wow, lovely painting and great photos 

A pity you didn't manage to enter the LPL 

[huesped]

nice work there!!!!!!!!great paintings and scenery!

[phreedh]

Wow, lovely painting and great photos 

A pity you didn't manage to enter the LPL 

Cheers prof! I agree, 'cause I could've used the motivation. That entry which was almost finished, it's still not finished (though I revised the colour scheme a bit). But I plan to finish the half finished and/or particularily interesting entries before I crack on with my orcs for Orc's Drift and more Star Wars models. So you'll still get to see them, and I don't care much for the competition in itself. I do benefit from strict deadlines though...

nice work there!!!!!!!!great paintings and scenery!

Thank you very much!

[eilif]

Thanks lads! Indeed, they are Battlezone stuff from Mantic. Versatile kits for some rather generic looking end results, but they were fun building once I got the hang of it. Can't recommend it enough, if you get it for cheap. Some really nice stuff!

I painted the buildings "upside down" with Uniform Grey spray from Army Painter, followed by an "upside up" spray of some sort of buff. Could be Skeleton Bone from Army Painter. I then washed the whole building with some very diluted crafts paint of Raw Umber. It was then sponged with the same paint. Finally, drybrush upon drybrush of buff and white. I'm pretty happy with the result. It was a lot of hassle and you'd probably get the same without the pre-shading faffing about with two primers. Just go Bone white and you're good. Heavy was and sponging, proper drybrush (thinned paints). I still have some detailing left to do, but over all I'm done. It's gaming terrain. =)

I'm intrigued. What do you mean by "upside down"?

[phreedh]

"Upside down"... well, the buildings were placed with... the up-side. Errr. Down? All joking aside, think of it as the opposite of zenithal spray highlights. There are a few battlezone painting guides who use this method. First you spray the panels in a dark shade. Then you rotate them 180 degrees and spray at an angle with the lighter primer. Here's one of the guides I consulted for inspiration:
http://whiteswolves.blogspot.se/2013/12/deadzone-terrain-speed-painting-guide.html

Instead of painting the individual panels, I assembled the buildings first.

[eilif]

Thanks for the info.  I'm far to impatient for such methods but the salting and taping techniques do get great results.