Throw Back Thursday - Old Chaos Army

Well, here is a unit of my Warriors of Chaos.  I painted these guys maybe over 5+ years ago.  I can't even remember.  I'd say more.  They are still a favorite unit of mine for Fantasy battles. 

P-40 Update - Starting the painting

Ok, so after stressing the masking process, I finally go to doing it.  It was slow and a bit frustrating, but it was needed.  Came out pretty good.  So after that was completed, I started on the upper colors. 

I sprayed a dark earth color first.  I continued to spray more light layers on the model beyond what yo see above. 

Then I sprayed a lighter color.  I feel that I might have sprayed too much of this color too heavily.  I might go back and spray certain parts just a hair darker to blend it better.  After this, it will be time for filters. 

BOLT ACTION WW2 1/28 mm Table Top Game

In honor of the passing of Bill Guarnere (90) of Band of Brothers fame, I am posting my first 4 Bold Action figures of the US Airborne during the Normandy invasion.  I am going to be making a full 500 point US Airborne unit and 1 500 point German SS unit.  Here are the first test models. 

Figures done, but I need to add some flock etc to the bases.  That will be the last thing to do, but will be done at the end so all figures are completed at same time. 

The German side is an SS unit, not sure which one yet.  But as hard as all the camo is, it looks fantastic when done.  I plan on a range of German camo; Dot44, fall and spring patterns, etc. 

Rear gear shot.

P-40 Update - Glueing the model together and priming.

So I started the process of mating the model together.  I thought being it is a Trumpeter Model, it would be almost perfect.  Boy was I wrong.  As nice as this model is, there are some definite fitting problems. 

If you can see where the fuselage and the wings meet, the gap was too big and the parts a little offset in some areas.  I also did not like the MGs in he wings.  The barrels were stubby and incorrect.  I didn't want to spend any more money on this kit, being I am not going to be entering it in any contests.  I went through my stash of brass and metal rods and found a gauge that was close to what I needed, cut and glued them in.  Not bad. 

I also got my little Dremel bit and carved out a bit of the 50 cals barrels to add some definition to the guns. 

Here is another angle.  You can see both sides are bit off, but one side favors the other.  I used Mr. Hobby dissolved putty to close the gaps a bit to many it look like a panel line more than a gap.  I used the same putty on the other seams and sanded them down. 

After priming the model with Mig's Ammo Primer, I used black paint to airbrush the panel lines.  I was not tooo careful, I kinda rushed through this phase.  Plus 1:72 scale is CRAZY small to me (I'm used to 1:35 AFV).  I sprayed both sides of model and then the fun REALLY begins. 

Trumpeter P-40 B/C in 1:72 scale

So I started my 2nd plane model.  Another 1/72 scale WW2 fighter plane.  This time I am making an early P-40B in Chinese service.  The fighter was flown by US pilots in China against the Japanese forces, but after US pilots were pulled out, the planes were flown by Chinese pilots.

So here are the first steps:

Box art of model.  Looks cool, can't wait.

After cutting the parts I will be dealing with first from the sprues.  Not bad on the detail.  I hear there are some improvements over the 1/48 and 1/32 versions that had rivet accuracy problems.

When you build this part, make sure you dry fit it and glue the back and floor together, then remove it and glue on seat and then paint. 

Here I have the cockpit primed, painted and glossed so I can do my pin washes.  You can see other painted parts in the back ground.

Instrument panels.  I will be touching up the rear parts of the .50 cals.  Just enough to make them look more like HMG then part of the panel. 

I painted the exhausts a track color.  I like this color as it resembles metal that isn't new, yet not too old and rusty.  A little weathering etc will make these look great. 

WALKING DEAD! Vampire Counts Games Workshop WARHAMMER.

So years ago I started building my Vampire Count army.  It is a very cool looking army and an interesting one at that.  I have yet to play with it as it is not fully complete, or even complete enough to play a small game with, soon.  Here is my corpse cart.  I used washes on this.  I like how it turned out, BUT it was tough to paint.

F4U Decals, Pin Washes and Done!

So at the decal and pin wash stage.  The Academy decals SUCK.  They are very durable BUT they do NOT take to Solvoset at all!  I didn't have any other decal softening agent left so this process was VERY annoying and took a while. 

So after the pin washes were completed after decals, I hit it one more time with satin coat (which is WAY to shiny) and added some streaking on wings, and fuselage. 

I did NOT like the sheen.  Too glossy even for US NAVY Blue Gloss.  So I decided to give Alclad Aqua Gloss a try.  I know it is a GLOSS but I heard good things. 

BAM!   Perfect sheen.  This product went on out of the bottle, NO cutting with anything else.  It was perfect!  I sprayed it at a 18-20 psi out of my airbrush. 

I did however totally mess up the gun smoke!  I am NOT happy with that.  I guess the paint wasn't thin enough and blasted out.  Oh well.  ANOTHER lesson learned. 
But the sheen is awesome. 

DONE!