06.11.08
Mosque
The building is made from a plaster and concrete hybrid that is heavy. It’s very similar to Excalibur dental plaster. The details allowed with this medium are pretty impressive, but this is a pretty crude model. Take a gander at the windows to see what I mean. The lines are gouged out of the master and not based on pieces of styrene cut out to make the window panes.
I used a light tan and then drybrushed it with Bleached Bone for the highlights. I then sealed the building with Glass and Tile Medium from the craft section at WalMart. This is a good matt coat for some things but I used it because it would close up the plaster and allow me to use a stain technique for further detailing. I used an Olympic stain that is a dark brown and then wiped it off with a paper towel. The detail was *just* enough to provide a good look with this technique. I’m satisfied with the way the piece turned out but probably will not buy another or recommend it to anyone.
German Artillery
This is about a $60 USD set that I picked up off of eBay a while back. You get two FO stands (with radios, so they are obviously FOs), a staff stand with table, and a command stand. I particularly like the commander with the ranging device. You get 4 guns with crew and 5 transports. The FOs do *not* have transport so they’ll have to hoof it or stay in one place in the game! You also get 8 pieces of earthworks to place in front of the guns if you choose.
I went back to the Afrika book for the paint scheme and although for the most part I was pleased, I was a bit puzzled about the uniform colors that Battlefront chose as they called for GW’s Kommando Khaki. This is a greenish tan color. I know I could have used a different color if I desired, but I figured that an artillery battery would probably have better access to resupply and so be in more official uniform colors.
I used Vallejo Iraqi Sand to paint the vehicles and guns. The tarps on the vehicles were drybrushed with Shadow Grey on a black base, then drybrushed with a medium green by Vallejo, and finally drybrushed with Iraqi Sand. The effect is a nice, weathered and dirty look. I used a Craft paint called Mudstone for the bases drybrushed with Bleached Bone for highlights. The box did not come with decals so I am assuming that Battlefront does not think that they used identifying marks. This brings me up to around 2000 points of painted Germans.
05.19.08
Hudson and Allen Buildings
And now I have to admit a couple of things:
1) I own the H&A Alamo so I qualify as something of a fanatic
2) I *just* got these out this weekend and started painting them – thus the subject of this post.
It appears that the buildings are made from a self-expanding foam that allows the model maker to get good detail on castings despite undercuts and so on. The buildings are rigid, one-piece construction with a hollow interior. The walls are .5 to .75 inches thick so they are pretty sturdy and should be able to undergo a lot of handling without adverse consequences. They are medieval buildings but still fit in nicely with OSW style gaming. I primed these with a base coat of Krylon Ultra Flat Black spray paint and then dry brushed them until I was satisfied. These four buildings probably took less than an hour each, max.
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