Its been quite a while since I’ve had any personal time and between daughters moving to university, broken legs (not mine I am glad to say) and other personal bits this weekend has been the first time I have been able to clear desk space again.
I did manage to spend some time at Partizan with Derek and collected a few bits to paint with the majority of the money going on some superb 1/4800 naval ships from Tumbling Dice – now though I played with 2mm figures these are really small…
Quality of the castings is fair – a couple of small holes in bases and a fair amount of whisper thin flash in places but the main issue I have is the closeness of some of the sails (esp. the sloop and 3 decks ships) that will almost defeat me painting the cross spars! Details on the other hand are great – sails have indentations and spars, the hulls have planking and ports but I cannot tell if the captain has a beard or not!
Being a sucker for punishment, I decided to start with the three smallest ships in the fleet so using a black undercoat I painted the sails with GW Bleached Bone and a highlight / dry brush of white:
The hulls and masts / spars are then painted with GW Graveyard Earth and the whole ship washed with Devlan Mud. The ratlines where then re-touched in black to correct the errors from the sails.
The small base was painted with Necron Abyss, washed with Dark Angels Green and then brushed with a mix of the Abyss and white to give me a highlight. If anything this is the weakest part of the painting as I do not know how to paint the sea – I live by a river (the Humber) and it is brown so that did not help.
The three ships only took around an hour to paint (including loading the dishwasher) and I am very pleased with the result (though not the photos as these need the big camera out and more time than I can spare at the moment):
With luck I will get them onto the larger bases tonight and sort out the link to the rules I am going to try.
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