Painting the toys

By justin read, in Star Wars: Imperial Assault

Okay I'm trying to add images and failing can someone walk me through the process please

Nice

yeah,
Nice models, how did you go about painting these, what paints did you use?

Okay I'm trying to add images and failing can someone walk me through the process please

you need to right click and get the images URL, copy that to your clip board... something like this
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MAaieTdi5IM/VJDAfzmJHoI/AAAAAAAALGI/yDWPjqft_lo/w1118-h629-no/20141216_223845.jpg

The click the image icon in the middle of the second row when using the full editor.
it looks like a polaroid photo of a tree. Paste the image url into the pop up window.
20141216_223845.jpg
done.

Panic...

did you prime black or white?

That AT-ST looks so good .

Could you describe your painting process :) ?

Yes...please tell us how you painted the AT-ST. What brand paints and steps please?

I've got a painting blog called sporadic paint flailing I'll put an entry with more pic's tonight and step by step and put a link in the thread. Crimson guard are getting painted tonight so I'll add them to.

Excellent!

That's cool I like the stripe on AT ST it works really well.

yeah,

Nice models, how did you go about painting these, what paints did you use?

Okay I'm trying to add images and failing can someone walk me through the process please

you need to right click and get the images URL, copy that to your clip board... something like this

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MAaieTdi5IM/VJDAfzmJHoI/AAAAAAAALGI/yDWPjqft_lo/w1118-h629-no/20141216_223845.jpg

The click the image icon in the middle of the second row when using the full editor.

it looks like a polaroid photo of a tree. Paste the image url into the pop up window.

20141216_223845.jpg

done.

Panic...

Very nice. Diablo 3 got in the way of cleaning and priming my figures. Maybe this weekend.

Love the AT-ST.

I've been debating getting 2 action figures to redo the lightsabers with the clear color rod.

Nice job on the AT-ST. The Stormtroopers look like Stormtroopers but with AWESOME bases!

Do you purchase most of your paints online or do you find them at actual brick and mortar stores? Which places do you recommend? I read your blog and saw Hobby Lobby and Micheal's the ones in my area seem to have limited stock of paints, especially Vallejo Air.

Which places do you recommend? I read your blog and saw Hobby Lobby and Micheal's the ones in my area seem to have limited stock of paints, especially Vallejo Air.

My painting skills are somewhere between pitiful to an affront to God and man, however I know that Reaper has very high quality paint sets that are respected by fans and professional alike.

Here is a painting guide .

Artists including Wayne Reynolds use their paints on their projects.

I get most of my paints from flgs getting paint mailed in the Britain is a pain as the royal mail wont carry them so it's courier only. Games worjshop paints are goid a d very forgiving, as are privateer press P3 range.Vallejo are very good but are more aimed at accomplished painters so not something I use a lot of.

Very cool! Thanks for posting. Just got done reading your blog post, well done.

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Time to paint the officers and the first painting of flesh so far on these figures and this is your warning this blog will contain disparaging comments about FFGs sculpts and figures, if you can't except this move along this is not the blog you're looking for. Okay every body set right then.



The hand and facial sculpts on these figures is piss poor, the jedi Diala Passil looks as if she's lost the ends of her fingers in an industrial accident, although this may explain why she doesn't have a lightsaber to begin with(when keep finger tips you can, lightsaber you may have hmm). Gideon Argus does not have a large facial scar, this is a mould line, and nobody has any idea what he's trying to do with his blaster but that has been fixed with a scalpel and hot water as for the hand holding the monoculars apparently kissing your sister is something of an issue in the star wars universe becaues those lower two fingers are one. There are others but those are the ones I had funnies for, so the imperial officers lets see what we have at this end of the gene cup, middle finger on the pointing hand does not exist after the first knuckle, middle finger on the gun hand I have no idea what's going on there, ears previous boxing career? and mold line from the shoulder up the neck that makes him look like plastic surgery. And there are the excuses for my piss poor painting, but seriously I intend to play and rum tournaments for the skirmish side of the game and if I have to £45 pounds for 9 rebel troopers those sculpts better be pretty impressive, cards aside that's £5 a figure which makes GW space marines a bargain. I'm not expecting GW level sculpts but I do want to see basic anatomy.


Rant over this bit is repeated in the blog so feel free to ignore and move on to the painting bit. Here's the link.


http://spoardicpaint.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/you-there-do-something.html

And there are the excuses for my piss poor painting, but seriously I intend to play and rum tournaments for the skirmish side of the game and if I have to £45 pounds for 9 rebel troopers those sculpts better be pretty impressive, cards aside that's £5 a figure which makes GW space marines a bargain. I'm not expecting GW level sculpts but I do want to see basic anatomy.

Yep, agreeing totally to this. Some of the minis have a poor standard. After all the pics I've seen on FFG I was eager to hold those detailed and crafty minis in my hands. I thought, if they have a good quality, I gonna paint them. Right after unboxing that thought was gone. I recognized simmilar issues with all minis showing fleshy parts. Still, for a boardgame they are good but in the light of a minitaure game there below standards.

Edited by Battleshark

Only chewbacca pack says: Offers you detailed figure. Others say sculpted figure :D

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I was considering cutting of the bases and replacing them with transparent ones, but I do have my doubt about doing it as there are some risks to it, have anyone tried it?