This bad boy arrived today.
It’s already pre painted but a little drab for me. I think I’m going to repaint a bit, at least the top superstructure. I’ll space dirt it a bit.
Can’t wait to see. I’m so tempted to pick that up.
It’s mondo expensive, I bought it after some . . . ok a lot of. . bourbon on Friday. Was on sale $150 usually it’s $200. For a model. Ack! Likely the only thing I will buy for the game, but . . . I mean it kinda needs a Tie Fighter escort, doesn’t it? :)
It needs a ISD or two for an escort. The scale will be off, but it’ll be glorious. Plus, the ISDs come with a few squadrons of TIE Fighters!
Absolutely and maybe one ISD with victory just to be sure
But what about an Interdictor.
Sweet sweet curves.
Love that stopping power.
She has 6 firing arcs. 6!
I think a few micro machine scale ISDs will do the trick. :)
For display, you should really put a gray mat on your desk, cut a few inches off the front of the Super Star Destroyer, and place it vertically.
I’ve once again been gripped by the desire to finally paint a whole army from the never ending pile of lead and plastic stored in my garage.
I’m going very old school, with stuff first released when I was but a lad. So far it’s netted me these three guys that are almost done.
I’m hoping that posting these on various places in the internet may embarrass me into sticking with a project to its completion for once.
Here’s hoping!
Those look great.
Thanks Gordon!
I’ve been playing around with my camera to try and get better shots and made progress on another two of this squad.
It’s hard to believe I posted this almost 5 years ago. I never got around then to painting, but I kept all the stuff. Last Christmas we got my son (who loves almost anything mini-related) a Reaper/Bones Learn to Paint kit. With everything that’s been going on, I decided to let go of my reservations on painting “good” minis, and started working on my Mice and Mystics stuff as something to do together.
I’ve gotten the roaches base painted/washed, and started working on base painting the rat warriors. I’m realizing though that I never got some of the other colors I’d need for the hero mice, and with not knowing when I’ll be able to get to my FLGS, I started looking online. P3 stuff is marked up on Amazon for some reason. I started looking at Boardlandia (who I’ve got an order holding at) who stocks Vallejo, and Amazon also seems to have Army Painter and Vallejo for more reasonable prices. If it matters, I need to get a red, green, and blue for clothing (cloaks and robes).
Any thoughts on how Vallejo compares to P3 (especially considering I’d be mixing them on the minis)? Would Army Painter be a better route?
I got one of the big Army Painter starter kits (as a gift for XMas) and I like it just fine; it’s far better than the acrylics that you could get at a craft store. But everything I’ve read says that Vallejo is the top of the heap.
As a casual painter (Mice and Mystics, Zombicide, Imperial Assault) I’ve been more than satisfied with Army Painter, particularly considering I can buy a lot more colours for the same money spent on expensive brands.
That said, I refuse to buy their spray primer any more after regularly getting cans that died well before the paint ran out. The Citadel stuff (and Tamiya), in comparison, has been faultless.
Buy AP and use the money saved to invest in a couple of good brushes and some brush cleaner soap. I went with Rosemary and Co (series 33 I think) but any ‘proper’ art brushes that hold a point properly (with cleaning!) are a massive help IMO.
Here’s a pic of my M&M hero mice. Bear in mind that they were the some of the first minis I ever painted, but they were all done with AP paints (and cheapo brushes - it was after this that I decided to upgrade!).
I’m a big fan of the Vallejo Air stuff for painting with brushes. It’s much thinner than other paints so I don’t have to thin it out.
So confinement has had the positive effect of bringing me back to modelling. However, with a kid in the house now, I’m trying to move to a non-toxic workflow (well except for primers, but everything else is acrylics now). It’s been a learning experience since they are much less forgiving than oils and enamel for weathering.
Anyways, I completed a Ma.K Camel I had had in the work for a long time:
I tried a subtle weathering effect here. Turned out ok although I did miss my oils.
Then I screwed up a Gans that I need to strip the paint off (waiting for my paint remover to arrive).
So I moved to an Altair, this time going for a heavier weathering, similar to what I did on the Gladiator but less textured since I can’t use so many subtle filters:
Now I’m doing a couple of Gunpla-style clean builds with no weathering. the thicker acrylics are proving somewhat troublesome, but we’ll see. I need to get a hang of the thinning ratios (and perhaps get some white primer. Acrylic whites are HARD)
The weathering effect is great! 👌