Wolfgang Jannesen Posted May 3, 2018 Report Share Posted May 3, 2018 @Skyhawk That directorate scheme is growing on me over the official examples of very flashy sci-fi paint schemes. Those grayish blues get addicting to use! Almost has a corporate espionage 007 car thing going for it right now Skyhawk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyhawk Posted May 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2018 Thanks @northerndragons! I'll be sure to give it a try. 13 hours ago, Wolfgang Jannesen said: That directorate scheme is growing on me over the official examples of very flashy sci-fi paint schemes. Thanks! I really couldn't see the Directorate having as wild a paint scheme as my Terrans. I guess you could say I am going for a Corporate Villainy look. northerndragons 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang Jannesen Posted May 5, 2018 Report Share Posted May 5, 2018 Finally settled on the scheme and logic for the rest of the Hawker fleet. Having fun working on colour gradients and little details like the navigation lights but man I hate putting on the base layers Bessemer, northerndragons, Skyhawk and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang Jannesen Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 Hey is this a convincing forcefield? I'm on the fence about them, wondering if you folks could suggest a more convincing approach. Skyhawk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyhawk Posted May 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 They do look a bit light giant light panels, but I'm not sure how you would do a forcefield. But the rest of the ship looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang Jannesen Posted May 18, 2018 Report Share Posted May 18, 2018 @Skyhawk Thanks mate! Its the best I could come up with short of jeweling. Here is the completed fleet TableTopTerror, Bessemer, Skyhawk and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hive Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 I'm gonna do a pair of Battlecruisers and like eight Frigates next so I can have the least subtle Directorate fleet in existence. northerndragons, Skyhawk, Wolfgang Jannesen and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hive Posted May 20, 2018 Report Share Posted May 20, 2018 On 5/18/2018 at 5:57 PM, Wolfgang Jannesen said: @Skyhawk Thanks mate! Its the best I could come up with short of jeweling. Here is the completed fleet God dark colors on Hawker is such a good look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bessemer Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 19 hours ago, Hive said: I'm gonna do a pair of Battlecruisers and like eight Frigates next so I can have the least subtle Directorate fleet in existence. Get that brand out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hive Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Bessemer said: Get that brand out there! I should come up with a company name. The Mantis Corporation- MantiCorp for short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northerndragons Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 55 minutes ago, Hive said: I should come up with a company name. The Mantis Corporation- MantiCorp for short. Mantis 'Shrimp' Corporation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TableTopTerror Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 Those directorate ships are nice what airbrush do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang Jannesen Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 51 minutes ago, TableTopTerror said: Those directorate ships are nice what airbrush do you use? @Hive I'm curious about the same thing. Beautiful choice of colours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hive Posted May 21, 2018 Report Share Posted May 21, 2018 2 hours ago, TableTopTerror said: Those directorate ships are nice what airbrush do you use? 1 hour ago, Wolfgang Jannesen said: @Hive I'm curious about the same thing. Beautiful choice of colours It's a Badger 105 Patriot with the needle and nozzle swapped for the next size down. I run it off of a little compressor... I think by Pasche? It's not the most precise thing, but at least until I get way better I've stopped bothering with anything finer, the amount of cleaning I seem to have to do for my SOTAR isn't worth the extra precision, tbh. My process is super easy- I prime Vallejo white with the airbrush, then basecoat with a steel color from Vallejo. Then I wash the plates with a watered down Citadel Nuln Oil by brush and go back to the airbrush to tint it all with Badger Minitaire Ghost Tint Plasma Fluid- Once upon a time I bought the entire Minitaire collection, and the Ghost Tints are the only part I still use. All the other colors in the collection are super inconsistent in texture, so I use Vallejo Model Air and Game Color for everything else. Anyways, rant over. I seal the color at this point with a matte varnish, and tape off the nose for two layers of red, one darker one lighter, don't remember them offhand. I drybrush all the metallic with the original steel color. Then I paint in all the recesses with Dark Seagreen which is really more of a grey with a very slight greenish tint. Drybrush with Vallejo Light Gray, wash with Nuln Oil. The glows are done with Vallejo Magenta and then, of all things, a quick hit of 50/50 Golden Flourescent Pink mixed with Vallejo White Grey. I could belt these guys out in an afternoon, if I could ignore the drying time on the primer/washes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TableTopTerror Posted May 22, 2018 Report Share Posted May 22, 2018 I have an iwata hp-cs thats why i asked. Whats the needle size .3 or .35? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hive Posted May 22, 2018 Report Share Posted May 22, 2018 10 hours ago, TableTopTerror said: I have an iwata hp-cs thats why i asked. Whats the needle size .3 or .35? I'll have to double check that for you, haha. Been a while since I swapped the needle over. Looks like its a .35- Badger needle sizes don't seem to be too well documented, but I know the standard is a .5 and I went down in size with a Badger-made needle, right now the only smaller needle I can see made by them for the 105 is .35, so that's likely it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyhawk Posted May 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2018 After a brief Siesta I finally got around to doing more painting. Started on my Shield cruisers. And here are some of my other cruisers. And finally some aquan frigates. Thanks For looking! Edit: Gotta love auto correct. Wolfgang Jannesen and Bessemer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang Jannesen Posted June 2, 2018 Report Share Posted June 2, 2018 @Skyhawk You need to post more aquans, they look amazing Photos leaked from some shipyard solar-west of sorylian territory. Something big is under construction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hive Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 Okay time for more pictures! Obviously I got distracted and forgot the frigates. My brand truly is the loudest. As you'll see, I got the underplating of the Battlecruisers too! Also pictures is my Cheyga painting assistant, Captain Fwiffo, who helps me untie my shoes every morning when I get home from work at the bakery, starting a morning of painting off right. Bessemer, Wolfgang Jannesen and Skyhawk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang Jannesen Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 @Hive Stunning work, only gets better as you add more ships. Hell of an assisstant too Skyhawk and Hive 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hive Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 On 6/9/2018 at 11:58 AM, Wolfgang Jannesen said: @Hive Stunning work, only gets better as you add more ships. Hell of an assisstant too I'm pleased that you like them/him. My next set should take a while, given it is 20 smalls and 7 mediums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polaris Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 I have recently finished my foundry dreadnought :D without further ado and in no particular order (cause I haven't figured thought out yet) Skyhawk and Wolfgang Jannesen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TableTopTerror Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Nice can't wait to get mine done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang Jannesen Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 Beautiful work on the glows! Whole fleet looks incredible! I've finished a Ryushi Battlecarrier but with the terrible sin of fingerprints on the clear plastic bits. I've tried all sorts of surface cleaners on qtips but no luck. Im worried they're glue. It also came with no radar array. I'll post pictures with the accompanying cruisers and tokens soon but man, bummed about the final result when all the resin turned out so good. Polaris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polaris Posted June 13, 2018 Report Share Posted June 13, 2018 If they are glue, you can try chipping them off, and depending on the glue, there may be a specific way to break it down (I usually use epoxy, and alcohol can strip it) But if all else fails, take whatever glue you used fill in the gaps, even out the layer, and buff it back down a little, and a claer coat can help mitigate the details and ridges too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
