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Pafetikbazerka’s bad kitty and other Imperial nasties
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About the Project
Just one of those 'have miniatures board game, must paint' kind of things. The base set plus a couple of expansions adds up to quite a few minis so my aim here is for relatively quick table top quality
Related Game: Star Wars: Imperial Assault
Related Company: Fantasy Flight Games
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Active
Another quick one to the table top
over zenithed undercoat I’ve painetd all my dark areas a thin coat of citadel eshin grey and all the red areas a thin coat of mephiston red and added some basic highlights by lifting the mephiston with a little evil sunz scarlet.
I found the process of relying on washes a bit unsettling. I can take quite few washes before things start looking like it should and though there isnt much brush time there is a lot of waiting for stuff to dry. I only used 3 washes , a black, a purple and a dark brown red and had to do wash wash moring , lunch, and night when I was home to do so.
Finishing touches include new base, some selective dry leadbelcher knocked back with a black wash and some selective gloss varnish in keeping with shiny Starwars feel.
More fodder
Officaly table top ready for next few missions this weekend.
Could go on with a few minor details but sometimes its nice to have a reason to come back and revist.
Too cheap?
Is it right to over piant a few Kinder Suprise starwars figures from 1997 as cheap stand ins for the even cheaper cardboard tokens suplied in the base Imperial Assault box?Playtime
Finaly I got a chance to sit down with my son and one of his mates and start the base campaign weekend before last. The boys enjoyed it so much we got through the first 3 scenarios in one sitting. When I saw the next scenario required Han & Ig-88 I couldnt resist so grabbed some extra figures.
Base coat and zenith: IG-88, Rebel saboteurs, General Weiss, Imperial Guard champ, HanCore box done!
So Australia is known for being hot in summer but the one that officaly ended today has been its hottest on record, and I’m still sitting expecting 35deg + days this weekend. Hence most painting attemps have ground to a halt as even with a wet pallet, paint dries on minis so fast its unworkable.
However the previous 2 weeks had provided some mild evenings so I got cracking on finishing my core box. I still have the ‘Hoth’ and ‘Jabbas’ box to go so this project is by no means finished but it will go on hold as I’ll probably move on to some Conan minis for a bit as soon as the curent heat wave has passed
No Colours anymore I want them to turn.....
Honestly , finding black on black a bit challenging. Seems less forgiving, like any inconsistencies in blending stand out against the deepest blacks. I’m going to try a few more passes tomorrow see if I can get my ‘table top’ standard and hope the matt finish settles him down a bit
Rush
I think I’ve heard it said before that there’s an issue with people rushing the towards the end of their projects as they see the end and want to get it done with. My rush is probably more to do with other projects (damn you Spacehulk!) but I still feel I’m meeting my table top standard and I feel my eyes have improved a bit.
