Fighting the Gray Tide (Miniature Painting)

trappedslider said:

I could never see myself using my air brush for miniatures unless like you say it's a larger one like cthulhu, that said I don't think i'd go back to using brushes as a primary way to paint scale models.

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Ryujin said:

While not fully in keeping with this thread, I thought that I would post a picture of the scale model that a friend of mine is working on to be displayed at the Canadian War Museum, in Ottawa. He's just getting down to doing the diorama, which will be the same as the real display space.

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MGibster said:

I looked at the first photo at thought, "Sure, 1:1 is a scale. I guess." Very cool. I used to work at a military museum and we had in our collection a buttload of models from someone's collection. On occasion we'd pull the appropriate model out and put that puppy on display. I keep hearing we all get old enough to become interested in historical models and I'm sure I'll get there at some point.

I remember watching a wargamer who started doing some historical talk about how the experience was different. He had come from Warhammer 40k where you paint models bright blue, yellow, maybe black or red, but suddenly he found himself painting some WWII American tanks. Green. Everything was green. What color to paint the shovel attached to the side of the tank? Green. What color is the hitch on the back of the tank? Green. But you can have a lot of fun with weathering. Making the tank dirty, looking like it's been through a war. That's the fun part of historicals.

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Ryujin said:

This friend is never satisfied with what comes out of a kit. He examined the training tank in person and took a bunch of pictures, then manufactured parts to replace the kit ones that weren't accurate. He also made the railing and display card, to match the real articles.

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MGibster said:

I don't really do any scale modeling myself, but I am very impressed with what's available on the market to get a more accurate model. Some of the companies, like Tamiya, produce some great models for what seems like a very reasonable price when compared to Games Workshop. But then what wouldn't seem reasonable by comparison? But the array of aftermarket parts of models is dizzying between decals and other bits. They even make after market kits for scale models of the USS Enterprise (Star Trek version) and X-Wings.

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