The trouble with painting

I have recently been trying to paint the odd miniature and it has been a bit of a challenge. My hands are actually quite a bit worse than they were even a year ago. I can still paint but I really don't have the fine control I used to. So painting highlights and details are...

Doing it old school

So today I am going to start putting some brush-on varnish on 31 ships for A Call to Arms Star Fleet. These figures have been done for quite some time. Let's say five months? I've decided to dip my toes back into 'the hobby' without having to do anything aggressive like painting. So these models...

More Seltorian vessels painted

Five more Seltorians are done and ready to get spray varnish. This time it is two Light Cruisers, a Heavy Cruiser, a Battle Cruiser and a New Heavy Cruiser. These are also painted quickly as the models don’t really have the level of detail to spend additional time painting them. I have one less Battle...

Seltorian fleet expands

And with that, more Seltorians are ready for gaming. This lot includes a Light Dreadnought, two Destroyers and two Frigates. They are easy to paint up and there aren’t a lot of details to paint so they finish quickly. I also don’t want to spend a lot of time on them as they are really...

Painting White Natural Versatile Plastic

So after a few days I finally managed to get the Shapeways models painted. They don’t look great but they are acceptable at a distance. None of the models I have painted are really that well but they look better than these do.  My other Lyrans are painted with a Skelton Bone base and then...

More vessels painted

Three more vessels are done and ready to get spray varnish. I have to remember to do that at some point. Two more Kzinti vessels (a Light Cruiser and a Destroyer) and a Seltorian CA. The Seltorian models are really rough. It is not a casting issue but a sculpting problem. They are just not...

One more time with primer

Before the heat got too bad I took out some miniatures and put some primer on them including the new models I picked up form Shapeways. The primer has brought out the details in the figures but also dramatically improved the eye’s ability to see the grain of the material as well as the print...

More Kzinti done

And the final set , of my original Kzinti purchase, are now done and ready to get some spray varnish tomorrow. I picked up two more Kzinti but I think I will try to get some Seltorians and then Hydrans & Lyrans done before I get back to those two models.  I added some stripes...

Shuttles painted and based

Also finished are two sets of four shuttles for A Call to Arms: Star Fleet. I suspect that they would also work for Federation Commander or Star Fleet Battles. All of the fleets in ACtA:SF use the same shuttles so I painted the bases with blue and red arrows to help differentiate them on the...

More Lyrans painted

So I also finished up three more Lyran vessels - a War Destroyer, War Cruiser and Battleship. I doubt that the Battleship will be getting in a battle any time soon as it is a conjectural unit in the game like almost every other battleship in the SFB universe. I think this takes my Lyran...