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Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:20 pm
by Vintage Wargaming
Purple wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:34 pm
Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2017 7:54 pm
Today - painting the new MDF bases for the S Range Austrian cavalry I got from Brendan
What colour are you going for the underside?
Underside?
Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:52 am
by grizzlymc
In 6mm they are always moulded to the rider. None of yer fancy shading fer me, slap of paint, mains, tails, use a marke pen for the tack, finished. And it is a well known fact that heavy cavalry and foot artillery use dark coloured horses and light cavalry and foot artillery use dark coloured horses.
Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:54 am
by Essex Boy
Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:20 pm
Purple wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:34 pm
Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2017 7:54 pm
Today - painting the new MDF bases for the S Range Austrian cavalry I got from Brendan
What colour are you going for the underside?
Underside?
He's having a go at me because I like to paint the underside of my Gateway bases. A pale green is quite nice.
Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:04 am
by Vintage Wargaming
Essex Boy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:54 am
Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:20 pm
Purple wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:34 pm
What colour are you going for the underside?
Underside?
He's having a go at me because I like to paint the underside of my Gateway bases. A pale green is quite nice.
I was thinking of using green baize...
Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:29 am
by Essex Boy
I write the name of the regiment and the date it was raised on the underside of the base. Green baize would be classy but might be a bit dark perhaps? Good to know that there's a kindred spirit out there.
Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:33 am
by grizzlymc
Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2017 11:04 am
Essex Boy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:54 am
He's having a go at me because I like to paint the underside of my Gateway bases. A pale green is quite nice.
I was thinking of using green baize...
The Gateway cavalry don't move far enough to need beize under their bases.
Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 12:23 pm
by Essex Boy
That's where you're wrong........they've run across battle fields from one end of the county to the other.
Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 1:45 pm
by levied troop
Vintage Wargaming wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:20 pm
Purple wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:34 pm
What colour are you going for the underside?
Underside?
I tend to follow the advice of Dr. Micheal Phillip Jagger, RS, and paint it black.
Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 4:11 pm
by Zenbadger
You have to paint the underside of MDF bases to stop them absorbing moisture anyway. Mine are all kinds of colours depending on the army and whether they need to be seen, labelled or just identify what they are when stuck into foam for transportation.
Re: What's on your workbench?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:44 pm
by Essex Boy
This is all very reassuring.