Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Fifty shades of battleship grey

Work continues with the 1/1200 scale ships, as I don't have a single pot of grey paint to my name I've had to mix all of my colours.
I use Games Workshop acrylics mainly and mix Bleached Bone with Chaos Black to achieve most of my colours. A bit of Skull White and some Enchanted Blue also get added to the mix at times.

 The Bismarck and the Prince of Wales.
 The Prince of Wales is really a Revell Duke of York kit.
 Airfix Bismarck with yellow turret tops.
 There are about six shades of grey on this model!.
 Shell splash markers - Milliput over a screw glued onto a washer.
 The Prince of Wales under fire!.
 Still to do.
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  1. Archduke Piccolo1 August 2012 at 16:38

    Very nioely finished vessels. I'm very impressed with the Prince of Wales in particular! I'm looking forward to more of this, especially rule sets and action. I have some HONG KONG 'Mighty Armada' warships, merchant vessels and port facilities that are looking for action...
    Cheers,
    Ion

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    1. Paul Liddle2 August 2012 at 00:50

      Thanks Ion,
      I would like to see your collection, I'll have to google "Mighty Armada" there really is a dearth of reasonably priced models available to me.

      Thanks again,
      Paul

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    2. Archduke Piccolo2 August 2012 at 03:40

      I've had my 'Mighty Armada' collection (if I can call it that) for well over 30 years now: picked up at a toy/book shop for what was even then a cheap price.

      The warships are mostly Yamatos and Bismarcks and some other vessel I haven't been able to identify; plus aircraft carriers with jet aircraft, and submarines. Obviously toys (they have wheels underneath), but have been planning to use them in ways not originally intended. I had a brief note on them in my blog in June last year. Time I updated that...
      Cheers,
      Ion

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  2. Paul Liddle2 August 2012 at 09:17

    Thanks Ion,
    I had a good look through your blogposts featuring Jono's world, very nice!, those ships are especially charming.

    Regards,
    Paul

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  3. Mosstrooper2 August 2012 at 09:21

    Like the shell splashes very clever !

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  4. Paul Liddle2 August 2012 at 11:18

    Not that clever, I mixed the Milliput badly and they're still claggy over 48hrs later!.
    I also got some choice comments from my wife when I was making these vaguely phallic items.

    Thanks,
    Paul

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  5. Geordie an Exiled FoG25 October 2017 at 15:51

    Every brush stroke worth it!
    Respect!
    And inspirational :)

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  6. Geordie an Exiled FoG25 October 2017 at 15:52

    Every brush stroke made them better
    Well done!

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    1. Paul Liddle12 November 2017 at 12:02

      Thanks very much Geordie, I'm sorry I missed your comments I haven't been on the blog for a few weeks.

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