Paint white and black - Ritterkreig

Ritterkrieg conducts some testing on black vs white base coat. Pretty nice when people do this kind of thing. Well done.

The only reason I like white better is that i can see the details better when painting.

At 6mm it's also tough to see and the white really helps the colors pop and most of my painting is already too dark.

But for my 15mm kit, I'll need to look into this more. Actually, what's there to look into, RK's done it for us.

Thank you.

All the pictures are taken as screenshots from my phone from his three posts, go check them out.

Black and White Test Part 1
Black and White Test Part 2
Black and White Test Part 3

I may have got these links in the wrong order. The joys of blogging from my phone. They'll get you to his site and then you can find what you need.

15mm WWII US vehicles - Another Painting Guide - by sixtwentyeight

Wanted to save this for future reference and for your hobby pleasure.

http://sixtwentyeight.blogspot.com/2014/06/painting-re-booted-15mm-wwii-us-vehicles.html?m=1

Another Russian Painting Guide

From ExiledFog blog, another guide to painting Russians. Can never have enough of these.

http://exiledfog.blogspot.com/2014/05/note-to-self-painting-wwii-russian.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/WyuNV+(Geordie's+Big+Battles)&m=1

WW2 Painting Guide: Russian Infantry - Place Holder

Pulled this from another blog. More for my records, but perhaps this may help you in your painting efforts. You're going to see a few of these over the next few days.

http://balagan.info/ww2-painting-guide-russian-infantry

Bob's Diffuse camo without an airbrush Tutorial

Great tutorial on painting Diffuse Camo without an airbrush. This is somewhat similar to how I did it. However, his looks really good. I didn't use the floor wax. And I didn't speckle mine. Oh, and I didn't take the time to do a step by step tutorial.

Thank you Bob's Miniature Wargaming for typing this up.

Hobby Resource - Camopedia

One of the blogs I follow (can't remember which) posted a link to this very cool site. Especially good for the modellers that follow me. Camopedia seems like a very extensive site.

20 6mm Buildings Pt 5 and Finished

Thank you Dave for the buildings. Complete, except for the gloss and varnish sprays.  Now I just need a way to store these. I'm thinking a couple of boxes with pluck foam.

Any ideas?

Here are some pics and a video. (Note: When I say Gun Beryl and British Legion and show a photo with an "Obey" caption, I'm having a little fun with a couple of other Youtubers. We go back and forth with our goofiness. GunBeryl is a fast and great painter, both army and terrain. He's in Canada. British Legion is also a good modeller and strays into a variety of games...currently Dust Warfare. Good guy who is very generous with his shoutouts and trying to grow the YouTube community.  I would enjoy very much meeting these guys in person someday.)

Red Roof Colors

Hay/Straw Roofs

Stone Colors

 Links
Part 4 (I seemed to have skipped Part 3)
Part 2
Part 1

GunBeryl's Youtube Channel
BritishLegion1 channel

BTW, Dave, is my debt paid for the buildings?

Progress - terrain and models

Just a small update on progress. Last weekend was crazy and nothing happened on the con game. This weekend has been more productive on this front.

I updated the task list page reflecting the progress made - feeling ok. The pic is of the forest floors I made, following loosely the ideas shared on WWPD.net

Actually, I just went back to get the link and a photo from his page (see left - his wife demonstrating the great forest). I really followed it extremely close. I was going from memory. The biggest differences on mine: I kept the edges brown for an easy border. In truth, the grass should've been on the edge and thinned out in the middle as real woods do. In addition, I used matte spray from Hobby Lobby to seal it and not hair spray.  Thank you Steve and Lydia for the helpful tutorial.

I also matte coated the armies and forests. However, I couldn't do the hills or railroad embankment becuase the matte spray went straight to the stryrofoam and began eating it away. I knew it would do this, which is why I painted the hills and embankments. However, I must not have put enough because it started eating away at the foam.

Another major thing completed, the German units and their unit designations. Photos and post forthcoming.

Good idea and a Good Plan

Found this reference on the Tiny Terrain blog about painting a bridge, just what I need. As I have 4 bridges to paint. He says to use the following:

Heavy Drybrush GW Khenri Brown,
Heavy Drybrush Codex Grey
Vallejo US Field Drab stone detail
Vallejo Khaki stone detail
Drybrush GW Kommando Khaki

While I don't have the GWs I do have some of the other Vallejos and should be able to give this a shot.

Thank you to Tiny Terrain for the idea.

Now, the good plan part: I've heard of modellers using recipe cards to write down the colors and combos so they don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. But I've struggled a bit to do this. Frankly, I don't know what I would do with the cards, etc. I know it's not a big deal.

But I like the plan of typing it up on your blog, putting the right tags and then you can just search them and find them. And, others in the community benefit from it.

So, again, thank you Tiny Terrain for the new plan.