A bit of a mix of things this post! After working on a few of my bigger projects these last few weeks I felt like a small palette cleanser (can’t remember where I first saw that pun, but it’s excellent at expressing what I mean!). This resulted in me putting together and painting a blister pack of german weapon teams and an old set of Warhammer fences.
The weapon teams as you can see are made up of a Panzershrek team and a flame-thrower team. Not much to write about in terms of painting as these are done in exactly the same way as my other Grenadiers, except the fire!
I had a bit of fun with that flame, trying to make sure to keep it as bright as possible. To that end I started with a pure white, that I slowly covered in yellows then oranges at the very tips. The glow effect on the soldier is done with a very light pass of orange through the airbrush, to tint the underlying colours rather than cover them entirely. I think the effect is pretty convincing, and looks pretty good even when not lit up properly (i.e. anywhere not under painting lights!) which I’m happy with.
While I was painting these I also tackled an older set of plastic terrain I’ve had for years, the old fences set for Warhammer (back in the square base era!). I spent way more time n these than I usually do on terrain, but they’re great models and were very fun to paint. The green mossy parts on the walls are done with AK enamel washes (Slimy Grime Light and Slimy Grime Dark). I’ve been wanting to try these for a while and this seemed like a great project for them. Really like the result so will definitely use them on other projects.
Anyway, those were two fun short projects that served as a nice filler while I impatiently wait for my next project to be delivered!
Lair of the Lagomorph 
Great work! Thanks for the airbrush tip on the flames.
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Thanks! It’s always a bit of a leap of faith, going to spray colour over what is effectively a finished model, but the results I think are worth it.
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Oooh, all very nice! 🙂
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Thanks John!
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Excellent work on both mini-projects, mate! I really like the look of the Warhammer terrain and you can’t go wrong with AK Interactive’s products I find. I use them quite a bit for various things including rust.
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Thanks! I’ve mostly been playing with their oils, just the start of the journey for enamel stuff! Definitely find the behaviour of these for washes and the like to be a bit more forgiving than acrylics, if you can put up with the extra cleaning!
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I love those old fences! They look so good, definitely inspiration for a return to the Old World.
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It’s a bit weird to me that fences can be an inspiration to paint but there you go, these are just cool models!
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They all look great! The specialist Grenadiers look really good – and I do like that flame effect. I remember those fences but never got them at the time. If I realised they could look so good, I probably would have picked them up. I love versatile stuff like that.
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Thanks! Yeah those fences very cool models, I didn’t realise how much was on them till I sat down to paint them. It’s funny how that works sometimes.
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