Rather than point too much of one side in one go, I decided to keep both sides relatively even and paint an no more than 2-3 units for one side without painting some for the opposing force. It meant that pretty early on I could try out a few quick games with just a few units per side and as the project developed no one side became overtly over-powered.
These Sturmpioniere from the Dust Tactics: Core Revised Set were pretty fun to paint. Once again, I attempted to keep the colours pretty light, using some lighter base colours and much more subtle shading in the form of a watered down wash.
By doing these this way I found the limits of watering a wash and experimented with using De-Ionised water, which I'd been using for cleaning my airbrush, which seemed to help. Which got me thinking about some of the other tools that 'expert' painters use, i.e. thinning mediums.
My conclusion, I think they're onto something.
Washes are fun, easy way to make minis pop. Liking these Z Ad.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bob, absolutely. Been using them for years but mostly undiluted and raw. Definitely seeing the benefits of experimenting a little
DeleteNicely done they look great. Any game reports yet?
ReplyDeleteThanks Simon. None yet but I've got a game date planned in so will look to write up a bat-rep from that
DeleteThese are an excellent contrasting force to "the greens"; you're right to start small and have some smaller games to get used to the rules, even limiting the allowed weaponary etc.
ReplyDeleteThe first few practise games should be fun, hope we hear about them.
Thank you sir. I definitely errer a little towards a muhc paler 'aqua' pallette for these. Absolutely. In most game systems there's always an element of 'escalation' so worth putting the time in early on the get a feel for not only the rules, but how each unit works in the game. That is abaolutely the intention.
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