Saturday 4 August 2012

Screaming Eagle


I'm pleased to say I am back to painting, I have a new job in Glasgow where I will be living in a flat for 5 days of the week and going home to Aberdeen at the weekends. As I will be spending most of my week in Glasgow I decided to take the opportunity to do painting. This is the first of 20 Offensive Miniatures 101 Airborne troopers.

I painted this guy up as a colour test to make sure I got the right "look" to the figure. Colours are a mixture of GW and Vallejo. I really like how he turned out, although I botched the face and skin tone slightly due to attempting a new method which didn't quite work, but ultimately turned out okay.

In other news I changed my petrol guzzling Rover 75 for a monstrously powerful Vauxhall Vectra 3.0 Litre V6 CDTI SRI, Its lovely and fast but I get like 450 to 500 miles from the tank. Economy and speed for the win! And even better its in go faster red.

7 comments:

  1. He looks pretty good to me, you even got the screaming eagle patch - outstanding!

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  2. Very nice job. And "go faster red" is good too! It gives the local road police an excuse to blow the cobwebs out of their ride's engines.

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  3. Looks rather dam fine to me, the patch is brilliant

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  4. Cheers chaps, I've not painted anything American before so he's a first! Hope to get the rest done next week.

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  5. The 504thPIR would be pleased with you there and for very good reason too have are brilliant mate. Glasgow has a good wargames club I believe and some chap actually play VBCW too. Good luck with the new job mate.

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