Painting Panzers

 Not a lot to talk about but one major change to the hobby organizational space is my new light.  After I reorganized my hobby space, I very quickly realized that the light in the new corner was very poor. I had to sort that out immediately. After a few weeks of pondering whether to get big studio lights, cheap ikea lamps, or something in between, I settled on the Daylight U32500 Triple Bright Lamp, as was recommended by a lot of hobby blogs and videos. It was pretty expensive, but as I've worked with it over the past week or so, I'm pretty happy with my purchase. It has perfect light color, and is really easily adjustable to throw its bright light in a concentrated area or all over the table. It wasn't the cheapest option, but it's worked out quite nicely, and more importantly allowed me to get back to actually painting after what felt like an eternity's break organizing, building shelves, and deciding on lighting fixtures. After hearing about the remaster of the o...

 Been a while since I've written anything; I just want to get a few ideas off a piece of scratch paper and onto a more concrete platform. Spectre Operations - Modern Miniatures In the past month or so, I started on Spectre Miniatures' DEVGRU team, following their Multicam recipe loosely, which I think came out really well. I primed my miniatures with Krylon grey like always. I think the Vallejo Medium Grey is actually a better basecoat than the suggested Vallejo Green Grey, as it gives a better sandy/brown color, without having to make the browns more prominant in the pattern. My Multicam Mix Basecoat Vallejo 70.987 Medium Grey Paint Stripes of Citadel Waaagh Flesh, Straaken Green, Dryad Bark, and Vallejo German Camo Medium Brown Wash with Athonian Camoshade Paint stripes/splotches of Citadel Pallid Wytch Flesh Touch up/cut in some more stripes of various colors to preserve the "stripey-ness" In Modern kit, the two other prominent colors that came up were Coyote and R...

Triumphant Return?  I've always wanted to try my hand at American armor. The monotony of all one color presents an interesting challenge in itself, and I think I have a lot more to learn. The model is Rubicon's Easy 8/76 (W) kit. It was the first Rubicon kit I've put together, and I think it went together quite well! Not to mention all the extra parts, options, and the lower price too! This tank, named after my amazing dad was my first ever attempt at freehand. The writing came out alright. The star was an emergency repair after the decal ripped. D'oh! We're WW2 wargamers: Of course we've seen Fury, and yes we all love the dirty old tanks covered in stowage. I decided to paint this up as a veteran tank that has seen the muddy, dirty horror of Spring '45. The rear presented some challenges as to how to make this large, open area more interesting. I tried adding some washes to simulate oil & fuel stains, but it didn't come out too ...