“Father Dear Fathers” (Paint What You Got Challenge):

An early posting? Good lord what’s going on here I hear you shout, well I’ve managed to get on pretty well with these chaps this week, so well in fact that I’m hoping to squeeze one more post in under the wire before the end of the month and Dave’s challenge ends. So I thought I’d do something simple and to this end dug out another five “Forge Fathers” for my Dead Zone force as these are pretty “paint by the numbers” now and so don’t take any thinking about colours, added to this I built them all up as bog standard “Steel Warriors”, so no back packs or fancy heavy weapons, the only things I did add were the odd “accoutrement” hanging from their belts. Anyway once assembled and based up in my usual manner with a few layers of sand and “kitty litter” rocks, it was out for a coat of matt black and away we went..

As usual I began these by dry-brushing the guns with chainmail, then all of their armour was painted in German field grey, and highlighted with dark turquoise. The bits of under clothing that can be seen were then undercoated with dark grey, and I highlighted this with mid grey (the miniature paints version). The gloves, belts and the odd other area were then painted in chocolate brown before being highlighted with leather. I then added the eyes on their helmets these were done in light green before I added a dot or pupil with some “Fluorescent” light green. I also added lights on their guns and a couple of the “extra” pieces I’d added to their belts with these colours too. Lastly I added the accoutrements to their armour with a little bronze with copper highlights.

I them gave them a coat of “Quickshade” (Strongtone) before setting to work on the bases. Though I’d used sand instead of filler, I still used my old faithful trio of chocolate brown, khaki and coffee here, but as usual on my “Dead Zone” stuff I didn’t add any scenic green or hairy grass. So that’s another lot done and a couple of sprues in the bin (that always feels like you are making some progress 😁). Hopefully I’ll be back before months end.

Cheers Roger.

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