“Disaster & Double Liberation”

Well this week I have been painting spaceships (and swearing an awful lot too I have to admit!). Now a while back (too long ago if I’m honest) I got these two resin versions of the “Liberator|” from the famous (infamous?) British sci/fi show from the seventies “Blakes 7”, From Dave Stone (more on him later in this post). Now I painted the “evil” federation ships in reasonably short order, but then I ran out of “flying stands” and so these two have languished in a box on my desk ever since, well that was till a couple of weeks back when I finally remembered to add some of the plastic stands to an order from Amazon and I could get these painted at last. Now as you can see they are cast in clear green resin, the idea being so you can leave the “ball” at the back unpainted to look like the “green lightbulb” engine on the original BBC model, however there were some bubble holes on my ships and after I’d filled them with greenstuff they looked such a mess I decided to just spray the whole things white and just paint the engines green.

So after they were sprayed with said white primer they were mounted onto my new black stands and re-painted in coffee. It was at this point I dropped for the first time (read on!) one of the ships knocking one of the three “nacelles” off, much swearing ensued! 😒 And I glued it back together and filled the bits where shards had chipped off and disappeared!.

Next I heavily dry-brushed them both in cream, before painting the “ball” at the back in dark green, that I then highlighted along the ridges in the ball with vert green, and then again with lime. I also painted more vert green and lime in the slots on the ends of the “nacelles too, it was about this time that I dropped the same ship again! 😖 This time two nacelles broke off (one being the same as before but in a different place!), much more swearing took place before they were glued back on and more filling was done.

I added some black to the vent around the nose of the ships next before giving them a final dry-brushing with some white, before they went out to garage for a coat of strong tone Quickshade…It was white doing this that I managed to knock the same bloody ship out of my hand again! I sailed to the floor wet and sticky with Quickshade where all three of the nacelles pinged off it all directions! After some heavy breathing and a few laps of the garage with clenched fists, I picked up the pieces and flicked off the bits from the floor, this thing was cursed! 🤬 I couldn’t stand to look at it so dumped it in a small box and left them to dry overnight. Next day I looked at it again and decided to glue it together one last time. The Quickshade had over done its job on both ships, they weren’t so much shaded as looking like they had been through the mother of all space battles! I decided to give them both a good dry-brushing with more white, this would hopefully cover some of the shade and the rough bits on the multi-repaired one. I painted the bases black (to cover up my over painting) and they got a final coat of matt varnish.

So here they are, am I happy with them…well no not really, but they’ll do at a pinch, I filled the bottom of the flying stands with filler and pushed a penny into each while it was wet to add a little weight, then once this was dry I glued them to a double thickness bit of card, this should make them a bit more stable and gives me somewhere to add some printed names at some point for identification, what’s another word for “Liberator”?

And now before I go I can reveal the results of the vote for our “Paint what we’ve all got challenge”. Well as you know I hadn’t yet voted so once I’d added my votes to the results I can now confirm that we will be painting….

Human female, naked, unarmed, Scarlett Johansson!

Just kidding! 😉 The actual highest results were…

Fantasy Monster (4 votes), either Fully or Partially Armoured (2 votes each), Melee Weapon (5 Votes), Savage (4 votes).

Also a Dave Stone sculpt was the overwhelming choice from where to get it from, so hopefully Dave will be sculpting us a “Savage, armoured fantasy monster with a hand weapon”, sometime in the near future (or when he finds time). I been in touch with Dave and he’s still good with this, in fact he’s given us another choice to make (Hooray! 🙄) so would you please like to pick from the list below as to what type of monster you fancy painting…

Dragonkin

Snake man

Troll

Ogre

Thanks to everyone who took/is taking part in this.

So till next time, cheers Roger.

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