Lupa15’s Black Seas US Navy
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About the Project
I jumped on the Black Seas game as I am little bit of a history buff. The Napoleonic era especially fascinates me. This is my progress on painting up the US Navy side of my collection.
Related Game: Black Seas
Related Company: Warlord Games
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
Taking a Break to Paint the Sea
Back before the ‘rona hit us I had ordered the sea bases for the miniatures. To take a little break from painting the tiny details I decided to paint these.
Using an airbrush I applied Citadel's Kantor Blue accross the whole base. Then I tidied it up with a little bit of painting in the recesses and at the edges.
I then washed everything but the edges with Citadel's Coelia Greenshade.
Go back over the dried base with an Overbrush (a wet Drybrush) of Kantor Blue. Be a little bit heavier with it but leave the green wash in the recesses.
Using the same Overbrush method apply some Citadel Altdorf Guard Blue.
Drybrush some Citadel Etherium Blue focusing on the raised waves.
Finally apply spots of a green glaze. I use Citadel's Waywatcher Green as a glaze here.Painting White is a Pain!
I decided the easiest thing to do was to paint certain areas and then do a “cleanup”. I have finally gotten to the last little bit of cleanup…the white. However this is proving to be more difficult than I ever imagined with lots of tiny details throughout the ship.
Here is the paint scheme so far:
- Guns/Anchors – Army Painter Necromancer Cloak
- Hull and Masts – Citadel Corvus Black
- Sails – Army Painter Skeleton Bone
- Deck and Lifeboats – Vallejo 310 (Panzer Aces) Old Wood
- Gun Carriages and Gun Ports – Army Painter Pure Red
- Inner Hull Lining – Vallejo 924 Russian uniform WW2
- Hull, Masts and Lifeboats – Vallejo 820 Off-White
- Rope – Citadel Zamesi Desert
Additionally I am playing around with names for the Frigates and the Brigs. Historically the US Navy did not have many ships and most ships didn’t fit the specifications of the in game ships.
Frigates – USS Chesapeake, USS Congress, USS Constellation
Brigs – USS Oneida, USS Niagara, USS Jefferson
If anyone has any good historical references that I can use to expand upon this list of ships it would be much appreciated.
The Project Begins
As this is a project based on a historical navy I did a ton of researching to understand what the color scheme was. I have been using photos of the USS Constitution as reference as well as referencing images from the Warlord Games collection.
When I started I had no idea how small the details were and how difficult it is to get at certain areas of the ship with even the tiniest of brushes.
