Gurn Of The Every Other Week: Painting 1:1 Scale
June 11, 2015 by dracs
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I paint 1:1 scale for a living, what a piece of pie 😉
Let us know when you decide to swap heads of your 1:1 models… i want a hobby lab for that! Here is some info that might be useful : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant
Bring back Inquisitor? Yes please! In 54mm scale … erm no thanks. There is something that just feels right about 28-32mm miniatures. In smaller scales you can have gorgeous terrain, but I can’t get invested in 10 or 15mm infantry. At scales larger than 32mm terrain becomes so impractical.
I paint 1:1 scale models regularly. It’s wonderful, although sometimes not less challenging than painting smaller scale models. The 1:1 variety doesn’t stay still and you can’t conveniently store them overnight.
I agree with John that different scales require different techniques.
And I also agree with Phil that they should bring back Inquisitor. I loved the amount of work you could do on those models.
John, I’ve got a project for you! it’s a 1:1 scale replica of a house! The best part is, it’s got great, realistic interior detail, you can literally get right down and paint the baseboards! So many rooms, almost no need for free-hand work; you’ll love it!
I’ve painted cars for a living, I’ve painted car seats for a living (well, leather repairing) as well, although I would get into trouble if I tried some preshading, and adding in scratches for weathering never went down well at all.
On the subject, I use a magnifier headset thingy, most useful for 28mm when you get my age never mind the smaller scales.
1:1 scale is like any other scale if you are painting the same thing again and again you get board plus a lot harder to move/position.
I’m a big fan of 6mm. It took me a few hours to paint an entire Russian tank army (to table top standard). Infantry can be a little trickier but it’s mainly based coat, drybrush, a few small dots of pink for faces and hands, a few blobs of silver for guns and then a wash… then the important bit at 6mm, basing.
Smaller isn’t always harder.
Am I the only one hoping for a “tank god’s edition” of this post! You know, with all the TANK GIBBERISH added back in.
There’s not many places I can go on the web and get a proper tank fix!
I have a great idea, John should start a new segment called “Tank Talk”. I’d sign up for that!
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Seconded. 😀
Thirded
is fourthed even a thing…..FOURTHED!!
Sold.
And there was me assuming 1:1 scale was bodypainting a supermodel..
And there was me hoping when the subject came up.
It did, but nobody noticed. 😉
My Infinity Odalisque, scale 1:1
Enjoy! 🙂
http://www.sergiovanpul.com/content/infinity-odalisque
“Hey, look. Here’s a painting tutorial of John painting one of those Kingdom death pin-ups. Oh, wait, that’s not a miniature! Whoa, this show just became a WHOLE lot more interesting.”
Of course the mean mention of scale and painting has got me and my 6mm soap box out …lol
The problem with large scale is time….its so easy to paint 6mm why are people so scared of it…lol
Couldn’t agree more (see above).
Agreed, wish there was a 6mm wargame out there that appealed to me – have considered making my own for years now cos I miss the scale from Epic.
I’ve been painting gaming minis for 22yrs, and airfix kits for a further 9yrs, and painted everything from 54mm (Inquisitor) down to 6mm (Epic), what have I learnt in this time….. I hate painting 15mm troops! I’ve painted the FoW Open Fire set and more recently bought a small mechanized german army….. all the tanks and transports are done but I’m stalling on painting the troops….
it looks so life like lol
Transferring too painting a smaller scale can be tricky as there is a serious sense of having to sacrifice some of the level of detail that you’re used to at least early on and learn some new skills to suit painting the scale but its well worth it. Something that’s worth remembering is that if you have to strain that much to see it, so does everyone else and with smaller scales its often more about the big picture rather than the individual figure so sometimes its worth zooming out.