Oriskany's 28mm Long Range Desert Group
Not going very well ...
Seriously considering dumping this project. $130.00 in miniatures and priority overseas shipping to be all but ruined the first day I actually try to get started.
The primer coat went on like absolute pigs asshole.
Went to salvage it with an airbrush cover only to find the hose had been completely UPROOTED out of my air compressor, I had no idea when that happened.
Went to sand down the shit primer and try to salvage with hand painting, which didn’t really work.
All to make a boot camp date I don’t even know why I’m trying to meet. I won’t be able to use these LRDG minis at the boot camp, and others are bringing LRDG minis anyway. So what’s the point anymore?
Meanwhile I’ve lost a complete day of boot camp prep.
Now my camera is acting up with these shit photos. In actuality the miniatures so far do look a LITTLE better than this, but not much.
I dunno. I haven’t painted a miniature in about 9 months, I’m very quickly remembering why.
I’m sorry you’re not liking how it is going! However, It’s actually refreshing for someone to admit a project isn’t going well. I mean I’m positive it happens to everyone, but you rarely ever hear about it. (Though, to be honest, to my very untrained eye, I can’t find any flaws. Maybe because the pierces are so much larger, tiny flaws are easy to spot?) Either way, I think it would be neat for you to continue the project as a tutoring blog for how to “rescue” a project 🙂 It gives hope to the painters like Justin and myself… Read more »
Thanks, but some of @dignity ‘s projects have been going great lately. Have you seen his WWX Union figures? Those were pretty great. 😀
Thanks for the kind words Jim 🙂 I’d say if your having issues with the primer just strip em down to base again with some fairy power spray, otherwise you’ll just be fighting them the whole way, and the only reason my WWX went well was that i followed three new rules that I’ve found helpful 🙂 1. don’t stress, I’m not going for a display quality paint job. 2. fail fast, is somethings not working don’t fight with it, see if you can take a step or three back and try again. 3. keep it neat, you don’t need… Read more »
Stay with it,we all have had a project fails , I have every confidence that you can rescue this
Don’t panic Jim . I think my biggest expenditure in gaming is paint stripper
Try giving them a brown wash. Will help raise the detail a bit and for me makes figures easier for painting and flattens the primer as well
I don’t see anything that looks beyond help.
As @torros suggests, brown wash, then bring the base colours back with thin coats.
Is there a bit of ‘deadline looming’ that’s killing the fun? There’ll be plenty of boot camp laughs with or without a few more toy soldiers, we have to grognard the place up, with the number of history geeks attending we have a duty to all those rivets and buttons that need to be discussed (at length, with diagrams and a PowerPoint presentation)?
Seriously though mate, you have nothing to prove, shit happens.
Sorry to hear that the project is not progressing well 🙁 is it worthwhile just taking a break for a few hours and doing something different and maybe seeing if you can work another way to approach things when you return to it? The primer isn’t really visible in the photos but could it maybe be incorporated to look line sunbleaching/weathering of the vehicles paintjob or similar?
Will keep my fingers crossed for a positive outcome regardless. Best of luck!
Did you use army painter primer on these? It looks like the same stuff i used on my DAK and it comes out REALLY thick (and then proceeded to flake off) so i feel your pain!
Sadly, @civilcourage , no … just primer that was from the hardware store. It usually treats me pretty well. But suffice it to say I’ll never use that color / brand again. Krylon light grey has never let me down, I should have used that. Instead I used a colored primer that I hoped would save me a step and one layer of spray (to better preserve details). The exact opposite is what wound up happening, of course. No worries. The men came out fine, and the vehicles … well … tolerably okay. 😀