Guillotine’s Adventures in the Age of Piracy
Ships Ahoy!
It wouldn’t be a Blood & Plunder project without ships, right? I’ve got two to work on: a brigantine and the mighty galleon. As the first steps would be more or less the same for both ships, I decided to work on them at the same time.
The clean-up and building was surprisingly little effort. The Firelock Games resin ships come as big hunks of resin, with very little flash and bold lines to tidy up. The most time consuming, and the fiddliest, part is gluing on the metal guns and the gun ports.
I primed the ships with Mig One Shot grey primer, using an airbrush.
After the initial primer, I went in with black and airbrushed shading on all the inside corners, around doors, windows and the gun ports.
To finalise the pre-shading stage I added some highlights with lighter grey airbrushed from roughly 45 degrees angle, catching all raised areas and especially the decks.
As all the pre-shading was done with primer paints, I left the ships to dry overnight, to ensure that the primer doesn’t “bleed in” to the main colours by darkening or dulling it down as it dries.
I wanted to go different colours for the ship hulls. For the brigantine, I chose a darker, more red brown, while the galleon would be a medium brown.
The colours used:
Galleon: AP Monster Brown
Brigantine: AP Oak Brown
Deck: VMA Light Brown
To avoid covering the earlier pre-shading work, I thinned down the paint heavily. With some trial and error, I ended up using Airbrush thinner, flow improver and Mig transparator.
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