Laughingboy’s Cruel Seas
What I did...
Ok so this was only a couple of days to complete but I am happy with the result
Pretty much Army Painter all the way on these
Step One – Primed all the ships with Uniform Grey
Step Two – Using Stone Golem applying 2-3 coats on the hulls of all the ships and then details on the deck including the bridge etc.
Step Three – Using Wolf Grey paint all of the deck and the tops of torpedo tubes etc, essentially anything facing upwards within reason.
Step Four – Using Dungeon Grey to paint anything metal like gun placements, tubing, doors, masts, tin helmets etc
Step Five – Using Hemp Rope to paint anything like ropes or canvas details
Step Six – Using Deep Blue to paint the uniforms on any men, then use Skeleton Bone to paint life jackets and Kobold Skin to paint hands and faces
Step Seven – Use Desert Yellow to paint lifeboats, rafts etc
Step Eight – Wash everything (avoid wood) in a 1:1 mix of Dark Tone and Mixing Medium
Step Nine – Wash wood with 1:1 mix of Strong Tone and Mixing Medium
Step Ten – At your discretion highlight where needed using the same colours as originally painted
Step Eleven – Using a sponge (very small) and Uniform Grey sponge lightly some scratches and markings along the hull and bridge.
This should give you within a day or 2 a fully painted fleet that easily passes the 3-foot tabletop test.
Did you figure out where those little metal bracket things go on Fairmile D’s (dogboats), got a sprue of them and no idea where they go, plus no instructions,I’m down to look at my Dog boat diagram book to figure it out.
Awesome little project, @laughingboy – so are these British MTBs and the like? I’m not familiar with the Cruel Seas kit. I’m checking out the Warlord site and I see armed trawlers, cutters, mine warfare ships, monitors, up to a smallish-destroyer? (not sure about the scale on that one – the Eskimo class would be 15″ at 1:300).
You’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in a short time!