Shark Repellent Bat Spray: February 2019

Showcase from 2017 part 1

2016 was a pretty meager year and I told myself to do better in 2017. I think I did a lot better because at the end of December the total for the year was 95!

First up was Lobo. I had recently bought the undead paint set by Scale 75 and wanted to try something a bit different for his skin tone.

Hawkman, lovely detailed feathers on this one. I went for black and white purely because I though the box art brown wings were a bit dull.

I had a bit of a spurt on with some bad guys next. Black Mask Thug and Black Gate Prisoners.

Knight Models always mess up my painting queue by releasing new sculpts. Ijust had to push these two to the front.

Trinity Woder Woman..

And the Batman.

Harvey Bullock

Heatwave

Shazam. This was my first proper go at using red over a zenithal prime. I enetered this one into a Knight Models painting competiton and won :-)

More zenithal priming with these guys. Falcone family

I go to Salute most years and part of my shopping spree included a couple of the resin Batmobile kits by KM.
I wanted to copy some of the colour schemes or skins from the Arkham Knight Campaign Book. First up was the 70's Batmobile skin.

This was primed and then sprayed gun metal from below, steel from side on and then chrome from above. After that I used a couple of very thin coats of Tamiya Clear Blue over that before adding chips and scratches.

I had a spare Heath Ledger Joker from a trade and when the Dollotrons were released I couldn't help myself.

Another Batmobile but this time it's the Robin skin. Same technique with the zenithal metal s and then a couple of thin coats of Tamiya Clear Red.

Step-by-step rope entrance

I wanted to add a little detail to the entrance of the Iceberg Lounge and came up with the idea of using a thick thread that looked like rope and paper clips for the stantions. I just had a play from there on and finally came up with a solution.

The materials used... Thick thread, large paper clips, soft fuse wire and green stuff.

First of all I cut equal lengths of thread and covered the ends with green stuff then left to cure over night. At the same time I looped the fuse wire around a thin piece of brass rod and cut off each loop.

For the stantions I cut equal lengths from some large paper clips. I then glued the loops to the top of the paper clips cutting away the excess wire. I found using super glue and an accelerator made things a lot easier.

Use the same fuse wire to make hooks for the rope. Cut off the ends of the green stuff and make a hole in the end for the hooks and glue in place. The stands were made from small flat circles of green stuff with the stantions pushed in to make a hole. Pull out the stantion and leave the stand to cure before gluing the stantion in position. Otherwise the stantions will fall to the side and ruin the stand.

Repeat the process until you have enough. I would recommend you make more than you need just in case. Some will turn out better than others.

They look much better painted lol

Step-by-step tutorial for The Iceberg Lounge

I wanted to do an Iceberg Lounge and had a rough idea of the building I wanted to use after seeing the Monarch Theatre by Multiverse Gaming but how to convert it to the Iceberg Lounge?

I've been in touch with Andrzej at Multiverse quite a bit over the last couple of years when ordering kits and he's always been a great help. Whilst chatting he reminded me of the custom sign service where they are able to print out signs to your specifications. It turns out that he already had an Iceberg Lounge sign....Result!!

Here how I went about it....

1. Build the kit. Don't glue the ticket office roof section.

2. Spray with grey primer, it took about 3 coats to make sure you get a good even coverage.

3. All the following steps were done using an airbrush. Spray the columns with Vallejo’s Neutral Grey in a striped pattern.

4. Spray a very light blue mixed with white directly under the neutral grey stripes. I used Vallejo’s Sky Blue and White.

5. Spray a thin stripe with an off white colour I used Vallejo’s Off White.

6. I used the same process for the Iceberg Lounge sign.

7. Mask off the columns and cover with paper to prevent any over spray getting to them. Mask off the triangular shapes too.

8. Spray a dark blue along the top of the building front. I used Vallejo’s Prussian Blue.

9. For the middle section I used Vallejo’s Prussian Blue mixed with Sky Blue. Try and get a nice transition between the colours.

10. For the bottom of the section I used Vallejo’s Sky Blue, again trying to get a nice colour transition and then removed the masking tape when it was dry.

11. To ensure the blue was dry I gave it a blast with a hair dryer for a good 5 minutes and then masked off the painted area in preparation for the next stage.

12. I wanted blue-grey for the triangular shapes so that it would be different from the columns painted earlier and also because it would go well with the blue. Starting at the broadest part of the triangular shape I sprayed Citadel’s Russ Grey.

13. In the middle section I used Citadel’s Fenris Grey. As above try to get a nice transition between the colours.

14. For the bottom of the section I used Vallejo’s Pale Blue Grey mixed with some White and removed the masking tape when it had dried.

15. For this stage I masked off everything on the ticket office roof apart from the sign area

16. I used a couple of coats of Vallejo’s Off White to get a nice even coverage.

17. Cut out the lettering provided with the kit and glue into place. I used quick drying PVA for this because it allows you a little time to make sure the letters are level and evenly spaced.

18. I painted the door and ticket booth next using Citadel’s Balthasar Gold.

19. I wanted the sign slightly raised from the ticket office roof so I found some large paper clips to use as supports. Drill matching holes in the roof and carefully into the bottom of the sign then glue the length of paper clip and leave to dry before gluing into the sign’s final position on the ticket office roof.

20. I carefully painted the curved ends of the ticket office roof in black.

21. I used an old Knight Models Penguin marker to make a stencil. Just draw around the marker and cut out the shape. I then masked off the surrounding area in preparation for the next stage.

22. Fill in the stencil with an airbrush. I used Vallejo’s Off White again. Repeat the process for the other end of the ticket office roof by flipping the stencil in reverse.