Thursday, July 30, 2026

On The Go

On The Go

Full Thrust - Mirage IX Fighters 

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Mirage IX Fighters - Part 1

This project continues my efforts to complete my Federal Stats Europa (FSE) fleet for the Full Thrust space battles rules set. This time round I’m finishing off my Mirage IX Fighters.

Black undercoat

Above: As usual, I started with black undercoat


White layer

Above: I’ve painted everything white but leaving black spacing.


White wash
Above: Then I gave the fighters a white wash to soften the edges. 



Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 6
The mighty Honour Guard. 
More Marauder / Citadel figures.




Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 5
The Landwasters. Greybeards from Marauder / Citadel.





Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 4

Slayers of the Marauder / Citadel persuasion




Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 3

Some more Old Skool Harlequin slayer dwarfs.

Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 2

Some more Woad Warriors. These guys are vintage Harlequin Miniatures figures designed by Kev Adams in around 1994.






Doughty Dwarfs 
Part 1

The Dwarves are coming! Slightly retouched and finally photographed, the Dwarven army is on its way.



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Full Thrust - Camerone Fighters

Full Thrust - Camerone Heavy Fighters



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I wanted to finish off my federal Stats Europa (FSE) space navy fleet for Full Thrust. It’s another project that has been around for many years. The larger vessels are finished except for a few in a box of models, FSE and others, I must have bought as a job lot. I’ll see how my enthusiasm holds up for those ones.

Anyway, here we’ve got a bunch of FSE Camerone class heavy fighters from Ground Zero Games. Most of the other fighters that I’ve painted have been in brighter colours but I decided to make these a bit on the dark side. 


Mid grey followed by Nuln Oil and some highlighting.


Above: This photo shows my starting steps. A black undercoat followed by a Mid grey base coat (Matisse Mars Grey). Nuln Oil wash x 2 and finally, a mid grey highlight of cockpit, fuselage and top of engine area.

Dark blue trims

Above: I’ve used a dark blue (Matisse Background - Capitol Blue) for the edges of the wings, the tailplane and the whole of the underneath of the fighters. 

Due to public demand for some go-fast red striping, I decided to paint the eight stands as two squadrons of four. 

Wazdakka Red stripes
Above: Half with dark pink (GW Wazdakka Red) markings and…


Orange stripes

Above: Half with orange (Matisse - Orange DDP).


I then highlighted the pink and orange stripes & edged the dark blue tailplanes etc. 

Pink highlighting
Yellow highlighting

Above: The pink and orange stripes were then given a highlight of pink and yellow respectively.

Light blue highlighting
Light blue highlighting

Above: Next I edged the dark blue areas with a light blue. It’s a lot easier to use the side of the brush rather than the tip to do this.

I then decided to give the cockpit screen/nose a brighten.

A dash of light grey 
Above: I did this with a little dash of the lightest grey I could mix



Red on the engines


Above: Next I put two little dots of red to add a bit of a glow to the engines.

Before the Nuln Oil

After the Nuln Oil


Above: The final step on the fighter models themselves was to put a little Nuln Oil on the underneath of the fighters, avoiding the wing edges.

With a quick tidy up of the bases and the pins holding up the fighters with some black and a final clear coating and the Cameron Heavy fighters are complete and ready for service.

Above: The red squadron 
 
Above: The orange squadron

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Sunday, July 19, 2026

The Green Dragon of Melnibone

Green Dragon of Melnibone


This is a photo essay for my model of a Green dragon of Melnibone.





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I’ve had this dragon model for years. It was originally a blue dragon, then I decided to fit it in with an Elric of Melnibone theme for Hordes of the Things (HOTT), so I plonked an elf rider on its back. Unsurprisingly, I was never really happy with the result. So with the advent of De Bellis Fantaisae (DBF), I decided on a complete upgrade.


The model is meant to represent Elric’s cousin, Dyvim Slorm, so obviously he needed to be sitting on something more to his station! So, step one was to create a saddle for the rider out of Green Stuff. The photo shows some basic painting of the saddle and saddle cloth. I’ll return to this later.


The Elric stories mentions green skinned dragons so that had to be the next upgrade. This photo is at the same stage as the last. I’ve repainted the original blue scales black then applied a base coat of GW Caliban Green. I gave this a wash of GW Nuln Oil and then overpainted the scales with Caliban Green, leaving some areas of each scale the darker shade.










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Green Dragon of Melnibone - Painting Part 7

Green Dragon of Melnibone Part 7 - Painting the Under-wings


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I decided to paint the under-wing sections after the top parts for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the texture of the under-wing sections is very ribbed, so I assumed that I would probably need to paint them using a slightly different technique. Secondly, I figured that I might have sorted out a more streamlined process after winging it (sorry) for the upper wings. This indeed proved to be the case. 


Liquitex Sap Green ink

Above: I gave each section a base coat of Mid green (Matisse Alpine Green) followed by a 50% wash of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink.


Yellow Oxide

Above: I marked out the sections of the under-wings that are going to be the golden leather colour with yellow oxide (GW Overland Sunset would be close enough. I the blended some Vallejo Buff to help out with the later steps of blending into the green sections.


Raw sienna & light yellow
Above: Two steps here. I used a thin coat of raw sienna to make the yellow sections more golden. After giving the under-wings the ‘Eye Test,’ I decided that the yellow area needed extending. For this I used Vallejo Light Yellow.

Sap green ink wash
Above: It was now time to blend in the green into the yellow. I used a targeted wash using a 25% solution of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink.

A final sap green ink wash
Above: Another ‘Eye Test,’ followed by a final targeted wash using a 25% solution of Liquitex Sap Green Permanent ink. And I’m done!

So, apart from a coat of varnish, that's it for the dragon. I'll post final pictures in a separate post.

 



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