============ OGREverse list, Feb 22nd (Last: Feb 19th) ============= ===== OGRE/GEV Painting Ideas From: Sethkimmel@aol.com From: Jpattern@aol.com ------------------------------ From: Sethkimmel@aol.com Subject: OGRE/GEV Painting Ideas Dear Winchell; YOU, a beginner... Surely you jest :-) Seth ----- From: Jpattern@aol.com Subject: OGRE/GEV Painting Ideas Good ideas, Winchell. I've used red for missile tips before, and white with a black tip, but I like the fluorescent orange idea better. Think I'll go back and touch up my paint jobs. I had painted the ball joints on my Ogres black, reasoning that it was some sort of BPC/Kevlar/graphite coating to keep the joint free-rotating. But I like the chrome idea, too. I'll try that on my next Ogre. As for the sensor ball, I too had always thought of it as clear. I cut the sensor balls off my Ogres and replaced them with small clear plastic balls made by the Plastruct company. They come in various sizes, and they can be tinted with Tamiya clear paints. My Mk IIIs and Vs have clear green sensors, and my Fencer has clear orange. You can also drill a slight concavity in the top of a miniature and mount one of these domes in it, to give a police/emergency bubble light effect. I have an old, large Grenadier (?) hover vehicle, much smoother and more organic looking than an Ogre, but about the same size, that I painted up in off-whites and red crosses as a MASH vehicle; it has a clear red dome. And I've painted up some Ral Partha Battletech hovers as MP units, with clear blue domes. The effect is subtle, and I like it better than painting a dome to look like it's clear. The latest issue of FineScale Modeler has a brief article with diagrams on WWII US naval dazzle paint schemes. When the Ogre minis are re-released, if I'm not a very old man by then, I want to paint a few in dazzle schemes. Jeff Moore jpattern@aol.com ------------------------------ Henry J. Cobb hcobb@io.com http://www.io.com/~hcobb All OGRE-related items Copyright (c) 1998, by Steve Jackson Games.