============ OGREverse list, Feb 24th (Last: Feb 22nd) ============= ===== OGRE/GEV Painting Ideas From: Winchell Chung ------------------------------ From: Winchell Chung Subject: OGRE/GEV Painting Ideas > From: Sethkimmel@aol.com > > Dear Winchell; > YOU, a beginner... Surely you jest :-) Well, there *is* a bit of a difference between painting a canvas and painting a lead miniature. Techniques like dry-brushing details are of limited utility on a flat canvas. > From: Jpattern@aol.com > 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. Now *theres* a nice idea. I'll have to try that. I figure that, like most tanks, Ogres will tear up the landscape and have lots of dirt and dust. But one would think that the size of an Ogre would be a factor. The dust would probably only be plastered on the lower 1/5 of the tread units (say, six feet off the groundline). I'm sure that there is some sort of mud or dust colored model paint. *sigh*, I miss the old Humbrol(sp?) paints. They went on slick, covered well, and had some nice colors. I especially liked the "gunmetal" color. I haven't found another brand that had quite that shade. > 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. Nice. I recall that in many cases, chamoflage was not so much to make the vehicle invisible, as it was to break up the vehicle's outline to make precise identification difficult. It helps if your opponent cannot tell if it is a Mk III or a Mk IV you have bivouacked on the horizon. -- * A B S I T * I N V I D I A * V E R B O ** I D E M * S O N A N S * +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WINCHELL CHUNG http://www.clark.net/pub/nyrath/home.html | | Nyrath the nearly wise at the Praeternatural Tower nyrath@clark.net | ----- [I like Polly-S Colors. I've been working on a snow-leopard cammo design for the Indian Army tanks. What do you use for a base? I like Polly-S's Floquil, it tends to go on thin enough to maintain detail. My least favorite part of the OGRE history-to-be is the way the Japs jump and roll over the Chinese with simple technical superiority. The traditional method of overcoming the middle kingdom is to wait for them to have internal political conflict and then kick them while they're down. (Japan in this century and plenty of other historical examples.) The next fracture should be between the conservative inland vs the economically advanced coastal areas. (Making all those GI Joe dolls will probally give them strange ideas...) -HJC] Henry J. Cobb hcobb@io.com http://www.io.com/~hcobb All OGRE-related items Copyright (c) 1998, by Steve Jackson Games.