GZG ECC Painting Clinic

I enjoyed the painting clinic this year at GZG. Rick gave us some good ideas
on color, paints washes etc.

Well I went out yesterday and bought a new set of paints, some paper palette
and started painting. Took a 25mm figure to work and while on duty made
various washes, fleshtones, and uniform colors.

Figure came out well above my previous slop it on standard.

Thanks Rick!

> PS Yes, I do paint minis at work while standing SAR duty.

<g> Do you still play scenarios with 2mm figures while you're flying?

> PS Yes, I do paint minis at work while standing SAR duty.

Hours/days/weeks of boredom, minutes of panic; yours is not the only job
so defined. People who would complain just don't get it.

As to the workshop, the real test would be if it would get me to paint, and
not pitch the figure as soon as the first steps were complete. I don't even
have the faith to try to finish anymore.

The_Beast

Have not done that but 2mm are good for underway. They fit in the small
storage spaces and can give a good game. Captain gives you a strange look when
you ask to have the wardroom setup with the green tablecloth though.

(It is usually reserved for Captains Mast).

Magic

> --- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

I do tend to get strange looks from the other pilots though. That is strange
looks while they talk about March Madness and how the Sox are going to kick
this year. Makes me wonder.

As for painting. I am not good. I want to be better. I want to be better right
now and not practice. So I signed up to the workshop to force myself to
practice. Came away with some good ideas and I am taking more time to
practice. No matter how badly painted a figure still works on the table. Some
of my GZG cops would be zombies in any one elses army just from the paint job
<G>

Bob

> --- Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> wrote:

> Doug Evans wrote:

> But when the horn sounded, they literally dropped

Yup. Been there, done that. Remember it well.

Very similar. I am glad that he and others did that job to protect us. I am
also glad that I just wait to go out and rescue folks that are in trouble on
the water.

Bob Makowsky

--- Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrathwiz@comcast.net>
wrote:

> Reminds me of my father. Twenty years in the US Air

> Robert Makowsky wrote:

I just appreciate that fact that both of ya have been there for those of us
that need, or have needed you...

Hey Bob, is it true there's still a 6' hieght requirement for the brown water
navy, so you can walk back in case the boat sinks?

> --- Robert Makowsky <rmakowsky@yahoo.com> wrote:

Remember, even light is shaped by the darkness that surrounds it, and the true
crafters are seldom ever seen. Welcome to the shadows kid.

I was waiting for that one <G>.

> Doug Evans wrote:

I felt much the same way for a long, long time. Then a few years ago
Stuart Murray ran the first painting seminar/clinic event at ECC.
Laserlight and others were also in attendance (though I don't know why, as I
was by far the worst painter of the group!). Stuart gave some great hints and
suggestions for how to improve our painting skills/techniques. I got a
*lot* out of it. Enough that with a couple of his basic techniques for
improving the look of minis, I've even won high places a couple of times at
the ECC painting contest (okay, granted, the competition during those
times was nothing to write home about, either; my not-writing-home-about
entries were just a wee bit better because of Stuart's tutilege; however, that
all said, if REAL painters had entered their stuff in the same
category, I would have been still blown away ;-).

In any event, should you ever make it out, Doug, and there is a painting
seminar going on by either Stuart or Rick, I say sign up for it. They do
help. :-)

Mk

> In any event, should you ever make it out, Doug, and there is a
Rick will probably run his painting seminar next year, but we've got folks
interested in running a terrain construction seminar also for ECC XI. I think
there will be plenty of interest for it too!