October 04 2009 | Thanks Dave

2 GrumpyOldman sets as they arrived at castle André :)

October 04 2009 | Painting bullets with inks

uuuhhh, how to paint those?
oh yeah, the spent bullets will be burnt out and near the hull -I saw there was no outside ejection for the guns amidships. And the full ones behind the ball turret just like it spilled its content at one point
I used inks to paint then -and my Hobby colour metal colours for the tip. Inks are great to keep the original glow of the brass but are not really easy to apply on bare metal.

October 04 2009 | See this?

I have been buying this stuff more than 15 years ago, this is rubber and is supposed to be used in aircraft modelling for wires, or hoses I don't know. Well, I don't regret not having dump them as they proved really cool to use as the oxygen hoses for the gunner

October 04 2009 | Weathering the ball turret

Oil stains and other run offs :)

October 04 2009 | Pigments for the ground

Well, more pigment on the ground, a mix between Mig and Windsor & newton ones

October 04 2009 | End of pigments

Anyway after rubbing the surface with some pigments mixed I got that..

October 04 2009 | Water run offs

First some water run offs, spreading in the rocks.. I first painted the surface with a diluted darker shade of the same tint so and then I used diluted future to add a bit of gloss at the center of the "stream".
That's one of the reasons why I used pigments in some places, those are so flat (opposite to gloss) that a single bit of future run off on them suddenly brings the whole to life.

October 04 2009 | Blood run offs

After the initial coat of dark paint, I adde diluted future, but I screened and screened again with more coats of future so that the outer borders would be scarcely gloss while the place where the turret will stand is really glossy.