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Continuing with "refloating" the ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, here is the Yamato (IJN15). A big and beautiful ship.

Yamato










Begemot

Beautiful!

Holy smokes! What a beast that thing is! Beautiful model! Very well done!

That is excellent work on the Yamato, Begemot! Your WWII Japanese Navy is looking formidable indeed.

Beautiful ship, nice, bold and clean sleek look.

That is a work of art - fantastic job. My fave WW2 ship …

I've been on a painting hiatus this past year, but the reasons for that have cleared and so I've resumed painting and this is my latest effort. Just completed last week.

I wanted to deal with a monochrome scheme (no complex camouflage patterns at this time) and just address the issue of developing detail clarity without too much artificial exaggeration. You can judge if I succeeded.

A company of T64s.


A platoon.


The single element.



Begemot

Excellent highlights.

Excellent work on the T-64s, Begemot. It is a challenge to do decent monochrome schemes sometimes but you have pulled it off very well.

Great looking tanks, Begemot! Do you have any secret techniques to get those details to pop?

Begemont,
Great looking battleship, just going to attack it with airpower dropping bombs, see if that works.

The tanks look great. MLRS ready to fire.

Gentlemen - Thank you for your comments.

Redleg - No secret techniques. The highlights are built up with a couple of layers of dry brushed colors, each color a bit lighter than the preceding color, and very lightly applied. Each successive layer is applied more lightly then the previous one. I have found using makeup brushes works very well for this. They are very soft and bushy and can put down a thin veil of color if lightly applied.


Begemot

Thanks for the advice Bagemot! I'm going to look into the makeup brushes. Maybe my wife won't notice if one or two of them are missing!

Redleg - Maybe. It might be safer to buy one. Good luck!


Begemot

Here are a couple of TimeCast buildings I painted for use in Northwestern Europe WW2 games. They are TimeCast's Belgian farmhouse and barn, but I painted them using stone colors that photos showed were common in the Normandy and Brittany regions. These buildings made their appearance in the "Sergeants' War" AAR posted above. One of the interesting features of the stonework was the variations in stone colors. It was a bit tedious to do, but I was pleased with the results.

The Farmhouse





The Barn






Begemot