Repainting my Army AGAIN

jefferysl · Post by **jefferysl** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:39 pm

Well Folks,
Just stepped back into this portion of the hobby again. A bunch of guys in Savannah, GA were playing FOW (not my favorite rule set, but a fun group of guys) and inspired me to blow the dust off my modest collection of micro armor. I have always felt pretty good about my painting abilities, but I hadn't looked at my micro armor since the late 1980s. MAN, did I paint this???? no priming....tracks not painted, no wash....you get the point. To compound the problem, a friend gave me a bunch of derelict stuff that was in pretty poor shape. They all had the turrets glued on, the Germans painted gray, Americans painted OD, gun tubes that looked like pretzels or elephant trunks. Time to to send the units back to the motor pool for major overhauls! I've been replacing the gun tubes with brass rod and super glue and I'm very pleased with the results. I also use super glue for the muzzle brakes. Just put a drop on the end of the gun tube, hit it with accelerator, then I use needle files to shape it.
Anyway, I'm just wondering how many times folks out there repaint their stuff? Oh, and now that I have a NEW MODEL ARMY, anyone in Huntsville, Alabama (just moved here on 27 November) WANNA FIGHT?

dnichols · Post by **dnichols** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:06 pm

I have had your experience and find it rather fun to see how much of the years my painting skills have improved as I learned new techniques.

However, there was this time that a friend and I decided that we would work together and assembly line paint figures for an upcoming convention. It was going to be an all nighter. It was a good plan. Only problem, we also decided to sample in bulk his homebrews.

The next morning we were happy with our sheer volume painted until we examined our work...and well, we then spent the day, stripping and repainting, this time our beverage of choice was coffee and lots of it.

Zippy · Post by **Zippy** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:37 pm

About five years ago i was looking at my old paint jobs and thought lets strip and repaint some so i stripped about a 1000 pieces (1/2 the collection), I am still painting them

mikeeee

Luca · Post by **Luca** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:19 am

Here are two suggestion of a completely new kind of camouflage, the "Party camo":

It is somewhere in London. Was pink untill march 2005, now is in the black and white version

Luca · Post by **Luca** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:20 am

I like the "crew"!

rct75001 · Post by **rct75001** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:24 am

I'll take the one on the barrel

dougeagle · Post by **dougeagle** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:27 am

rct75001 wrote:I'll take the one on the barrel

Now way man, she's mine

I pulled out my micro armour about 5 years ago (that I had for about 8-10 years) and was looking at them and wondered why I had painted my Leopard II tanks panzer grey. My T-72's and T-80's were in green, but I hadn't primered them at all, so the paint was chipping. Thus I cleaned them and then airbrushed them thier proper colors.

RoughRIder · Post by **RoughRIder** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:52 am

I will take the one in the foreground since no one else has claimed her....... she looks like she knows how to party.

redleg · Post by **redleg** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:32 pm

I've been trying to get my wife to participate in wargames with me for years now, but she would never agree unless she could have a pink tank, which I could never allow since there are no pink tanks. I hope she doesn't see this picture.

BooneC · Post by **BooneC** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 1:35 pm

British tanks in North Africa faded to a light pinkish colour after some time in the desert sun.