Citadel 28mm RT601 Adventurers - Hero

This guy was painted to represent my character in GURPS space - a charming fellow by the name of Brash Garibaldi. He's from a Hi-G world, and his skin is black to prevent it burning. He has a bit of a thing about wearing garish clothes. That's my excuse anyway. Enjoy.

Citadel 25mm SH2 Cloaked Superheroes conversion - Thunder

This is a straight head conversion. The head is from a Thrudd the Barbarian figure that I used to make a minotaur. I can't remember where the head of this body went. I was experimenting with Vallejo Fluo green on this one.

Ral Partha 25mm 01-028 Gremlin war party

Sorry. I don't know why he ended up in flourescents, but he did.

Firestorm Armada: Tarakian flotilla

The Tarakian ships are finally finished. I'll let the pictures do the talking.

I painted the engines using Fluorescent blue paint, highlighted with white, then turquoise ink

Close up of the Battleship bridge

Front bridge and weapon array detail

Here it comes

I should perhaps touch up the bronze colour here. It does sort of give a lighting effect though.

Another front view. The prongs were drybrushed with pearlescent green.

Battleship approaching.

Top detail.

Ganak class battleship

Engines. I used white POSCA marker, dotted to simulate aenergy

And there it is, your classic side view.

Here's the underside

Here's one of the Sulan cruisers. The white lines were POSCA again. The fluo orange design at the front was white POSCA on brown, overpainted with the semi-translucent fluorescent orange.

More detail of the same ship

And a view from the other side

The main weapon array. After drybrushing pearlescent green, I used a metallic green POSCA to touch things up, then a Staedtler pigment liner to detail.

I deliberately made the cruisers look as though they'd been fighting/travelling for some time.

There are subtle differences on each cruiser - panels, patterns

From the other side, facing away

And another of that ship

Classic pose.

Here's the third example

Some lovely detail on these ships.

Markings clearly visible on the forward fins

Outgoing!

Incoming!

I used the Staedtler pigment marker to add markings. Simple boxes and dots.

I added markings to the front of the orange side stripe and behind the bridge on the battleship

The flotilla approaches

Overhead view

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That was my first foray into Firestorm Armada, but I have some RSN ships to work on, and a small Marauder force. They will probably be coming after I've done some work on my Covenant of Antarctica forces for Dystopian Wars, though.

Firestorm Armada: Tarakian flotilla WIP2

These are taking longer than I expected, but I’m quite pleased at how they’re coming along.

I’m now using fluorescent orange to really brighten some of the detail.

The most important thing that you need to do when working with fluorescent paints is to undercoat the areas that they will be used on with white. Many of them are semi translucent (more on that later) and will just appear murky if painted on anything else.

I’ve also added more interference orange, as the effect of that had faded somewhat with the ink washes that I’d been using.

The fluorescent paints I’ve used on these models are Chromacryl - £2.40 per tube (75ml) from Lawrence’s, my local art shop.

The interference paints are by Liquitex.

POSCA markers in Orange, Metallic Orange, Black and White, and a Montana Brown (POSCA’s browns are feeble, at best) were used to make many of the straight lines you see.

I use Staedtler pigment black liners in 0.05mm size for much of the detailing

After fluo orange

Before fluo orange

A similar effect on a cruiser

To create the two-tone fluorescent effects on the forward fins, I used a white marker to draw lines on the brown base. Then, after the white was dry, I painted over the whole fin with fluorescent orange – the translucent colour allowed the design to show through.

I’m heading for the final furlong with these miniatures now, and I’m hoping to complete them (maybe only the battleship and two cruisers) to enter into the painting competition at Salute 2012, this coming weekend.

The 'Should Know Better'

The 'Bog Standard'

The 'Tramp Steamer'

The 'Impetuous Pig'

The fronts

Here the spars on the underside and
 the front corner are painted white
to prepare for fluorescent orange

The whole flotilla at present

The fluorescent spars and front completed