I have almost finished painting the modern warships for the Chilean Navy, having changed my painting method from a block in, wash and detail approach to a block in, detail, pin wash and highlight system, which I think has worked much better. You can't really tell from the photos due to the shiny reflection of the light, but they are a lot neater than my Indonesian Confrontation ships.
I have now gloss varnished the ships and added the excellent decals from Flight Deck Decals, using French ones as they are similar enough to the Chilean markings to be useable. I now have to seal them all with an overall coat of Army Painter anti-shine matt varnish, before I can start on the basing. In between this, I'm going to clean up and prepare the Peruvian Navy warships, so that I can start painting them sooner rather than later.
I'll be really interested to see how these turn out Jim - I've always been 'reasonably' happy with the grey/dark wash/drybrush method for my 1/3000 ships but these are looking so much better from what I can see. The lad wants to resurrect our US/Iran campaign 1987/8 so some repaints may be in order.
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Nick
I've got the base them next but I think they'll look okay when I'm finished.
ReplyDeleteThe ships are looking good. The decals really add a lot. I'm looking forward to more on this project.
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