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Dystopian Wars Demo Set
« on: July 13, 2016, 12:42:19 am »
A couple months ago I volunteered to paint the Dystopian Wars demo models for my FLGS. They gave me the models and I promptly forgot about the project.  :-[

Fast forward to today, and they're finally done. One cruiser and three frigates each for the Federated States of America and the Covenant of Antarctica.



This was my first time using white as a main hull color. It wasn't too bad on these ships, as all four are pretty small, but I would NOT want to try this on a large ship. The white is pretty unforgiving, and I had to spend a lot of time going back to fix blemishes from the other colors. But, I'm happy with the final product.





For the FSA, I went with a theme that I've experimented with on my own FSA models. Again, pretty happy with the final result.





Comments and constructive criticism are welcome. Thanks for looking! Now I have to go paint a pile of stuff for the Halo game at Tacticon... ???

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Re: Dystopian Wars Demo Set
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2016, 08:30:23 am »
Wow 8) I'm really impressed. I like those white covenant ships a lot.
These are going to look good and probably attract some attention in the cabinet.

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Re: Dystopian Wars Demo Set
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2016, 01:05:25 pm »
Those are good enough to embarrass me to finally paint my Antarctica. 

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Re: Dystopian Wars Demo Set
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2016, 06:01:48 pm »
Brilliant work!
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Re: Dystopian Wars Demo Set
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2016, 04:17:53 pm »
Lookin' good there Greg! I especially like how clean and neat the white on the CoA came out!

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Re: Dystopian Wars Demo Set
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2016, 02:42:17 pm »
Thanks for the kind words all.

The white really was difficult, especially since I was drybrushing the metallic colors (all those gun "nodes" up and down the sides of the cruiser, for instance), so the ships were quite a mess until I cleaned them up. If you could see them up close, you'd notice you can see some colors under the white overcoat. But at tabletop distance, I don't think it's too pronounced.

Yes, hopefully they will garner some attention for the game at my FLGS. We shall see. The best way for people to get interested in a game is to see other people playing it, and unfortunately no one ever wanders over to check out Dystopian Wars when I play at that store. But, I digress...that's a rant for a different time and discussion thread... ::)
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Re: Dystopian Wars Demo Set
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2016, 03:06:07 pm »
I am gonna thread necro here to say those look sweet

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Re: Dystopian Wars Demo Set
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2016, 08:13:15 pm »
I am gonna thread necro here to say those look sweet

Thanks man!
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