{"id":11764,"date":"2020-12-10T20:19:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=11764"},"modified":"2020-12-10T20:19:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:19:55","slug":"starship-painting-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/starship-painting-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Starship Painting Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/starship-painting-guide\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Our friend Robin Fitton, author of both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/15mmSF\/Rules\/GRZ-002.html\">Gruntz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/ImperialSkies\/index.html\">Imperial Skies<\/a>, has begun a series of starship painting guides on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottenlead.co.uk\/\">Rottenlead blog<\/a>. He&#8217;s featuring models from a number of manufacturers including ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8649\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/salute-video\/rottenlead\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rottenlead.png\" data-orig-size=\"250,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rottenlead\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rottenlead.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rottenlead.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rottenlead.png 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rottenlead-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Part one, covering cleanup and prep, can be seen below:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTo2p_lEIxA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Robin Fitton, author of both Gruntz and Imperial Skies, has begun a series of starship painting guides on his Rottenlead blog. He&#8217;s featuring models from a number of manufacturers including ourselves. Part one, covering cleanup and prep, can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/starship-painting-guide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The first part of a comprehensive starship painting guide from Robin Fitton","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting-and-modelling","category-spaceships"],"views":1807,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Rottenlead.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-33K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11940,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/01\/starship-painting-guide-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11764,"position":0},"title":"Starship Painting Guide #2","author":"Tony","date":"January 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Robin of Rottenlead has posted the second part of his guide to painting spaceships on Youtube, so if you fancy a watch, here's a selection of stills to whet your appetite and a link to the video. 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