{"id":9372,"date":"2018-12-27T20:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=9372"},"modified":"2018-12-27T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T20:09:30","slug":"white-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/12\/white-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"White Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the Hammer’s Slammers<\/a> outfits that has benefited from our slew of releases over the last six months or so has been the Lightning Division<\/a>. This unit started out equipped with tracked armour, but around 340TW they began the process of upgrading them with more advanced blower tanks. I’ve already painted up a pair of detachments<\/a> of the latter, but with the release of the new Fauchard APC<\/a> and Falchion light tank<\/a> I wanted to add some of the older tracked elements.<\/p>\n

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I also fancied painting a different colour scheme to the blue\/yellow\/grey of the blowers. I had a simple snow camouflage in mind, white stripes over a grey base. The plan was to utilise Blu-tack masking<\/a>, spraying the models grey first then masking off stripes with adhesive putty before spraying white. But when the day came, I couldn’t find any Blu-tack! Instead I had to improvise, and instead resorted to tearing up strips of sticky labels (just plain address labels taken from the printer). These had just enough tack to stick to the models for long enough to spray the white camouflage coat, and didn’t pull up any paint when I removed them. For an emergency measure, I was pretty pleased with the results in the end.<\/p>\n