{"id":336,"date":"2023-05-22T06:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:21","slug":"wip-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"WIP III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the workbench: Spectre Miniatures’ U.S. Covert\/Overt<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Early stages. The creases in the jeans do a nice job of showing off the auto-shading from Army Painter’s Speedpaints (specifically the Tidal Wave light blue).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Completed paint work. I could touch up some ragged edges, especially the red banding on the camera lenses, but that’s approaching the limits of my brush control and might not yield a net gain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This completes my paint work on all six of the covert\/overt pairs. I need to seal this one, base her and the U.K. agent, and then there’ll be some better and more-contextual photography in the Flickr gallery<\/a>. I may <\/em>throw a spot of black wash on her shoes; as it is, they’re a bit too monocolor for the “women’s casual hiking shoes” look I was seeking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve seen some complaints levied against Spectre’s newer sculpts – some consumers feel that the computer-rendered figures are too “samey-samey,” and I certainly can see how the sculptor might feel a temptation to reuse elements. However, in terms of paintability, the consistently clean lines of a CAD-derived figure coming out of a new mold are a joy to work with, especially when I contemplate some of the melty-edged 30-year-old Ral Partha minis that are still in the stack of to-be-painted boxes in the basement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the workbench: Spectre Miniatures’ U.S. Covert\/Overt: This completes my paint work on all six of the covert\/overt pairs. I need to seal this one, base her and the U.K. agent, and then there’ll be some better and more-contextual photography in the Flickr gallery. I may throw a spot of black wash on her shoes; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[42,34,33],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-miniatures","tag-spectre-miniatures","tag-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}