Howling Griffons Restopration

[PhoenixFire]

Check out the last 3 posts i made on this tread

http://www.battlegroundgames.com/forum/index.php?topic=315.30

if you don't want to wait a month the Super Clean worked great for me on plastic, but i can't guarantee it wont hurt it in a long term soak

[Grand Master Steve]

As stated before im  not really as worried about stripping so much as actualy getting the project which at this point is more then I expected to get done. So I am pleading for help on  this project. So many people want to see the Howling Griffons again but I am strapped for time to get it done within a year as I am no speed painter.

I would gladly pay any willing to help bring the army up to par standards or even buy food an make a social event out of re-painting howling griffons. Even if people just do the base coat and the final coats i can handle the detail work.

[the_trooper]

No airbrush for you?

[Ian Mulligan]

Airbrush + a few hours a week = painted army in less than a year.

I mean, I'm expecting to have my comparably sized Lamenters done in about the same timeframe and I'm at least as busy. You can do it.

[Grand Master Steve]

But its an checkard color scheme. Would I tape off sections I dont want painted?

[andalucien]

Hmm... I see your problem.

This would go a lot easier if you had a reusable piece of thin pre-checkered material that you could just lay on top of the flat surfaces.

Or a LARGE amount of checker-holed tape that you could just cut out pieces of it as needed.

maybe this exists?   Or maybe it can be produced?   If it saves you 100 hours of painting time, that's gotta be worth investigating..

[Grand Master Steve]

I think the only way is to use painters tape in thin strips and tape off the areas

[Chris]

I would say do the yellow with the air brush then do the red over the yellow by hand.  I think the hardest part to having the army look  good will be having a uniform yellow throughout the entire army.

I think you could get the models rimed and painted yellow with weekends worth of work.  Once that is done, I do not think the red will be anywhere as difficult to work with as the yellow; though the detail work and the red will take most of the time.

[Benjamin]

I would say do the yellow with the air brush then do the red over the yellow by hand.  I think the hardest part to having the army look  good will be having a unifrm yellow throughout the enetire army.

This. Yellow is such a difficult color.

[Grand Master Steve]

Im thinking of doing it as if I don't have it and slow crawl it. Ill start with 1500 pts to strip and re-paint and keep building up on that. It may make it seem...less overwhelming and not interfere with my other projects.

[Grand Master Steve]

Ok i decided to make this easier is make them Badab war Griffons which is black armor but the yellow and red livery is on the shoulders with Silver Trim. This will make it much more manageable.