Re: Sa'Vasku painting was: (RE: [FT] More Thrust Cover)

On 1 Mar 99, at 11:54, Robertson, Brendan wrote:

> I have done them with a deep or metallic purple base coat, topped by
> sponging black over the top (with the most open sponge you can find).
> Gloss everything. Heavily.
Mine are a purple base with varying drybrush highlights (lots of green
or 
yellow + purple) going out to pure yellow/green at the spine tips.
Mottled 
with whichever of the two highlight colours I used least on the
particular 
model. With, agreed, a couple of layers of gloss varnish. They actually
look 
errr... pretty gross. Which I suppose is the effect I would be after - I

wanted them to look organic. If you're going for the 'ancient alien
stealth 
spider' look I think yours would be pretty close.

New catalogue arrived this weekend (Ta jon!) containing the news that FB
2: 
Aliens wouldn't be ready for Salute. I am desolate.

Can someone give me cost/date/location for Salute BTW? I may go anyway,
see 
what GZG's trade booth has to offer... 

					TTFN
						Jon
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