Painting a pair of Warlords Black Seas Brigs

 

after priming I glued the hull and deck together

   

     I really don't have a need for these or any real reason to be painting them right now but they are such nice models that I couldn't help myself. 

 

a thinned wash of light brown over the wooden deck

 

then I painted the inside of the gunwales and the cannon carriages red

 

then I picked out the cannon barrels on the inside 

and painted the muzzles and gunports black on the outside 

the gratings were painted dark brown and the details picked out in white

 

they were coming along nicely so far, 

the somewhat exaggerated details make painting all that much easier

 

then the upper outside hull got a stripe of yellow

 while the lower half of the hull got charcoal grey

 

 

 the hammocks along the railing got a shade of grungy brown-gray

 

at first I thought about leaving them at this stage, 

but I decided that they needed more color

 

so one got an upper stripe of black while the remaining unit got a blue stripe

 

the masts were done up in yellow and black 

but they look terribly naked without sails and at least some sort of rigging

 

one final bit was a wash of burnt umber over the inside 

to make the deck planking pop and the pull everything together 

     I have to say that the models paint as easily as they assemble and look quite nice even given my limited skills. The lack of standing rigging in this scale will have to remedied as will the absence of sails, but that is work for another day.