Flashpoint

Intro

The next game with miniatures I wanted to paint was Flashpoint. We got it some years ago and liked playing it, because the base game it easy to understand we have more possibilities to play it. I wanted to paint them so others can see what I'm up to. I mostly used the cheap action paints and some Liquitex paints.

References

I used the game art for reference. Unfortunately the art uses yellow fireman but were I live they have mainly black clothing. Since the game was bought by my girlfriend, I let her choose the colours. She chose black. While I can understand why she chose it, it still is a very unsuitable for base colouring. Red and yellow colours hardly cover it. I had to improvise a lot and think of nice contrasting colours.

Experiences, Tips & Tricks

Since the spray primer was not a complete succes when painting 'Mansions of Madness', I decided to spray half of the miniatures, and brush-primer the other half. There were several notable differences.
The spray primer coat was much thicker, it almost evened out small details and I expect the remaining details will be covered by paint.
The paint sticks noticeably better to the spray primer.
Spray priming is much faster, but also needs rework by brush at small parts.
The used spray primer gave a much rougher surface. The brush-primered surface is much smoother. The rough surface may be wanted for fur coats etc, but not for fireman ;).
The art provided with Flashpoint does not provide enough details for defining the used colours.
I decided to paint lots of yellow 'reflectors'. These look nice in close-up but are much harder to see from playing distance.
Painting the models completely black was stupid. It did cost me a lot of layers (and time) to cover the black with the lighter area's.
Also, using black makes it hard (impossible for a starter) to highlight.
Black is not a good colour for boardgame miniatures, as often there is not a lot a light when playing the game. I advise to use light and bright colours.
Bronze does not go well over red. After three layers of bronze it still looks like 'shining red'.

Work in Progress Picture

During this project I started to see that the bad spray primer was really influencing my end result. The fireman on the left was primered by brush while the one on the right was spray primered. This picture clearly shows that the model on the left has a much smoother surface. This also has effect on the wash as it does not end up in the recesses, which is visable on the helmet.

Color Scheme

Since it concerns a single team of firefighters with largely comparable clothing, I used the same colours on practically all minis.

Common colours

Suits (and base colour): 793 black
Helms and tools: 315 crimson red as base, with 302 scarlet highlights
Neon striping: 120 Yellow Mid as base layer, 215 Lemon for other layers and 215 Lemon mixed with Gold for top layer.
Whites: 104 Titanium White
Masks and cables: Neutral Grey Value 5
Helmet plates: Liquitex Bronze

Blue firefighter

Suit: 450 Phthalo Blue with 443 Ultramarine highlights

Dog

601 Raw Sienna

Glasses

450 Phthalo Blue
443 Ultramarine Blue
453 Cobalt Blue
360 Sky Blue
2 stripes: 104 Titanium White

Final Pics

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