JOIN THE CARNEVALE
Brian Cameron has been painting Carnevale – both buildings and figures! He says that the swashbuckling, skirmish game, set in Venice in 1795, which includes gothic horror/fantasy elements appealed to him. “The attraction for me is the acrobatic, flashingblades style combat, reminiscent of the Richard Lester Four Musketeers films of the ‘70s.”
“The resin figures are slightly fragile but the designs are superb, full of character and animation. I also painted up the free Barnabotti figure for
Carnevale supplied in issue 451. The clean up required is about the same as many metal castings and I’ve mounted them on clear acrylic bases. This posed a few problems with figures who only have only one foot or hand in contact with the base so I pinned them with a length of wire to reinforce the superglue. This is a genre where one can go to town on the painting as only few figures are required and you can utilise colours which rarely get opened.”
The starter set contains game boards and foldup cardboard buildings but Ttcombat also produce a large
range of buildings using lasercut MDF. Brian added that “although this isn’t my favourite medium as – to my eyes – the locating tabs at the corners spoil the look, Ttcombat have added quoins and other features in laser-cut card to cover such areas. Some of the MDF kits have tabs just slightly too wide to fit in the slots and so require a little sanding down so: wear a mask because of the hazardous dust. MDF needs priming to avoid it ‘drinking’ the paint: household matt polyurethane varnish works well followed with emulsion – I used cheap ‘sample pots’ supplemented with various brands of acrylics. Anyway, although I’ve made a start on the Venetian Quarter set I still have another six buildings to keep me busy!”