One annoying thing about the matchmaking system is that players are not matchmade according to their levels. WASD moves your avatar while weapons and items are assigned to buttons 1 through to 0. Hotkeys and controls are tried and tested formulas as well. This happy medium serves Avatar Star well: skirmishes don't dissolve in a blur of unidentifiable motion, allowing even the least seasoned of players to understand what is going on. The game moves more slowly compared to Blackshot and CounterStrike: Global Offensive, but avoids the snail's pace found in more realistic shooters. There are three different modes - King of the Hill, Team Death Match, and Domination mode (basically capture the flag) - plus a random game selector. Users create an avatar and are brought into a lobby area, where they can browse the cash shop, check out their inventory, or join a game. This was very fiddly painting so I opted to just paint the name of the ship, and leave the other side in blue, and I just picked out one side of the destroyers, since it has the class name on both sides.Avatar Star follows the typical Korean MMO formula when it comes to its user interface and matchmaking process. For the larger ships the name is on one side, the class is on the other. The final step was to pick out the names of each ship, at least on one side. Once I was content with the look of each base I cleaned up the edges with Dark Sea Blue again and then brushed on gloss varnish along the top.Īlthough it’s not a very pronounced effect, I like how the green and blue washes can be seen in some areas, so I think I’d keep using this method and maybe figure out how far I can push it to perhaps represent shallower water, more turquoise colours etc. Then I picked out the larger “bow feather” waves and those pushing outward from the ship, also picking out the waves in the wake with pure white paint.

Next the wake of the ship was started with a thin wash of white paint and when mostly dry a little touch of green and blue washes were also mixed in, to impart the effect of depth and roiled water.

The intent was to just pick out the tops of each little wave, so it looked like wind-swept water. Kumano, bottom, has only the first green wash applied.įrom here, I applied a light white dry brush. Mogami, top, has blue wash over the green. I paint the lifeboats white with a brown interior or upper structure, and that’s it! I then pick out some shrouds on the guns, where the barrels meet the turret, in a different grey colour. To paint the deck I carefully work the paint around the deck fittings and superstructures, leaving the grey everywhere else. In retrospect, this is a bit more red than I wanted and Flat Brown would probably have been a good choice as well. This is also a great way to help differentiate your two navies, so give some thought to both historical colour choices but also how you want your models to look.įor the Japanese I chose Vallejo Mohagany Brown 70.846 as my deck colour. Over the years I have seen pictures, colour images and models of Japanese ships with a fairly red/brown deck colour. I already knew that I wanted the Japanese ships to look darker than the American ones, so they get an overspray of Tamiya’s “IJN Grey” spray paint and then a lighter grey drybrush followed by a very light white dry brush. My quick research indicated that while the US cruisers did have camo applied at times, during the war period they seemed to be one standard colour and the Japanese ships were also fairly uniform.Īccordingly all ships are started with Tamiya grey spray paint to start. I’m basically going to apply several dry brushed colours, pick out the details as needed and then use Army Painter’s Dark Tone wash to apply shadows around everything.īoth navies were known to use camouflage, with the Americans using broad areas of blues and greys on some ships, including blue decks even, while the Japanese very famously painted some of their carriers in a multicolour green camouflage scheme, as well as other ships. Following on from Howard's First Thoughts on Warlord Game's new Victory at Sea, we have Howard walking us through how he painted up the stores Demo Ships.įrom the experience I got painting my GHQ ships for the first edition of Victory at Sea, I felt I could use a fairly quick and easy method to get these models ready for the table top.

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