2005-05-08 IG Dreadnaught
This work was actually done Friday evening. My wife has extended Mother’s Day to be more resembling of Christmas. There is the week before Mother’s day (all of my to-do lists are reviewed and prioritized. The menu for the weekend is set. Cleaning assignments are laid out. Any extra curricular activities, a trip to the zoo, are planned etc…) Friday starts the Mother’s day weekend, my wife retreats to her lair to dictate to the rest of the family. Amazingly I cook dinner and get everyone to bed by 8:30 and the paint bug hit me. Actually I have a tank conversion brewing and wanted to finish my Heavy Sentinel and APEX before I start.
I had painted the base tan several weeks ago and the pictures did not please me. I was working at the local Rouge Trader (Victory Games http://www.victory-games.com/) and got some good advise from local painters.
The color however, has grown on me and I intend to stick with it. I used a bleached bone to weather the edges giving the APEX a used appearance. I used skull white to help highlight worn corners then putting a spot of Mithril Silver to show rubbed down to the metal.
The whole model and paint scheme is comming together now that I am getting to more and more details.
I have finished the base for the most part. The afore mentioned hobby shop does not do flock and stuff so unless I make it to the local and laughable Hobby Lobby this will probably be it for the base. I did not put in a lot of detail and great painting. I just don’t or can’t picture a lot of stunning detail on a battle field.
I did however get a great lesson in undercoating. The sand bags on the base are made from spare green stuff. I then painted them Cadian Green, Cammo Green, and up to a highlight of Bleached Bone. Bleached Bone is quickly becoming my highlight, worn look of choice. The green base of the green stuff helped in the overall look of worn green sandbags.
It is hard to see but I used Mithril Silver to edge some of the building structure or bent steel. I was considering using a mix of Orange and Brown to get a rust color but I decided to give this a new destruction feel.
I am still waiting for the final parts to finish the right side weapon. I do not expect them until possible late July. That means this goes on the shelf, next week or so I will be concentrating on my Heavy Sentinels.
Erik
I had painted the base tan several weeks ago and the pictures did not please me. I was working at the local Rouge Trader (Victory Games http://www.victory-games.com/) and got some good advise from local painters.
The color however, has grown on me and I intend to stick with it. I used a bleached bone to weather the edges giving the APEX a used appearance. I used skull white to help highlight worn corners then putting a spot of Mithril Silver to show rubbed down to the metal.
The whole model and paint scheme is comming together now that I am getting to more and more details.
I have finished the base for the most part. The afore mentioned hobby shop does not do flock and stuff so unless I make it to the local and laughable Hobby Lobby this will probably be it for the base. I did not put in a lot of detail and great painting. I just don’t or can’t picture a lot of stunning detail on a battle field.
I did however get a great lesson in undercoating. The sand bags on the base are made from spare green stuff. I then painted them Cadian Green, Cammo Green, and up to a highlight of Bleached Bone. Bleached Bone is quickly becoming my highlight, worn look of choice. The green base of the green stuff helped in the overall look of worn green sandbags.
It is hard to see but I used Mithril Silver to edge some of the building structure or bent steel. I was considering using a mix of Orange and Brown to get a rust color but I decided to give this a new destruction feel.
I am still waiting for the final parts to finish the right side weapon. I do not expect them until possible late July. That means this goes on the shelf, next week or so I will be concentrating on my Heavy Sentinels.
Erik
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