My Cimmerian Mercenary Mech company is languishing in a big sulk. Well, I'm the one in a sulk as I'm having a complete arse of a time painting this 15mm armour to bring about my vision of a camo scheme inspired by the patterns on a granite rock.Sometimes you just have to walk away with dignity and sneak up on the problem when it's not l00king!
So, to keep my spirits up rather than downing some spirits, I decided to see if I could replicate the success of my Green HALO SPARTAN with a test figure for Blue Team.
HALO SPARTAN Blue Team
GZG 15mm New Israeli
HALO SPARTAN Blue Team
You Looking at Me?Once again two coats of Citadel Washes, onto the bare metal casting, in this case Asurmen Blue. No primer or undercoat. To speed things up, I carefully drybrushed Bolt Gun Metal over the rifle, leaving the dark blue wash in the detail of the weapon. A quick brush of Citadel Shining Gold on the visor completes the effect. I'd say no more than 45 seconds paintbrush time all told, not allowing for drying time between the two blue washes. The visor taking 10-15 seconds of that.
The figure is darker in actuality, a deep Oxford blue, but the camera flash bleaches the colours. The blue doesn't have the same 'shimmer' of the green miniature, but looks great nevertheless.
I was tempted to add some extra detailing, such as a stylised Greek Spartan helmet onto his right shoulder pad and some dots of colour as LED's on his backpack - but I wisely thought "don't push your luck tonight, quit whilst you're ahead and feel enthused".
Cheers
Mark
The figure is darker in actuality, a deep Oxford blue, but the camera flash bleaches the colours. The blue doesn't have the same 'shimmer' of the green miniature, but looks great nevertheless.
I was tempted to add some extra detailing, such as a stylised Greek Spartan helmet onto his right shoulder pad and some dots of colour as LED's on his backpack - but I wisely thought "don't push your luck tonight, quit whilst you're ahead and feel enthused".
Cheers
Mark
I think I like the blue better. Nice job.
ReplyDeleteDaniel
Thinking about your granite camo pattern, would a dark grey base coat - darker than Codex Grey, perhaps a Tamiya battleship grey - then black washed, then flecks of white dabbed or dry-brushed on from a stiff poster brush work?
ReplyDeleteLove your blog, BTW, your Israeli hardsuit paint jobs have inspired me to finish mine!
Very nice blog, sir. It is tempting me towards the heresy of another genre.
ReplyDeleteThis paint job is great, in that it is dead easy, and looks quite good. Don't think you could get away with it on a 25mm fig, but then, these are the One True Scale, aren't they?