Bot War Painting Challenge 2021 - Atlanticans Rising

And about 5% of the task complete. Really need to step it up a gear. The yellow debacle knocked me back but I do still have a plan.  Today though its pushing on with Neptune.

Wanting to really make progress with Neptune I decided to help the overall vision and block in some more colours. Painting the under-armour joints and limbs with P3 Iron Hull Grey gives me a solid (opaque) starting point for these parts which I can then go onto edge highlight tomorrow. The dark grey works well to separate out the armour sections and hold up well to blacklining. Plus if I make a mistake with blacklining the opacity of the P3 paints means it’s an easy remedy.

The next bit of colour blocking was to start to add the green gold trim, giving it a powerful look.

This was achieved by using a transparent yellow (Monument Pro-acryl In this instance) directly over the metallic basecoat of the amour pieces. This mix of the teal and yellow created a green gold that I would associate with a nautical scheme. This took a few coats due to the transparency of the paint and yellows generally poor coverage, and I will continue with more coats tomorrow. But I have started to introduce a warm tone to the gold using P3 Blazing Ink mixed into the transparent yellow.

After brushing some of the orange yellow mix on I wanted to leave things to dry so gave some parts a quick blackline with watered down carbon black ink. I didn’t want a harsh black at this point, just enough to lift some parts from each other, so the ink was diluted quite considerably.

30 minutes done.

15 days to go