Macrocosm Digger Corps
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About the Project
Starting to paint the first Kickstarter project that I backed.
Related Game: Stargrave
Related Company: Macrocosm
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Completed
Starting
SortingI am going to paint these diggers as a intergalactic peace keeping force so have been look at picture of UN soldiers for inspiration. Going for some bright blues for the helmets and the flak jackets and shoulder pads.
Basing
Grey primer
White primer from above
Fyreslayer flesh on the facesBlues
Flak jacket and helmets painted electric blue then washed with blue tone. Then highlighted with the electric blue followed with a further highlight of a mix of electric blue / wolf grey (50/50).
fatigues, boots and gloves and beards
Heavy grey on fatigues
Leather brown on boots, gloves and pouch's
Beards desert yellow, filthy brown and charred brownwash and first three highlighted
Strong tone wash and black templar on weapons
On the visors thin lines of bronze flesh, bronze flesh/bone white (50/50),bone white and white from top to bottom.
Then a glaze of Iyanden yellow.The high lights were done next. The fatigue’s had a 50/50 mix heavy grey/ dead flesh. The leather parts had a 50/50 mix leather brown / desert yellow. The shoulder pads had a apothecary white coat then highlights of white ink. The weapons had a dry brush of stone wall grey then a wash of nuln oil.
Going with the UN theme I used the runes from the image below to put the marking on the shoulder pads.
runes
All the rest up to the same point
All at the same pointFinally got all the diggers up to the same point. Starting the basing plague brown first. Going for a desert look on these models.
Starting basesBases finished
Bases were dry brushed bone white and then washed with light tone. Then dry brushed with desert yellow. then some tuffs of dry green and red static grass. Followed with black rims.
