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Battletech Mercenary Locust in 1/60

Battletech Mercenary Locust in 1/60

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Assembly and painting

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Once the torso was done and all the custom build completed, it was time to turn to painting.   What’s in my head is a small Periphery Merc band, working to make their way on some back-water planet just trying to survive.  Even though the Locust is the smallest of the ‘Mechs, it’s still a ‘Mech and I wanted to give it a bad-ar$e look.   The Emblem is straight out of Mechwarrior.

I chose to give it an overall green paintjob with an obviously replaced or re-plated leg.  Once It got the base color, I beat the heck out of it.  BattleMechs  have been around for centuries, so I wanted the paint job to reflect that abuse.

Once the base colors were laid down and the custom-printed transfers were on, I went and used Armor modeling techniques to give it the worn look.   I started with sponge chipping with multiple colors, and then a bit of brush chipping.  Then I went in with the artist oil weathering techniques.   I really love how they work – and the levels of color work we can get with it really gets the look I was after.

I also intentionally heat-stressed the paint colors on the Nuclear Reactor hatch, with the idea to give it the same kind of look that ww2 tanks have on their exhausts.

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