Dreadball Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2022

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Project Entry by lawnor

Teams Finished (9/4/22)

April 11, 2022

Tutoring 7

Skill 7

Idea 7

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On Monday I finished of the red, as detailed in the previous post, and then set to painting the Kalyashi’s cloth, and the hair:

Cloth

Base: Reaper 09149 Mouldy Skin
Shade Wash: Reaper 09148 Ghoul Skin
Highlight Drybrush: Reaper 09150 Bloodless Skin

Hair

Base: 3:2 Reaper 09024 Amethyst & Reaper 09023 Imperial Purple
Shade Wash: GW Druchii Violet
Highlight Drybrush: Reaper 09024 Amethyst

Holy hell, guys! I’ve been using this projects system since day 1 and I’ve just discovered that if you hold down shift while pressing enter it doesn’t give you the forced double line space thing! Am I dumb? Is this a common feature in lots of software? I’ve always hated putting lists on here as double line spaced lists look so wrong. No more of that now!

Next up I started off my Saturday by finishing off the details, then painting the blue and gold on the team captain

Leather Straps

Base: VMC 70.995 German grey
Highlight Drybrush: P3 Hammerfall Khaki
Shade Wash: GW Nuln Oil

Iron

Base: P3 Pig Iron
Shade Wash: GW Nuln Oil
Highlight: P3 Cold Steel

Gold

Base: GW Retributor Armour
Shade Wash: GW Seraphim Sepia
Highlight Drybrush: P3 Solid Gold

Blue

Base: P3 Meridious Blue
Highlight 1: P3 Arcane Blue
Highlight 2: P3 Arcane Blue mixed with p3 Frostbite

Eyes and bases where then painted across everything I’d done so far that needed it. The red stripe on the bases was undercoated with white and painted red before I painted the black. t makes it a hell of a lot easier that way. Transfers were applied, and everything was varnished with gloss and then matt.

The newly finished Corporation team

The new models (your left) compared to the ones painted years ago (your right)

The newly finished Marauders team

The new models (your left) compared to the ones painted years ago (your right)

The newly finished Z'zor team

The new models (your left) compared to the ones painted years ago (your right)

The newly finished Kalyashi team

Kailasa. Here's an example of why old Mantic models get a bad reputation. See those blue parts on her shoulders? On the web shop they're clearly feathers, with good detail. On mine they're indistinguishable bumps on bumpy shoulder pads. The sculpt has good detail, but on the final model, it's a bit lacking and can be frustrating to work with. These space elves had lots of narrow fiddly bits I wasn't keen on painting

Refbot

While the airbrush was already out for varnishing, I thought I’d apply some base coats on a couple more models, now I’d decided how to paint them.

Chovar (Space jellyfish)

Base: 1:3 Pro Acryl Blue: Pro Acryl Faded Ultramarine
Highlight: Pro Acryl Faded Ultramarine
Purple base transition colour: Reaper 09024 Amethyst Purple
Purple heavier colour: 2:1 Reaper 09024 Amethyst Purple: Reaper 09023 Imperial Purple
Heavier shades of purple were added by mixing in more Imperial Purple

Coach Fergus (Frog guy thing)

Base: 2:2 Mr Paint Purple Shadow : Mr Paint Swamp Green
High 1: 1:2 Mr Paint Purple Shadow : Mr Paint Swamp Green
High 2: 2:4 Mr Paint Purple Shadow : Mr Paint Swamp Green
High 3: Mr Paint Swamp Green

All layers were airbrushed from progressively steeper angles, so as to leave previous layers showing .

At this point I called it a day and went and watched Logan for the first time. How comes the bad guys were willing to murder, main, enslave, kidnap, perform live human experiments, clone people and all sorts of other horrible and illegal things, but they drew the line at crossing the border illegally? What part of that is just too evil for them? Good film otherwise though. Probably the X-Men movie that’ll hold up the best long term. Everything after the second was a bit poop (First Class was OK) and I suspect the first 2 were only good because there wasn’t anything to compare them to at the time.