Dreadball Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2022

Drybrushing.  For when you want to get stuff done FAST, and aren’t feeling too precious about the results!

We’ve just had the Easter weekend.  I don’t know where you are or how your country handles things, but for us in the UK that means we’ve just had a 4 day weekend and some pretty nice weather with it too.  This means I’ve had a lot of free time and some solar powered motivation to go with it.  I’ve got a lot done over the last week.  I doubt I can fit it all in one update.  I’m not convinced I can remember it all  lets plug ahead with this and see how useful my notes (quick pics of a line of paints next to a model) actually are.  All pics are taken after the model was finished and varnished.

So where was I?  Ah yes.  Sann-Gar…

I pic washed the orange armour to give it the depth it was lacking.  I made a wash out of AK11079 Burn Orange mixed with a little P3 Khador Red Base.  once dry, I carefully drybrushed him with AK11076 Pastel Peach.  it made all the difference.

I then went to finish off the silvers.  I reached for the Vallejo Chainmail and grabbed VGA 72.752 Silver by mistake and didn’t realise until later.  I highlighted with this and then added glints with VMA 71.064 Chrome.

The yellow gems(?) were given many coats of Mission models MMP-159 Iridescent Lemon Yellow.  This isn’t as good as their pearl red unfortunately.  I put a coat or two of Mission models MMP-148 Pearl Red inside the glowing thing on his glove.  Once everything was varnished, these red and yellow parts got a final coat of Gloss Varnish, along with the eyes.

The teeth were picked out in GW Screaming Skull and highlighted with P3 Menoth White Highlight.

This was all done in a couple of evenings across the week, and he was finished except the varnishing by the end of Thursday.  Everything from this weekend was varnished collectively Monday afternoon.

It’s now Friday morning and I’ve got no active projects.  The colour shifted robot types looked like quick wins so I went with them next.  Alo-Khan, The Praetorian, and the Neobot Captain.

Silver/Iron

Base: VGC 72.053 Chainmail Silver
Wash: Jan’s Magimix (see earlier post)
Drybrush/brush Highlight: VMA 71.064 Chrome

Yellow eyes

Based as above then painted with 2-3 coats of A.Mig-097 Crystal Orange

Blue Glow

Undercoat with highly thinned white
Base with watery P3 Arcane Blue
Highlight with watery P3 Arcane Blue mixed with P3 Menoth White Highlight
Reclaim silver as appropriate

White Stripes on Red Robot

Base with Reaper MSP 09150 Bloodless Skin
High with Bloodless Skin with some pure white mixed in

While everything usually ends with a coat of matt varnish, I allowed all colour shifted areas to keep a final coat of gloss varnish, and then brushed on matt varnish around them.

According to the date stamps on the pics on my phone, this was all I got done on Friday.  The new season of Diablo 3 started at 4pm and I jumped on to that and spent the rest of the evening playing instead of painting.  One of the perks of a 4fourday weekend is that the pressure is off to get stuff done by a deadline.

I also caught up with Picard.  Were we supposed to think that was Dr Julian Bashir?  Was that a deliberate choice to make us not think, or a poor, confusing casting choice?