Aliens Colonial Marines Dropship - droppin' with style
Step 8 - Painting, transfers and beginning shading.
At this point all the assembly is done and the base painting is down. I’ve done some pre-shading of panel lines with another overlayer of the final color. I chewed on what color to use, since the actual model is much more of a brown than a green. I ended up mixing a custom color with vallejo paints to get the final base color. I used Vallejo’s US Olive Drab, Brown Violet and pale grey blue in a 6-2-1 ratio. It still has the greenish cast but it’s dulled down and closer to the color I was looking for.
The exposed metal from the landing gear is basically leadbelcher or gunmetal with shading.
For transfers, I pulled stencil details from several model kits I’ve been through, although I did end up custom printing a few that I needed for specific purposes like the nose art and the big numbers on the side.
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