From here to Infinity

About this time I decided that the under armor was a bit too light so I washed it with a 1/1 mix of Twilight Blue and then highlighted with a 2/1 mix of Snow Shadow. I think it added some better depth and in the future I’ll probably just go with this rather than over coating with Snow Shadow.

The last significant area left to paint was his gun. Generally it seems people hit them with black, highlight and call it a day. I considered going this route but would like to do a bit more to make the weapons interesting. I painted the rifle, side arm and some metal bits in Blackened Steel – 09205 – 3/1 (a metallic paint) which gave them a nice look. I still want to do something more but I’m not sure what yet (some ideas include a dark wash, adding additional colors or adding camo). I think the key is going to be doing enough to give the weapons some life but not so much as to pull attention from the main part of the models. Regardless this will do for now.

With all the major colors down it was time to refine and clean up. I painted his backpsck in Midnight Blue – 09019 – 2/1 to define it and break up the lighter blue and then circled back to the armor plates. The white was pretty rough so I hit it all with a couple of coats of Pure White again at a 3/1 mix. I then highlighted with Pearl White – 09100 – 2/1 which has a nice sheen to it. I considered doing all the armor in this but stuck to highlighting only.

His left forearm has what looks like a screen on it so I hit that with undiluted Pine Green – 09010 and a touch of Pale Green – 09012 to give it that electronic screen look.

Lastly I came back to the yellow which seemed to lack depth and was mainly just the Marigold Yellow. To break it up I washed it in Highlight Orange – 09243 – 1/3 (the highlight color for a different triad) then went back to the Marigold Yellow at 2/1 and finally mixed in a bit of Sun Yellow – 09008 to highlight.

At this point he’s about done. Still need to determine if the gun will be getting more work and he needs to be based but he’s completed his test subject mission. Next up will be his fellow Zhanshi.