From here to Infinity

Feeling rather lonely our sole Zhanshi called back to base for reinforcements. His request was answered immediately and a small holding force of four additional Zhanshi was dispatched to buy time until additional forces could be provisioned.

Having plotted out the paint job it was time to start applying it. The additional Zhanshi were painted largely following the same method as the original with a few tweaks.

The base coat was done with 3/1 mix of Twilight Blue – 09020 and then highlighted with Snow Shadow – 09021 – 2/1 which skipped the step where I washed with Snow Shadow and then had to rewash with Twilight Blue last time. In the end it ended up with a similar (if a little darker) result which I liked.

While base coating I realized I’d neglected to deal with a pretty significant gap at the hackers shoulder (oops). Since the Yisheng (doctor) was still waiting to be dispatched…err painted…his fellows did their best to patch him up.

With that distraction done I moved on to getting their coats painted. I decided to have two in a leather color and the third in a grey just to break things up a bit. The brown coats were done with Tanned Leather – 09031 – 3/1 followed by Leather Brown – 09030 – 2/1 highlights and then washed with Brown Liner – 09064 – 1/2. The grey had a slightly different order with Cloudy Grey – 09089 – 3/1 first followed by a wash of Grey Liner – 09065 – 1/2 and then highlighted with Misty Grey – 09090 – 2/1.

Armor was next using the same method as our test subject. I also went ahead and did the weapons in Blackened Steel again.

From there it was time to turn attention to their skin and hair. The hacker got done in Nightshade Purple – 09022 – 3/1, Imperial Purple – 09023 – 2/1 and then Amethyst Purple – 09024 – 1/0 and then Forest Green – 09013 – 3/1 and Jade Green – 09015 – 2/1. The Zhashi to his left was done with Chestnut Brown – 09071 – 3/1 and Brown Liner – 1/2. Our red head started with Carrot Top Red – 09242 – 3/1 followed by Auburn Shadow – 09241 – 1/1 and Highlight Orange – 09243 – 3/1. The last just got Faded Black – 09657 – 2/1. I also added in the first bits of orange/yellow as per the initial model.

Afterwards it was a lot of detail work on things like their knives, the hackers wrist computer and glasses, etc. Of note I decided to try some camo on the rifles which I’m fairly happy with.

Next up I think I’ll move onto the Kuang Shi.  With them done I’ll have both “groups” of models done and the rest will be singles or pairs.  Being that they’re pressed, brainwashed prisoners I might modify their paint scheme a bit but we’ll see.