Bot War Painting Challenge 2021 - Atlanticans Rising

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Project Entry by rum8le

Day 3...

June 12, 2021

Tutoring 9

Skill 9

Idea 9

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Metal metal metal

So day 3 has fallen on a weekend, nice, I get a decent amount of painting time, don’t have to rush about or do a full day’s work, I can just plan and attack.

Today I wanted to get some more foundations layed to build upon for the week ahead. After playing about with yellows yesterday and still not happy I decided to do something different. In a way I feel I have wasted 2 days on the yellow, in reality it’s only a small step and one I can easily rectify in the coming week. Instead of pushing on with them, I put Moray and Stingray to one side and picked up Neptune.

Baron Neptune

“Driven mad by the rigors of King Gills war Baron Neptune petitioned Gills for the means to launch new attacks into the very heart of the Democracy.

The King saw this as an advantageous way attack the more fortified inland Democracy cities and spread the fear among the Democracy population that no where is safe from his reach.

To do this Gills has equipped his loyal courtier with a mech suit with which to battle potential Bot resistance.

Not as large or powerful as the CRAB, Neptune is faster and more agile. This is partly due to the improved interface and also partly due to Neptune’s growing madness and synergy with the mech. Indeed, after each battle it becomes harder and harder for Neptune to break the link with the suit.’

One of the other techniques I wanted to use during this challenge was applying filters over metals. This was a technique I had attempted previously on 54mm Goblin, and I have been enjoying watching a streamer friend JanuineVision use the technique again recently on the GW Crimson Court Vampires. He has done a great little video on the technique as well on his YouTube channel, which I re-watched during the week.

To start this process I needed a TMM base, so grabbed a Vallejo Metal Air triad and set to work, starting with a thin base layer of 71.073 Black Metal

Vallejo Metallic Air paints 71.073 Black Metal, 71.072 Gun Metal, 71.064 Chrome

With the black metal base dry I started to layer up using Gun Metal, leaving Black Metal in the recesses and making sure all of the primer had been coated (it was a thin Black Metal basecoat after all).

Once the Gun Metal had dried I hit all of the high points with Chrome to really get that shiny finish. I then went back with more Gun Metal and Black Metal to reinforce the contrast between the high middle shadow points.

My final bit of work on this model today was to mix some Liquitex Carbon Black ink into some Black Metal, and then using a very fine brush painted in some of the line details on the thighs and greaves, and push the shadow points underneath or separating armour points.

This will be left to cure, and I will consider which colour filter I want to apply over the top tomorrow.