Bot War Painting Challenge 2021 - Atlanticans Rising

Unfortunately my experience with the yellow contrast paints didn’t work out as planned, so they took a little bath in some Biostrip 20.  The 2 different shades of yellow didn’t sit well with me, so instead of spending too much longer trying to work out a better way to balance them out I stripped them back. I do have a plan for them, but for now it’s back to unprimed resin for those 2.

It’s worth noting that Biostrip 20 is great for metal models, but it can have different effects on other resins. I have tried it before on citadel plastic and on Kingdom death plastic, but on these original grey resin bots I found they started to become a bit soft, so I was cautious to not leave them soaking too long (20 minutes), and washed them off using a stiff brush before resoaking for a further time. It’s better to repeat the process than to ruin a model by leaving it too long in the bio-bath.

After a good wash with clean water these will be ready for a new primer coat.

But at least I could progress Neptune today. Over the metal basecoat I applied with my airbrush a coat of dark angel green contrast paint from below, 5hrn a mix of Dark Angel green and a little Akhelian Green to make a nice teal green. That went over the mid and from above.

A final highlight from directly above was applied using a lovely mix of Vallejo Metallic Air chrome with Akhelian green mixed into it.  One of the issues I found from my initial coats were that the top highlights were light enough, so this lustred metallic teal made everything shine in the right way, it’s just a right pain to photograph.