Bot War Painting Challenge 2021 - Atlanticans Rising

I’ll be honest, I spent a bit more than 30 minutes today painting. But I needed to have a solid painting session for a number of reasons, including the fact that I still have a lot of Bots to do and 11 days in and I only have one finished (that isn’t even based).

Continuing where I left off yesterday I began by mixing in P3 Blazing Orange to my Pro-acryl yellow to crate a warming glaze that I could apply to the yellow parts, drawing my brush down and lifting off towards the bottom of the detail. This ensures that pigment is concentrated at the last contact point, as this is a more orange colour than before it creates some good volume.

A few glazes of this mix, and then some straight transparent yellow to help blend, and these details were ready for a highlight. This was achieved using Scale75 Hykey Yellow. This is a lovely icy yellow which is great in proper NMM workups and worked equally well here. You can see on the shield of Nami, where the orange and icy yellow are more obvious. Again some thin glazes of transparent yellow help to bring these colours together.

Painting in the eye lenses I used some Kimera Colors magenta (that I had decanted and mixed with some flow improver for a previous airbrush project), and pro-acryl Magenta. You can see how different these two paints are in their saturation.  The Kimera made a good base in the eye sockets, and then the Pro-acryl was used for the detail.

The final thing to do was edge all of the green armour. This was a long part of the painting session and also the most fiddly, having to paint under a hot lamp with a thin brush meant my paint was drying too quickly, but thinning it too much made it difficult to get saturation and thin lines. It’s not the cleanest finish but I’m happy with the results. The edge paint used was the scale75 fantasy & games Surfer Orc Green, the same as Neptune. This does compliment the green well and give the bots that nice Tron-like 80s pop.

As always, there’s always something left to do, weapons, this was a quick coat of Scale75 Alchemy Emerald green, this was also used on Neptune as its essentially a green tinted chrome and worked well to show metal in keeping with the nautical theme.

5 down, 5 to go.