Bot War Painting Challenge 2021 - Atlanticans Rising

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Project Entry by rum8le

Day 12...

June 21, 2021

Tutoring 9

Skill 9

Idea 9

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Top brass

Atlantican Air Warriors starting position

The next bots I will be focusing on are Kamen and the air warriors Moray & Stingray. The plan for these bits will be similar to the others, a TMM starting point, contrast glaze over the top and then edge highlight for pop.

The original art for Kamen is very similar to what I have done already, so I will try to work my scheme in where I can. The Air Warriors though are originally yellow, and seeing as I hate yellow and my first attempt failed, I will approach this slightly differently.

Kamen artwork

Starting off with the basecoat, I added a little Vallejo Metal Air Gold into the Black Metal to have a slightly warmer starting point.

For the next layer I again added gold, this time mixed into the Gun Metal and worked this over the whole model but eying to leave some of the basecoat in the recesses.

Finally I used straight Vallejo Air Metal brass for the final layer. My reason for this is it should give a solid yellow starting point to work up from without turning too green (that’s the plan anyway, this is all experimental)

For Kamen I choose to leave some of the parts without brass to add some variety to the character. Like Neptune he has a lot of extra detail so introducing some variety at this point may help during the next phase as well.

…. If not there’s always the Biostrip

To finish off I gave each model a wash with a very thinned down Umbra ink from Liquitex. This was used to harmonise the metals, add more warmth, and also preshade some of the recesses where armour joints meet.