Bot War Painting Challenge 2021 - Atlanticans Rising

Air brushing the Air Warriors was the order of the day. I had a plan in mind but needed to make sure it would work. I had two options, yellow or turquoise, and this decision would dictate the rest of the project…. And if it went wrong I would have made a horrendous gamble.

With that in mind I did 2 things today, firstly I grabbed a test model I had laying around to experiment with, the second was to order more models as backup ??

Grabbing a bit of old plastic model leftover from a previous kit bash (pic at the end) I painted it up roughly the same as the air warriors with a similar TMM base and brass finish.

Over this I used my airbrush to spray 2 Citadel Contrast colours on different sections, Iyanden Yellow on one and Aethematic Blue on the other.  Depending how these worked out would help me decide the final scheme for the Air Warriors. I sprayed the yellow first and liked the result, it was a nice warm gold, with the hint of the metallic underneath, but as soon as I sprayed the the blue I loved the result, over the top of the brass it created a lovely green colour which would look great with the rest of the army, similar to them, but different to signify the different type of unit.

With the Aethematic Blue chosen I set to work with the airbrush to lightly spray a couple of thin coats over the bots, trying to make sure it didn’t pool as the brass underlayer was significantly brighter it was less forgiving then the chrome/gunmetal workup I had done previously.

This looked awesome, especially on Kamen which you can see in the following gallery.

The final thing I wanted to do today was to block in some of the grey parts to help break up the bot’s armour and help me to visualise where I would then place the yellow spot colour details. This was done the same as before using a decent opaque coast if P3 Ironhull Grey. Unlike the mud warriors there was significantly less “joint” armour on the Air Warriors, so this was mostly in deep elbow/knee recesses, the face plates, waists, and fingers.

Tomorrow I will start the yellow details, but for now I’m very happy with my progress and the experiment. The bonus is I will also be getting some Atlantican reinforcements in the next couple of days to round out this force for a battle.