Battletech Mercenary Locust in 1/60
Assembly and painting
Once the torso was done and all the custom build completed, it was time to turn to painting. What’s in my head is a small Periphery Merc band, working to make their way on some back-water planet just trying to survive. Even though the Locust is the smallest of the ‘Mechs, it’s still a ‘Mech and I wanted to give it a bad-ar$e look. The Emblem is straight out of Mechwarrior.
I chose to give it an overall green paintjob with an obviously replaced or re-plated leg. Once It got the base color, I beat the heck out of it. BattleMechs have been around for centuries, so I wanted the paint job to reflect that abuse.
Once the base colors were laid down and the custom-printed transfers were on, I went and used Armor modeling techniques to give it the worn look. I started with sponge chipping with multiple colors, and then a bit of brush chipping. Then I went in with the artist oil weathering techniques. I really love how they work – and the levels of color work we can get with it really gets the look I was after.
I also intentionally heat-stressed the paint colors on the Nuclear Reactor hatch, with the idea to give it the same kind of look that ww2 tanks have on their exhausts.
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