Dreadball Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2022

I got to do a little painting after work last night.  I sometimes get a couple of hours in on weekdays, so I try to use it wisely.  The nights goal was to get more washes in so they’d be dry before the weekend so I don’t waste any time waiting for stuff to dry.  As such, my steps for the night were:

1. Apply the second was on the undead flesh.  Its a 3 wash stage, so the sooner this wash is applied, the sooner I can get the next one on.
2. I dry brushed all the steel on the Corporation and the Refbot with P3 Cold Steel.  It’s quick and dirty, and what I assume I did last time so it should make it all more or less match
3. I applied some GW Nuln Oil in to the recesses on the RefBot.  The areas of pistons, and wiry mechanical “tendons” etc.  The goal was to make them more black and look separate to the shiny outer plating.  A quick and lazy way of breaking the model up and look like its made of multiple materials.
4. The tree man had been base coated with S75 Brown leather SC31 on Monday, so I applied a wash with slightly thinned S75 Inktense Chesnut SC81.  This will make for a good bark effect, which I learned from an Asset Drop guide, back when they were still active.
5. I base coated the blue areas on the corporation team.  Given the time I painted the last batch I’d most likely have followed the Privateer Press guide for Cygnar Blue from “Forces of Warmachine – Cygnar” (see below pic).  The codex for Cygnar from the previous edition, which is presumably out of print.  I’m pretty sure I skipped steps last time so I’ll be skipping some here.  I’ll likely skip step 2, wash step 3, drybrush step 4 carefully where I can , and maybe do a quick drybrush of 5 on the top of the helmet.  We will see.
6. With 3-4 coats of Step 1 down, I went for a shower to ensure it was fully dry before the next stage
7. With me and the base coat fully dry, it was that time in the evening where I usually down tools and read or watch TV to wind down.  However, if you have a wash to apply it should always be the last thing you do in a session, not the first thing you do, given the chance.  You don’t want to be sat around waiting for drying times.  As such, I got back to work for a while longer, and shaded the blue
8. The undead flesh was dry, so it seemed silly not to apply the third and final wash there too.

Tonight I likely finish of the blue, pick out some eyes and either do some bases, or move on to other minis and bulk base and varnish a bunch of stuff together later.  It’ll be more efficient to bulk base, but there’s something to be said for the motivation boost for getting stuff completely finished and off the table.  Progress breeds progress.