Dreadball Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2022

Saturday was supposed to be a dedicated day of painting but I found between every colour, I’d get up and do some housework or DIY, to the extent I accidentally started demolishing my lean-to, which I wasn’t planning on starting yet.  It was sheltering the last of the Ivy I spent most of last year trying to murder, and the ivy was growing happily inside it, so it had to be done.

So what painting did I do?

1. I fished out my Marauders and Iron Ancestor and I did a targeted shade wash with P3 Sanguide Base.  This was applied only to the recesses and edges where shadow would appear.
2. I started mostly ignroing the Khador Red guide from earlier, and just using it as a suggestion.  I applied a drybrush highlight using P3 Khador Red Base, and then a final drybrush highlight, trying just to catch the hard edges, using AK 11076 Pastel Peach
3. Orc flesh was previously painted with VGA Goblin Green I think.  My pot ran out or dried up ages ago, so I googled what it looked like, and grabed a “close enough” colour: P3 Iosan Green.  This took 4-5 coats over the red
4. The flesh was washed with P3 Gnarls Green.  Normally, I’d mix in a burgandy as that shades green more realistically, but I hadn’t learned that when I painted the previous Orcs and I’m trying to colour match.
5. They were then drybrush highlighted with P3 Bog Moss.  I tried P3 Wyrm Green first, but it didn’t make uch of a difference.
6. The black metals were painted with VGA 72754 Gunmetal, ashed with GW Nuln Oil, and drybrushed with P3 Pig Iron.
7. The more silvery irons were painted with P3 Pig Iron, then washed with GW Nuln Oil before I called it a night and went off to read God Emperor of Dune.  In the morning, they’ll lilkey get a drybrush highlight of p3 Cold Steel.

A productive Saturday.  If I’m left to my own devices I hope to finish the Marauders and get the Asterians on my tray tomorrow.  I have to run my first D&D session for over a month in the evening though, so I’ll need time to prep for that.