Bot War - Mercenaries

After yesterday’s session building bots I was all set to begin the process of getting the base priming stages completed tonight. However I decided to try and find the remaining bots I needed to complete the faction. Their leader Blackwheel, and Highrise, the Deceiver Air Warrior.

If you have been following my other currently active Bot War project you will have seen that I painted Blackwheel very recently, only I went for a retro kick and painted him up as Cy-Kill, the evil bad guy from the 80s cartoon Go-Bots. Whilst I could use that Blackwheel, I was fortunate to have a second copy in my backlog so instead of having the bright red and blue version leading my Mercenaries, I figured I could at least paint up one that would be more fitting. So I built him.

Also whilst looking through my backlog I found my rewards for completing the February painting challenge over on the Bot War Facebook group. This year was a bit different and 2 rewards were up for grabs; the first being an exclusive sculpt of a Bot from the new White Knight faction which has just hit preorder and will play a huge role in the forthcoming global campaign. The other was a reward for completing 18 or more bots during February. As I painted 48 (which you can see in my other project) I was eligible for this so received a metal sculpt of another forthcoming release in the form of Gargoyle. I haven’t yet seen anyone from the Bot War community paint one yet so I’m hoping I may be able to be one of the first….. so Gargoyle also got built instead of Highrise.

And after that extra bit of building I hit them all with some Stynelrez Black primer and then a lateral spray with ComArt Opaque white.