CRC's Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo
It's happening, Reg! Something's actually happening, Reg!
I’ve been using the box as a stand long enough! The Age of the Marine is over*; the Age of the T-47 has come!
*Until I paint another one, of course...The basic plan for my T-47 is to mimic old WW2 camo that’s often used on things like Spitfires, but I started with the underside first. That being said, lets have a quick look at some reference images.
Still not sure if I’ll go with the Early War brown and green or the later grey and green, but for now I started with the underside. Now, the reference pictures show a bit of variation in the ‘blueness’ of the colour, and I think the colours I chose are a little too far into the blue for an ‘accurate’ colour, but my brother and I were discussing it earlier and he has an alternate method that he’s going to try on a Spitfire he has lying around that I think sounds pretty good.
Started with a basecoat of The Fang (GW) and I think this really was too dark of a base colour for the 'accurate' colour on the belly of a Spitfire, and Russ Grey may have been a better start point for that.
Next came an overbrush (heavy drybrush) of Russ Grey (GW) to brighten it up a tad. You could easily use this as a basecoat, though from a black undercoat like I have here a base layer of The Fang wouldn't be a bad idea all the same.
Then the recess shade! The more arduous part of mini painting... I used Drachenhof Nightshade (GW) here and it took me the better part of 30-40 minutes to get all the panel lines done... It's worth the effort, though!
Then a lighter overbrush of Fenrisian Grey (GW) over the top of that. For this and the other overbrushing I used circular motions as much as possible to cover the flats of the panels as well as the edges.
Then a final drybrush of Ulthuan Grey (GW) going from the front to the back of the mini as much as possible. This got a little streaky which I don't mind as a look of something that flies about, but it's probably because my brush was still a little damp from cleaning, so beware of that!And that’s the underside finished! Maybe I’ll get to the topside this evening…and I’m leaning towards the grey, I think…
The system my brother is going to try, though, it is to basecoat with Grey Seer (GW) maybe with some Fenrisian Grey (GW) mixed in, then a thinned down (pretty much to a glaze) coat of Gryphound Grey Contrast (GW) before highlighting (probably drybrushing) with Fenrisian Grey again. I think it should look good, but we haven’t tested it yet!
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