CRC's Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo

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So, I went with grey in the end...

April 24, 2022

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The camo pattern on the top is done, and I even finished off the little bits and pieces on the mini, too…minus the glass; wasn’t sure what to do with that…I’ll get back to it later.

Started with a basecoat of Mechanicus Standard Grey (GW) because it's a pretty close approximation to the colours used on the Spitfires. I think it technically needs to be a little more of a green-grey to be accurate, but this works well enough for me.

Then I took some Waaargh! Flesh (GW) and thinned it down a tad bit more than normal to block out a rough shape of the green pattern. I decided to have a general trend of diagonal wobble across the fuselage, which works quite well, I think.

Then fill it all in! I had to do a couple of thin layers and had to really get into the gaps around the gun barrels in places, but I'm happy with the pattern.

Then the recess shading with Agrax Earthshade (GW). I swear there are double the panel lines on the top of this thing... I ended up having to take a break before I finished up the 2nd 'wing'. It does take time, but I swear it's worth it!

The carefully drybrush Dawnstone (GW) across the grey and Warboss Green (GW) across the green to brighten up the edges and such. Use a small brush and circular motion to keep on the colour you;re working on.

Then I did a light drybrush of Screaming Skull (GW) across the whole hull to get some sharper highlights. You could probably skip this part, but if you do then less truly is more here...

Then I picked out some extra details to finish it off. Red on the wings to mimic the red bands near the machine guns on a Spitfire, also a read casing on the end of the blasters just for a flash of colour. The little rectangle beneath the cockpit was too perfectly flag shaped to not do SOMETHING. The metal was based Leadbelcher (GW) and either coated in Black Templar Contrast (GW) or Wyldwood Contrast (GW) then drybrushed with Stormhost Silver (GW). The canopy glass was just blocked in with Stegadon Scale Green (GW) for now, as I’m not sure what to do with it. I was going to gloss it, but I want to do a bit more work, so I left it for now. I’ll get to it later, but for now she’s done.