What do i do with this grey Battletech stuff?
Base colours and tanks don't look metal
Ignore the bad paint job.
It’s base coat. Colours? Well Halfords ‘camouflage acrylic spray paint’ (see you can buy camo paint!), Army painter ash grey and a Burnt Umber oil wash.
but i get ahead of myself. Tanks aren’t metal, they don’t have any shiny metal showing.
See what I mean, it’s green with some black bits. So I wont be using any metallic paints…….yet…..
Now the Eridani come in green, well that’s a dull colour that no one really wants to paint, so as the green I’m using is a grey green, I’m going to use a light grey to give a bit more colour on the mini while still being tied into the over all scheme.
Now if we look at the last image on Battletech colour schemes ( a great resource, link here https://unitcolorcompendium.com/ ) we can see that grey has also been used here.
Now over this i have chucked down a burnt umber oil wash. The reason for this is to a) panel line but also b) it will have a really nice matt finish.
So that’s going to sit and dry for a while, probably for a week as oils take a while to dry. This will give me some time to make a choice. Do i either do panel lining and high lighting or do i b) rely on the oil wash panel lines and use weathering to make the mini look less flat.
Below is an example of base coat and oil paint washes with no highlighting and it looks good.
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