Bot War - C.O.I.L.S Vengeance

Sooo many turrets.

3 turrets is the normal amount that you get in the faction box for Bot War, but when you’re a crazy collector like me you end up with 11 of them.

I tried to be a bit ambitious today and get them all painted up but it wasn’t to be. They’re the last of the small units so I don’t mind spreading this batch over 2 days as long as I can get another model completed tomorrow.

To help get these turrets painted up I decided against hand painting the brown bases (needing 3 coats per base I didn’t fancy painting 33 layers of brown), so instead I made up a new batch of my Scale75 Gobi Brown + Citadel Baneblade Brown, loaded up and my Bartsharp airbrush and hit all 11 at once!

After each pass I hit the minis with a blast from my little hobby hairdryer before applying the next coat, and after about 10 minutes the brown was down!

With the bases basecoated I then set about drybrusbing then with citadel longbeard, and then blocked in all of the other base colours in the main turret assembly. Anthracite for the armour, Ironhull Grey for the joints, and Gunmetal for the vents and turrets.

Everything was then given a heavy P3 Armour Wash shade, including the bases and then hit with the hairdryer again.

The base rims were blocked in with brown to tidy them up, and armour panels were touched up with Anthracite were there had been some pooling/coffee staining of the shade.

2 hours in and the turrets are in a really good place to stop for tonight. The armour highlights will take some time tomorrow, but I will hopefully knock out Forktongue as well as finishing these defenses.