A Brave New World

I managed to get a day to get stuff done and set about adding some paint to the crashed aeroplane stl I had printed out ages ago.

For this I turned to my go-to painting medium, Rattle-Cans.

I started with a grey filler primer over everything followed by a cheap grey primer from the local hardware store.  After that a few progressively lighter shades before finishing off the hull with a gloss white.  Once that was done, I masked of the hull structure leaving the area I wanted red clear and gave that a nice coat of read spray paint.

Next up I used a variety of different spray paints to create some weathering.  Black, Brown and Zandri Dust.

The bases were sprayed with Brown, Desert Yellow and Zandri Dust.   I didn’t mind about overspray as it just added to the weathering.

I used Citadel technical paint over the bases to create a cracked earth look and then dabbed dark brown paint on pits of the wreckage with a sponge.  Finally, I added small amounts of silver to show some chipping and add some variety to the colours used.

The crates were pretty much painted in the same way, but I used a really cheap wide kids paint brush to paint them.  They were supposed to look rough anyway so no point in using expensive paintbrushes on these.

The wooden-looking framework was Rattle-Canned with Black followed by a light dusting of Brown.

Sure, there is still more detail I could add.  The bases for one need some work done on them and I will probably add some lettering to the plane hull at some point but at the moment my printer is out of ink so I can’t make a stencil.

There are also parts of the gantries which should be metal that are currently painted brown, but for now, it’s playable and nothing is stopping me from going back and adding more detail.

The whole lot took less than a day to paint, so I am pretty happy with that.  It’s not the best paint job I have ever done but I think with the post-apocalypse wasteland you can get away with things looking a little rough.  I find it adds to the charm of the setting a bit when it all looks a little rough anyway.