Scourge Starter Fleet Done!

They're done! Phew. These space-squids took a while to paint.

This was my first usage of colorshift paints. I ordered a bunch and tried them, but ended up using just Turbo Dork 4D Glasses over glossy black primer.

I selectively shaded it with Black Templar contrast paint. It was thin enough to outline shapes on the surfaces as a wash might, but much stronger than Nuln Oil and the like, and the satin finish worked nicely.

The silver spines took easily 80% of the total paint time. I used Vallejo Metal Color White Aluminum: this is a very bright silver. To prevent it from flowing around the model, I used a dry paper towel as my pallete: one drop of paint onto the paper towel would wick most of the medium out of the paint, leaving a film of very strong pigment on top that achieved very strong coverage even with the tiniest brush, and was easy to control.

Then I had to be patient and paint the top surface of each spine segment, staying within the lines. The dry paint I used definitely helped but it took forever.

Then, the reds and yellows are just Citadel paints, going from Evil Sunz Scarelet, over Troll Slayer Orange, to Yriel Yellow.

Nuff said I think. These look great in person. It was difficult to capture them with my phone's camera, so I edited the colors afterwards. I think I got the colors close to what I see in person, although it's not perfect.

With this, I'm ready to give the starter set a try as soon as I get my vaccines and get a friend over.

Thanks for looking!

UCM Starter Fleet Done!

I've played through the Homeworld games again a few months back. It turns out that there's a rerelease of Homeworld: Cataclysm, that I didn't know about, and Deserts of Kharak was on my backlog for years. They're good games still! And they really got me into spaceships and "look how big this one is compared to this other one" in scifi. So I got the Dropfleet Commander starter set and it scratched that itch really well.

Here's my UCM fleet, in Hiigaran colors. I'm working on the Scourge part right now.

I wanted to keep it quick and simple, so I used washes and wet blending to great effect. Yeah there was a lot of panel highlighting but it's nothing to blending and highlighting trim on Adeptus Titanicus models. I'm used to this kind of torture I guess.

For blue, I used Scale75 Azul de Bering, with some white mixed in for the highlight and Drakenhof Nightshade for the darker shade. It's all wet blended very roughly, but the panels are small enough that it doesn't show, especially once you panelline and bring it together.

For orange, I used Scale75 Mars Orange, brightened with white and darkened with Fuegan Orange. For the white panels, I used a 50/50 mix of white and Ushabti Bone, darkened and lighened changing the ratio between those two colors. All the little dots and lines that serve as surface detail are just white. I used Nuln Oil to panelline everything and shade metals, which are Vallejo Metal Color Silver with White Aluminum as spot highlight.

Thanks for looking!