I've been asked about my painting technique, so here's a quick tutorial for how I paint my Terran starships. First, I prime the ship with flat black spray paint (no hobby store brands; I just use Rust-Oleum or Krylon from the local hardware store):
Next, I drybrush the ship in the darkest color of the tripartite scheme I'm using. Again, no special game store paints; just craft paints from hobby stores. In this case, for the Terran Red Fleet, I start out with Anita's brand Rust Red (which actually looks sorta brownish to me):
Next, I drybrush the intermediate hue. Here, it's a much brighter True Red from Americana:
Finally, the last color, lightest of the bunch. Here, the Metallic Antique Copper from Folk Art gives a nice glowing effect to the ship:
It's not gonna win any awards, but I paint to a tabletop standard--and this ship looks pretty good on the tabletop:
5 comments:
Cool paint job. The rust colour scheme makes the ship look REALLY old, like something that was salvaged after floating, adrift, in an asteroid field for millenia.
Thanks, Sean! I didn't think about conveying a sense of age till you mentioned it, but you're right, it does.
Keep an eye out tomorrow for a step-by-step lesson in painting Entomolians.
I used the "accidentally spill paint" method for some Carnivorian Cruisers, detailed here, and it turned out OK. I am not actually recommending that method! :-)
Thanks, Eastwood. Your pink Panthers came out pretty cool. Unfortunately, the link in your comment didn't come out at all, so I'm reposting it here: http://giantbattlingrobots.blogspot.com/2011/02/pink-panthers-and-few-dropships.html
Oops! thanks for the HTML rescue!
-Dan
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