DRACONIS DOES….. TERRAINFEST 2025

3rd December 2025

Limited hobby time again due to work and decorating (not Christmas).

As such I added a variety of smaller elements where time would permit.

I painted lights on some of the side panels and on the roof. Red for port, green for starboard. For the roof lights I added lighter areas in two places on each light, then added a white dot in the middle of those, and gloss varnish. They don’t stand up to close scrutiny, but work well from play distance.

I also picked out some repeated larger side panels in a slightly lighter grey (perhaps too close to hull colour), added a white stripe at the far side, a red gundam sticker next to that, three black elements at the bottom, then panel lined them so they would stand out a bit. I also added a ship logo to each side of the cockpit. Printed out and glued on. The grey doesn’t quite match, so I will need to try to blend it in later, perhaps via the weathering stage.

While I had the gundam stickers out I also added several to the cargo bay doors, and a couple to each of the more square blue side panels.

For the cargo bay there are hazard markers in the sculpt. So I masked these off, stippled on some yellow ochre, then picked out alternate segments in black. Works pretty well I feel.

For the airlock door, I initially had it in the grey, with a blue panel. But that was pretty dull. I repainted it white, and painted the panels in a blue to black graduation, to try to represent some sort of glass or Perspex material. The whole door then had a couple of coats of gloss varnish.