To Infinity and ...

For JSA as a newer faction I thought it would be good to have a go at a scheme different to the box art colours. This’s for two reasons. The first is that white and red feels like they could look a bit like nomads, which as I have no local players I want all army’s to be distinct from each other. The second is because it’s fun to try something different and work on new techniques.

I still went with a scheme provided in the recent Uprising expansion book. Yukihyō, Snow Leopard, Pattern looked the least like how I am painting any of the current factions and camouflage is not something I have painted before.

For my test model the technique I used was:

1. airbrush the model white
2. apply masking fluid with a small brush
3. wait for fluid to dry
4. airbrush with goblin green
5. apply more masking fluid to different areas than the first layer
6. wait for fluid to dry
7. airbrush blend of black and goblin green.
8. wait for paint to dry
9. peel off masking fluid

The effect of this worked much better than expected, as I have never worked with masking fluid before.

I had some issues where getting the set mask off was also taking primer off the miniature also. I moved to use a large dry brush (wet) to lift the masking which much reduced this.

Next time I will try to seal the model with a varnish first and see if that removes the issue of taking to much paint off.