Bot War - the war wages on (clearing the backlog)

With the bulk of the Deceivers all built I gave them all an airbrushed primer layer of Grey from Stynelrez. I am hoping that this will give a nice neutral base that I can easily lighten and darken as necessary. It was also an excuse to use up some of the bottle that I’ve had laying around for a couple of years as I’ve found the shelf life isn’t that great with it so I want to get rid of it if I can.

Browsing through the rules in the Deceivers Faction Guide I noted that there were no longer character profiles for all of the Dissenter models (that come in the Terrors of the Air set), so I took the opportunity to throw down a classically inspired paint job onto 3 of the models. If you’re aware of a Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s you may some similarity to Skywarp, Thundercracker and Starscream, but with some artistic interpretation to accommodate the additional details. It was whilst painting these models that I came across loads of mouldings I’d missed in the black resin (I’m really not a fan of coloured resin) but TBH these are only for the tabletop so I’m not too bothered.

You can see some WIP photos below of how they are progressing.

For Destructor I again went with a classic colour scheme, to me this model (which is itself a resculpt of a 1st edition Bot war miniature) has a lot of inspiration from the character Blitzwing.  A Deceiver Tyrant in the making I wanted to give lots of focus on the energy sword, so have gone with very saturated magenta colours which match the Energy cubes I’ve been using in my games.  This spot colour will be seen throughout the Deceiver faction as it will provide good contrast to the main scheme I plan to use in the more original Deceiver sculpts….

… And because I like to have a few models on the go at once, I also started on the main bad guy for the Deceivers Narcitron. He is a big 60mm bot (to the tip of his wings) and is a great sculpt. Staying close to his original artwork u noticed that there were some similarities to my Deceiver Beastlord colour scheme of turquoise grey and purple, so I increased the saturation and hue to really bring it inline with my original Deceiver scheme from a few years back. Seeing if this scheme could translate onto other bots i took the opportunity to work on Ravenous as well. I’m still refining the colour choices but you can see WIP photos below of how these are coming along. The use of the magenta for energy really makes them pop so that is something I will continue to use.