Hobby exploits 2020 and onward

And the last of the CA models painted in this series. Technic doesn’t change, but since this is general Infinity model and not necessarily a Defiance one, he needed different base, as per usual that meant mass production (especially with new Morats lurking from behind a corner).

He’s part of the bunch described in previous post but project system didn’t let him in together with his pals.

Together with my Charontid I also pushed three Shasvastis. I didn’t care much about them (they are just pawns), but on top of that, when I finished and tried to attach them to final bases, something went wrong. I had to handle them much more than I’m used to, and thus scrubbed off some paint on many edges, and also on larger surfaces. I tried to repair that, but my success is questionable at best. Maybe I’ll repaint them entarily some time in the future.

That was a long silence… what can I say… life, at least I finished my university course (and haven’t started new one yet).

Anyway, my typical Combined approach: black and white oils on the armour and Giraldez’s set of washes/glazes on the body (?)

After painting bunch of PanO and generally humans I’m switching back to CA, to make that switch even smoother I started with Aida Swanson from Defiance set. She has one the coolest stories in whole universe, and to illustrate her dubious allegiance I made her base by blending a normal base I have for my heroes and shasvasti base.

And finally some more shasvasti bases that I’ve printed. I painted them with oils paints, chromatic black achieved from mixing all three primary colours, it gives very fun effects while highlighted with white, because each stroke of white may pull different tone to the surface. And of course I haven’t painted all the rims yet.

Another mini that was acting as test dummy for quite some time, I thing I printed him out last year with the rest of Yakuza from Unit 9.

Anyway, I was practicing red on him, with acrylics. Base colour was scarlet red (VGC), then lights with Pure Red (AP) and finally Scarlet Fluo (VRC) – this is what gives it that reflective feel. But true power of this mix is in shadows, those were done with glazes of magenta and phtalo blue inks with a touch of black (without black shadows will be too saturated and will look like shining).

Rest of the mini was of less interest for me, so it probably looks rushed, especially since the model has very plain face.