Bot War Painting Challenge 2020

Today I started to block in base coats for the windows and metal work.

I also painted the tyres using Secret Weapon Tyre Black and Rubber paints. I love these colours as the blue tone really helps to make them stand out against the green whereas a blacker colour tyre would just get lost I think.

More blocking in base coat colours.

I also decided to add some weathering to the bucket that would be on the back of Destroyer. This was achieved by layering up streaks of Secret Weapon Sewer Water and Army Painter soft tone. I would like to have applied this to more of the model but I was happy with how bright everything was looking that I decided to limit the dirtyness to just this one piece. Maybe at some point i may come back and weather the whole thing.

Painted in the windows and the visor using my magenta workup.

Also began to work in some of the P3 Noctite Green ahead of a big push tomorrow

Long day of painting today, glazing on layers of the P3 Noctite Green using  vallejo model black for black lining and p3 Wurm green to tidy and control the brightness of the Noctite.

Today consisted of edge highlighting.

Lots of edge highlighting

All of the purple, most of the grey, starting on the green.

Too much in fact, so I’m leaving this update short. There’s a lot to do and it was all accomplished using the same workups I have used on the previous bots.

7 bots were required for the painting challenge as a minimum, and whilst I never like to do the lowest bar I feel I made up for it by painting Destroyer which technically is 5 bots in one, so to finish off the requirement I went with the smallest bot I own which also happens to be inspired by my online avatar, Rumble.

For Faultline I wanted him to be a purple bot (like Rumble) but not the same purple as I used on the other bots, he should be more lilac and purple than indigo and purple.   To achieve this I first primed the little guy black, then a top down coat of white. Due to his small size I sued Badger Stynelrez primers which are self levelling and give a solid undercoat to work with.  Next, for the first base coat I simple Airbrushed Secret Weapon Purple wash over the whole model, letting the pre-shaded undercoat do its work and starting off my highlights.

1. The next stage was to blackline all the crevasses with vallejo model back to make the joints pop, then all purple surfaces were given a coat of Scale75 Psychedelic Purple (which actually reacts under UV). The edges were then highlighted with Reaper Sorcerous Mist before all purple panels getting a thin coat of Secret Weapon purple wash diluted with citadel lahmian medium to smooth out the highlights.

The grey portions used my standard workup of Vallejo Game colour extra opaque heavy grey, which was the. Edge highlighted with Reaper Arctic Fog.

The drill arms were first based in vallejo Game color extra opaque heavy sienna, then highlighted on the edge of the drills with Reaper Arctic Fog and then washed with secret weapon Sewer Water.

For the visor I wanted something different to the other builders’ magenta, so went with a base of Extra Opaque Heavy Orange, then a highlight of Reaper Candlelight Yellow