Bot War – Painting Challenge 2023

Today I finished working up the yellow parts to a smooth scalecolor Hykey finish (it could be smoother but hey ho). I then highlighted the treads on all the tyres with scalecolor Rainy Grey so that they stand out, then washed all of the tyres to shade the recesses with P3 Armor Wash.

Tanks are about 80% done now, just weapons and the edge highlights to go which I will start on the morrow.

Made an effort to get the edge highlighting done tonight. This was a PITA but I persevered.

The colour used was Scale75 fantasy&games Surfer Orc Flesh which works quite well as a light turquoise. My edges could have been neater but I needed to get them done.

I also started on the metals which were basecoated with scale75 emerald alchemy. This is a light green tinted metallic which is a bit of an oceanic vibe so works well for the fishy men.

There were also a couple of yellow details I missed so these were basecoated in vallejo extra opaque heavy gold brown.

Last day on these tanks (except for their bases).

Finished applying the emerald alchemy to the remaining tanks to get them all to the same point. Then washed all of the metals with a mix of P3 Armour wash with a little P3 Turquoise ink. The details weapons were then picked out in either the yellow workup, or were painted white before getting a scalecolor magenta colouring.

The main hulls were then glazed over one last time with the citadel contrast mix I airbrushed on to soften the edge highlights a bit.

All that’s left now is to finish the bases, I gave them a quick coat of brown tonight so it can dry off overnight as it takes a few coats to get the effect I want. I will cover that off tomorrow though.

Begun painting the Airforce yellow details and blocked in some of the metal details with Citadel’s Abaddon Black

Finished up the yellow of the canopies and engine details.

Also painted in the metallic deatiks like the weapons. These were done using the scale75 emerald alchemy, then washed with P3 armour ink and a little P3 turquoise before getting a finishing layer of emerald again.

Edge highlights is pretty much all that’s left to go

…. Also, it was the Beachhead convention in Bournemouth this weekend so managed to pick up a few bits for some future projects.

After an extremely busy day of cooking for the Superbowl I managed to still get in my daily paint quota, only the minimum though, and took out the airbrush to make a proper start on all of the Atlantican bases (except for the infantry).

This is a simple airbrush 2 pass covering of an earthy mix I’ve been using for all of my bots in the form of scale75 Gobi Brown mixed in equal parts with Citadel Baneblade Brown, which is then thinned slightly with airbrush thinner and flow improver.

After a horrendously busy weekend, I’ve been suffering with a thumping headache all day, so unfortunately all I could muster was a short sitting to finish up the bases.

These were drybrushed with Citadel Ash Waste, then Citadel Dry longbeard grey. Shadows added with Army Painter strong tone and black tone. And the main rocks given some interest colour from aggrax earth shade and druchi darkness.

Rims were then given 2 brushed coats of my brown mix to finish then off.

Finishing touches were the aim of the game today after the weekend not resulting in much progress.

Edge highlights were applied to the airforce units with scale75 surfer orc, which as before was then glazed back with the contrast paints to soften it. Flight stands were blacked out with Blackest Black 3.0 and attached to the bases.

Finally little magenta spots were added to the tips of the missiles with scale75 astral magenta.

14 days in and 14 models done. Still got a long way to go in the next 2 weeks and back half of the challenge.