Bot War – C.O.I.L.S Vengeance

Thank you so much for following this project and feeling it worthy of a Golden Button. I hope people found it interesting to follow and enjoyed the end result.

There is definitely more Bot War to come in the future that’s for sure.

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That’s a wrap folks.

Using a pass day as I’ve nothing to paint, instead I lined up all of my minis painted over the last 28 days for a little photo shoot.

45 minis painted, not my best, but certainly something I’m quite proud of.

All of my past Bot War painting challenges are up here as well as projects, they sort of go hand in hand for me so if you like what you’ve seen go check them out and if you like the look of Bot War go check out https://tradersgalaxy.com.au/product-category/bot-war/

Bring on next year!

This is it, the end is in sight, and as the final day approaches I have finished up Conspiracy by adding in the spot colours with a mixture of Scale75 Inks over the white basecoat, and highlighted the Steel metallic areas with some silver from the Darkstar Molten Metals range.

I re-rimmed the edge of the base with my brown mix, and glued the head back in.

And that is it.

Its done.

45 models in 28 days, quite happy with that.

Tomorrow I will use my first “free pass” (you get 2) to forgo any painting, and instead will take some proper photos of the finished force.

For now though, enjoy some finished shots of Conspiracy

Lots of highlighting tonight, lots and lots of highlighting.

Progress is being made though and the end is very much in sight.

I also blocked in the areas for spot colours with some Monument Hobbies Pro-acryl titanium white as the base for the inks to go onto tomorrow.

Still cracking on with Conspiracy, tonight I added the blacklining around panels, layered on the grey under armour and gave it some highlights, and started the tidy up.

Still to do…
– highlight metallics
– pinnacle highlights
– basecoat spot colours
– apply inks
– re-rim the base

Looking at what time I have left i won’t be able to get the infantry built and painted as well as finishing the big Bot, which is a shame, but getting the 2nd fortress painted did eat into some time and they weren’t in my original model list for the challenge so I’m not beating myself up over it.

Still very much a work in progress, I was able to get the Anthracite basecoat down to finish off the main primer cover up.

Once dry I used P3 Armour Wash to give everything a shade of dark blue grey. I tried to move this around once aploed to stop it pooling, using a dry brush to absorb any pools, and a wet brush to help smooth it out and push into recesses.

After this was dry I added some Vallejo mecha blue grey to Anthracite and the nned it out into a glaze. This was then applied to all armour pieces, pushing the glaze to create lighter areas, stippling it on to create interest on flat edges, and using it to create some contrast.

This was then glazed back again with pure Anthracite to soften the look.

Its coming along, slowly, and I have much more still to do…..

• Re-layer the grey under amour
• Re-layer base rim
• Highlight under-armour
• Highlight main armour
• Highlight metals
• Pinacle edge highlights
• Black line panels and recesses
• Block in spot colours with white
• Appy magenta and turquoise inks to spot areas

4 days to get that lot done

Into the really ugly phase for Conspiracy.

Given the size of the model I only managed to get the grey under amour and metallic basecoats painted. I would usually start with the main armour colour on a Bot but with the sheer size of this thing I wanted to start with the innermost points first. I am also using a larger brush than normal to make it faster to apply the layers so there is more chance of clipping other parts on my strokes (as can be seen), so having the armour paint go on last means I can be much neater and tidy up all those little mistakes.

Tomorrow will be the first time all month where I don’t have other “life stuff” going on, so I’m hoping to take full advantage of it, stick a few films on, and really push conspiracy forward.

For all those challengers that remain, the end is in site, just a few more days!

Final week and the big Bot comes out to play.

I’ve had this model built since it was released over 2 years ago, but it remained in a basic primed state sat on my shelf staring at me ever since, so what better way to wrap up this COILS force than by getting this titan painted up.

I think I’ve given myself plenty of time to get him painted up, and this was what my schedule was aiming for. I forgo some pass days that I thought I’d need to take, and by getting Chopper and Attack Jet done on the same day has allowed me some breathing space.

Anyway, I have started off by painting up the base, getting down several layers of brown, drybrushing on some highlights. Painting the rocks with a blue grey before glazing in some purples and greens. Everything was then washed with P3 Armour Wash, and then some further highlights were wet blended in.

This will now all dry overnight and set me up for the weekends painting.