Bot War – C.O.I.L.S Vengeance

My favourite of the COILS Bots, Messenger is a pretty average air support warrior with alright firepower and resilience in the game.

As the Bot version of the Attack Jet I used the Jet for reference and painted all of the elements the same.

It didn’t take me long but I was rushed, I’d like to come back and glaze in some better highlights at some point (on the helmet for example) but time is of the essence and this bot needed to be done.

With all of the main units now complete it’s onto the final milestone, the centrepiece, the 110mm tall Conspiracy.

But he’ll have to wait…..

Another Bot gets added to the done pile. Another split painting session today and i decided to take some shots of my Bot painting process.

I generally approach a bot by dabbing on spots of the main colour to the various armour panels I come across. I use this step to familiarise myself with the bot and all of its shapes. The dabbing gives me a good idea of how much armour there is and how much under armour needs to get painted. If it doesn’t look a good balance I choose to make some parts armour, or some parts under-armour, or in some situations split it using blacklining to essentially separate a piece into 2.

Once I’m happy with how much armour there will be I then layer on the basecoat to give a solid colour, then move onto the under armour and do the same.
Next I block in any metallics for rivets and weapons, and then touch up any messed up strokes.

And that’s it, the basecoats are down, I’ve got a good idea how the model is made up so know where I want to highlight, and have 3 main work ups to then progress after applying a shading wash.
I do use a small hairdryer to speed up the drying time for layers and glazes, and for washes I move the paint around to try and prevent pooling before hitting it with the hairdryer.

Anyway, one more Bot to go.

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The Heavy Chopper is an absolute beast of a helicopter. Extremely well shielded and packing decent firepower, the vehicle form of Shogun has the ability to transport either Darkstate/Vyper, Deepstate/ABT, or a large infantry platoon to wherever its needed on the battlefield.

Shogun is a massive bot and the “Chopper” is equally massive.

Super early paint today, managed to get a couple of hours in whilst watching some hobby chat show on YouTube that gets released every week, you should check it out…… Anyway, painted up Raven who is the Bot form of Nightbird. It’s a cool sculpt but is let down by it’s pose, it’s looking down as if dropping in from above, but has its foot on a rock which just looks weird to me, even if landing I’d expect it’s head to be tilted up and not looking down.

Also the gun barrel has warped, this was originally fixed by heat treatment but has gone back to being bent over time, a bit annoying but it’s what it is and these aren’t in anyway going near a competition so…..

Anyway, I decided to grab some in progress shots of the general COILS Vengeance painting process as it’s been a while since I posted a more in depth update.

The following shots show off the different colours being applied, and whilst it doesnt go into too much detail about the final steps as this is pretty fluid and changes for each model, it’s the basic process that every miniature I’m painting is following. Enjoy….

A 2 session paint today, sneaking in 30 minutes on my lunchbreak to get this high flyer started with some simple blocking in of basecoats and then washing the hull and the base with P3 Armour Shade.

The part 2 was kicked off this evening with an hour to go through and add some simple highlights and secondary colours to bring it to life.

Again not the best finish, but for under 2 hours and a split session I happy to send this bird into the done tray.

A quick paint tonight of Slaughter, the Bot form of the ABM painted yesterday.

Its nice to have another Bot/Vehicle pair painted.

Tomorrow and for the next few days I should be able to start on the heavy aerial contingent.