Painting Jump Packs

The first finished Death Company model.

Writing has been done on various areas (e.g the right pauldron) which required a very small brush and wash-consistency paint. The writing is not dark - I used Rhinox Hide (base) instead of black, but it could probably do with two coats. Watering the paint down I find easier for writing words, with the tradeoff being that it's very light when it dries. Might do a second coat, or just use black next time.


The jump pack exhaust area was originally going to be quite a plain, stock standard, metallic appearance. Deciding that this was too boring, I contemplated some kind of scorched effect surrounding it, but in the end went with the glow of idle thruster exhausts. Blue was the choice of base colour for this, simply because I thought it would look better than red/orange/yellow, and offset the large amount of red already on the model (the weapons, purity seals, and gems).

The exhaust glow was painted in the following manner:

• Kantor Blue (base) around the entire exhaust area.
• Alaitoc Blue (layer) as a "thick" highlight around the nozzles.
• Teclis Blue (layer) highlight, thinner than the previous layer, and leaving some of it showing.
• Lothern Blue (layer) highlight, again slightly thinner along the edges. It was given some more emphasis in the middle.
• Ulthuan Grey (layer) fine edge highlight, and "core" area of the nozzles.
• White Scar (layer) very fine edge highlight, just to really make the edges shine. It was also watered down for the "core" areas as well.

Quite a pleasing effect overall, although the final white highlight could have been thinner. Note that while quite a few blue paints were used, this is mostly for convenience - the same could just as easily have been achieved with mixing white into the base blue, and building up the layers with more white added each time.

-- silly painter