Imperial Thunderbolt - Part IV

 

The pilot is seeing red.

These models are taking ages to paint. This is purely because of lack of time: work, a cold, a few other things getting in the way. So this is yet another short post, but an update anyway to show that even with short time, progress, however slow, is being made.

The canopy was was a little bit of fun. I tried to make it seem brighter towards the front, but didn't want reflective dots like with eye lenses in helmets. Just didn't seem like it would fit: such a bright reflection point would be lost in the size of a canopy, and instead be generally a more bright area. Perhaps didn't push the brightness far enough, but the darker tone suits the workhorse nature of the Thunderbolts anyway.

• Gal Vorbak Red over the canopy.
• Wazdakka Red layered and blended to the front. At the very front I also added some cream tone to the mix, making it very bright to the front. This is pulled back later.
• Abaddon Black thinned towards the rear of the canopy.
• Blood Angels Red (Contrast) glazed over the canopy to tie everything together and give a more saturated red.

The frame of the canopy was the usual Eshin Grey, Dawnstone, and whichever black on the palette - basically the same as I do for black armour on Space Marines.

A little Fenrisian Grey for a few edge highlights on top, and as the basic missile colour underneath. I tried not to overdo it, and in fact it probably didn't need any edge highlighting at all. I stopped short of going around panels - it just doesn't fit the feel of the model to do that.

Thunderhawk Blue for trim highlights, with Coelia Greenshade in recesses rounds off the highlighting. 

Getting very close to the metallics stage now, and weathering, but still a few smaller details I'd like to take care of. One example is the missile colourings: after a little research, it seems that yellow stripes around the head indicate high explosives (the warhead), with brown for low explosives (the rocket). Black for the fins, because why not.

Pretty much want to rush though and finish these models, but likely won't have them done by my intended target date. So it'll be another slightly late post again, hopefully with them finished by that time.

-- silly painter.