Thunderhawk Gunship - Part II

 

Na nana na na-na, Thunder(hawk).

While working on the multiple marines I've also been keeping the Thunderhawk nearby for some airbrushing work. This might have at first seemed something straight forward to get done, but actually it subtly trickier. I wanted to use the same basic colours for everything else Blood Angels, but the shading wouldn't quite match due to the scale difference. I've also been leaning towards highlighting panel surfaces rather than edges, so again needed to approach the airbrushing differently there.

The end result is giving edges of panels a darker shade to help outline the general shape of the vehicle, and I'll go back in later to apply either a directed shade, or oil wash and pin shading. I've not yet decided which I'll go with, but I can make the oil wash thinner and much darker, which might suit the scale better. No reason I can't do bother either.

I think so far the airbrushing has turned out well. It will serve as a good base to work from, helping give depth to the model while also presenting an obvious Blood Angels colour scheme. In a stroke of good fortune (for me), the Forgeworld resin 40k Thunderhawk is painted up for the 9th Legion, and so I'm going to essentially copy that colour scheme. On the one hand it's always nice to come up with your own twist, but on the other hand there's enough of a challenge in painting a scaled down version and I don't want to be spending weeks or months figuring out the colours and making no progress.

Weathering will be done on this model. I don't ordinarily do such things, but a Thunderhawk would benefit from a little bit to further sell the impression of a machine of war. Most of the weathering is very likely going to be simple streaks of black on leading edges, which can be drybrushed on easily enough.

-- silly painter.