Terminator Squad - Part II

 

Shiny in red.

This won't be a long post, and mostly some commentary about how went a white zenithal to help highlighting. The short version is: it didn't help much.

The idea wasn't so much to have the white undercoat show through, but instead to help guide where to place shadows and highlights without having to change my process too much. In that regard it kind of worked - before varnishing to lock down the paints it did have more visible shaded areas than I have been getting, but the difference wasn't significant. I'll wait to see how they end up, but I suspect that for the next squad I'll try Averland Sunset and Blood Angels Red like with the Dreadnought. 

It is worth noting that there has been no edge highlighting done on any of the squad yet. I'm going to leave that to just before (and maybe a little bit after) the next varnish step. This will definitely help make the model more readable, and might trick the eye into seeing more shading than there really is.

I definitely think something needs to change on how I use the airbrush for painting up squads: I could just leave it and be happy enough, but I do want that little more "pop" out of volumes and I'm out of ideas that don't change the paints being used. The trick will be to keep everything looking cohesive as an army. I guess future experimentation will tell.

The bases I'm not sure will turn out as I really wanted, but as an experiment that's acceptable. I just wanted Terminators to look more comparable to the new sculpts (whenever I get those) but the height on the bases really does stick out. I'm hoping that painting it all relatively flat will reduce that effect. On a note about the bases, I was uncomfortable with the pressure on them given by the painting handles. Instead I epoxy glued a washer to a 32mm base, and just use magnets on the 40mm to hold it in place. The model is still firmly held in place and I've no need to try any other painting handles. Plus I now have an abundance of washers that I'll need to find a use for.

-- silly painter.