Assault Intercessor with Jump Pack - Part II

 

Not sure any pistol should be doing that.

It's been a while since my last post, and while I've trying to be doing anything hobby related, the reality is that I've been very busy and haven't done that much. I've not really touched the next Dreadnought, there's a fair bit waiting for airbrushing, and I have another particular model that has all of a foot done. So with everything going so slow, I've taken a kind of break and have been very (very) slowly assembling more of the Assault Intercessor troops.

The first test model doesn't have too much additional done: some colours blocked in, a couple of decals applied, and glued to a base. What is more interesting however is the plasma pistol, which I took some inspiration from Angel Giraldez for. I don't really recall the actual paints used, but that's relatively unimportant: just use reds, oranges, yellows, mix in white. I was looking at the model and noticed that the red overspray gave an interesting look to the pistol, almost like it was slightly glowing, and I recalled a painting of Mephiston that Giraldez had done. I also have recently been thinking of OSL effects, and it occurred to me that instead of painting this pistol in the "normal" way, I would try a little OSL and punch it some more by keeping the rest of the pistol very dark in comparison (no metallics). This works really well in the end, but the trick was to use Corvus Black to build up from (or layer down to), which gives a coal black that's a little more flexible with the lighting. At any rate, I'm happy with the result.

The base is nothing special, but actually I painted eleven of them in a batch, all magnetised, and waiting on other models. This particular model is missing a gun holster, and actually after gluing one to another model I've decided to paint them all separately and glue them later. It just makes getting at the armour panels and undersuit ribbing that much easier. I'm also painting all of the helmets in a line, and they're nearly ready now. With the jump packs already given initial airbrushing and shading, that really only leaves the bodies to be done.

The main bodies I very likely will still not batch paint in one go. I'll limit it to two or three at a time, if for no other reason than it keeps the airbrushing sessions shorter and more manageable with the free time I have. Assembly though, that I've been doing on occasion as a kind of chillout exercise: assembling models without any rush, small details one at a time, means that I'm still getting something done and can keep at it whenever I have a few spare minutes. Kind of like painting with only one paint over the course of two or three days, it's sometimes much easier to keep a small set of tools handy over multiple days, rather than a small number of models that need a large amount of tools and paints.

I will probably keep going like this for another week, maybe with some painting of the Furioso when I get to the right paints, but keeping things moving at a slow and steady pace.

-- silly painter.