Well, with my time off thanks to the East Coast Blizzard (At LEAST 2', probably closer to 3' give or take with the drifting), I had some time to do some painting. So, my first attempt, and I've literally only got two colors: Black and Red (ok 3- I've got a white paint marker too). I've got a few better brushes since I started on these, so I have some hope!

I filled in some other colors with the sharpies. I do dig the change in medium, but it's still a trick to deal with getting the viscosity of the paints right. Too thin and it wanders where you don't want it, too thick and it looks like you're painting with lipstick. The Defenders were a simple hit with matte black spraypaint and the Lancer was a satin sand color hit with 2 or 3 washes prior to painting to allow sharpie to stick.

Some more final shots... these are post clear coat. Like, still wet from being applied . Anyways, the Firespray was from an old batch, so that's straight up sharpie, but I forgot to wash and clear coat it. Everything else was recent. The Phantoms are lazy (flat black with random speckles of white), and the shuttle was so easy for how nice it turned out. The Decimator needs something I think, but I'm not upset with the results. As soon as the bases dry up, I'll take some more finished shots.

How do you paint your bases?

On ‎3‎/‎20‎/‎2017 at 11:19 AM, player2426063 said:

How do you paint your bases?

Like this. Bases are flat black spray paint from your local hardware superstores ok'd for plastics. I color the edges of my cardboard too with sharpies.

7 hours ago, Stasy said:

Like this. Bases are flat black spray paint from your local hardware superstores ok'd for plastics. I color the edges of my cardboard too with sharpies.

Do you paint them fully assembled or do you the parts separately?

Looking sharp, although I do dislike the perpetuated defender 2 blue 4 green joke (it might have been amusing the first time, but gads it is an eyesore).

14 minutes ago, Darthain said:

Looking sharp, although I do dislike the perpetuated defender 2 blue 4 green joke (it might have been amusing the first time, but gads it is an eyesore).

I'll do you a solid... last set of Defenders will be all green.

19 minutes ago, player2426063 said:

Do you paint them fully assembled or do you the parts separately?

I paint them on hollow Q-Tip stems one at a time in a production line method for the group of 3. In this case, I used a flat black as the base, then filled in the red parts, then touched up any messed up black panels. Finished off by putting some white on the tips for guns and using sharpie to color once dried. Then they get a nuln oil wash, and then sealed with matte clearcoat.

Yours look a helluva lot better than mine. Nice work!

Finally got to doing some more work... randomly mid paint jobs.

My kitchen table is a cluster. Ugh.

Digging the blue-black scheme.

25 minutes ago, Darthain said:

Digging the blue-black scheme.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if I would, but it's growing on me. I have a red group and the standard grey one, and I wanted to be a bit different, given my limited colors.