Just finished off my Liberty MC80. Wanted it to look very alien and kind of menacing. Was partly inspired by @Vykes ' Liberty posted here , also took some very useful tips from their post

Still got to give it some matt varnish, and letting the engines dry before I can finish them off, but it's basically finished...

edit: updated pics here

7 minutes ago, Arctitian said:

Just finished off my Liberty MC80. Wanted it to look very alien and kind of menacing. Was partly inspired by @Vykes ' Liberty posted here , also took some very useful tips from their post

Still got to give it some matt varnish, and letting the engines dry before I can finish them off, but it's basically finished...

That is nice! Liberties are probably my favorite ship to paint!

The only suggestion I could give, is to maybe highlight the leading edge with a slightly lighter purple/grey. (Though it may just be the lighting for the pictures.) You have such cool color variation in the green lighting, it almost makes the hull look 2 dimensional.

Not intending to belittle your efforts. If anything, you knocked it out of the park on the green lighting effects!

@cynanbloodbane Thanks that's a good idea! Just to clarify, are you thinking more around the nose section, or all along the front wing edges? Thinking about it, a fairly bright purple / pink 'halo' along the front edges of the ship could bring some really nice contrast to the green potentially.

I kind of had to do all the purple highlighting first, due to the green 'glow' effect being thrown across the 'surface'... so I kind of had to judge in advance how the overall effect would look when dry-brushing and washing with green... I was thinking of possibly bringing back some of the purple highlights on the hull, maybe washed quite thin so as not to contrast the green too much.

Some of my blue cr90 corvette

And the rest...

Okay I went back and touched up the purple to bring some of it back and highlighted the leading edges of the wings/nose as per @cynanbloodbane 's suggestion. I think it's a lot better now Kind of subtle, but if you compare to the previous photos you can really see a difference. I didn't want to go too far the other direction either!

edit: adding some more photos

8 minutes ago, Arctitian said:

Okay I went back and touched up the purple to bring some of it back and highlighted the leading edges of the wings/nose as per @cynanbloodbane 's suggestion. I think it's a lot better now Kind of subtle, but if you compare to the previous photos you can really see a difference. I didn't want to go too far the other direction either!

That was exactly what I was thinking looking at your first pictures!

I really think you nailed it without trying to do too much.

Very nice paint job!

On 8/22/2018 at 5:51 AM, cynanbloodbane said:

That was exactly what I was thinking looking at your first pictures! 

I really think you nailed it without trying to do too much.

Very nice paint job!

@cynanbloodbane Thank you very much, and thank you for the original constructive feedback It helps to get another perspective because, after staring at your own work for so long, it eventually gets difficult to objectively assess and judge when it's 'done' and whether it's met your mental image of what you were going for. It also helps to have a little push in the right direction, because when you eventually tell yourself 'it's done' sometimes you misjudge and it's worth doing a little more...

I'm very happy with how it turned out and I'm glad you agree!

Some new stuff

Assault Frigate

(edit: tried weathering for the first time and it's fun, and gives the ship a lot more character. Wanted it to look like the front armour was a newer replacement)

Transports

pretty colours...

Round Dial (just got this yay!)

and before rubbing the paint off (with the short edge of an acrylic range ruler):

Where did you get the round dial?

7 hours ago, Cap116 said:

Where did you get the round dial? 

It was part of an official kit ( 2017 Quarter 2 Tournament Kit, apparently ) that my local store used to run a league. Must have been lying around for a while...