Step 1: Base in black

Step 2: Drybrushing is pretty easy and effective if done right

With a soft flat brush start drybrushing using circular motion with a dark color (GW Stegadon Scale Green in this case) drybrush a larger area roughly around where you want your highlights.

Step 3: Keep drybrushing smaller areas, focusing on where you want your highlights to be

GW Stegadon Scale Green + Sotek Green

Step 4: Drybrush in a smaller area still

GW Sotek Green

Step 5: Getting there

Added a bit of Vallejo Deep Sky Blue into the Sotek green and drybrushed an even smaller area

Step 6: Get frustrated with the paintjob not being exactly what you thought you wanted...

Step 7: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Step 8: Spray everything again, grab Chaos Black, Mechanicus Standard Gray, Ceramite White and start over, doing the same layer on each of the 6 vultures, then move onto lighter and lighter color

Step 9: Enter a "This time it better ****** work out!" trance

Step 10: Forget to take progress pictures

Step 11: ???

Step 12: PROFIT

And that folks, is how I paint all of my ships. Even the ones where I have tested a paint scheme by making a photoshop edit of a movie still of the product pics from FFG to test different color schemes.

Does anyone else have this problem? You start with a good idea going in, scrap it half-way through, re-do everything again and then finally end up with something after taking about three times as much as it would have taken to finish the first thing you started with?

Your results, sir, speak for themselves. And the insight into your process is fascinating, heartening, and equally heartbreaking. But yes, I have one ship at least that is on its third set of layers. And I'm still not satisfied. But you. You keep doing what you're doing. It may be frustrating to you, but it clearly works.

Thanks for that! I genuinely laughed out loud. 😅

There's a lot of great painting work out on the internet, but too much of it makes it seem like it got spit out perfectly on the first try. There's not enough of it shows the mistakes. The failed experiments. The lessons, the missteps, the color schemes that didn't work out, the ones you had to re-do, or the ones that didn’t make the cut (that you left out of the photo shoot).

Bravo for showing that sometimes you have to get it wrong first, in order to get it right.

Beautiful work! The end result is awesome.

Steps 6 and 7 are my favourites. Oh, I know that feel bro.