What's On My Workbench? - October 7th 2015

I caught a mouse sneaking into my house the other day.

Part one in an occasional series, I hope. Often I work on more than one project at a time, which means finished model posts can get a bit few and far between. Also, by the time I write about a finished model, I've probably forgotten anything interesting about the painting process.

So, let's break it down!

It just peered at me then wandered off, right past me.

This is my fourth batch of Age of Sigmar shiny armour guys now, so I'm getting pretty comfortable with the process. Here I've airbrushed the gold basecoat, and washed them with a skin ink - matte medium - water combo. They look very reddish at this stage,  but that's good, because a lot of that tint will be lost in the drybrushing that follows.

It didn't look afraid. If anything it seemed embarrassed about the whole thing.

I've started painting up the models from the Infinity: Operation Icestorm starter set. I figure if I paint them in the order they're required for the included missions, I'll be more likely to actually play the dang thing.

These are the basic troops for Panoceania, also known as "the blue faction". They are known for being every so high-tech, and extremely blue.

I'm using Angel Giraldez's (the studio painter for Infinity) recipes, in an attempt to learn something. Specifically he makes very heavy use of his airbrush, so this will force me to learn some precision.

In this case I'm reasonably happy with some of my airbrush work. As always happens when I use non-airbrush paints, I had a lot of clogging, sputtering, etc. So what should have been some quite fine, nicely placed highlights spattered over a bit and left things looking a bit bleached out. I'll just have to glaze the colour back in with judicious use of regular brushes.

Frankly I was impressed with its sangfroid, but I'd still rather it hadn't chosen my house to hang about in.

The other forces from the set. This faction is red, and is called Nomads, and are individualist space anarchists, or something.

I used airbrush paints for these and the results are better. The softer lines of the armour demand less in terms of precise highlights, though, so the good work on these is less evident than the bad work on the previous ones!

Now... back to work.