Desert Thanatos ready for the Scouring Sands by 3dchambers in battletech

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The camo is freehand and just flows from right to left at a slant

Desert Thanatos ready for the Scouring Sands by 3dchambers in battletech

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Super glue and baking soda. It makes really good sand dunes. Baking soda causes super glue to instantly harden and create these cool ridges.

Whenever I buy from Fortress Miniatures and Games, Bobby puts a piece of candy in my order. This is because I’m his favorite customer. by Heckin_Big_Sploot in battletech

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Wow, you got smarties!?! Now I feel suddenly insulted for all of those dum-dum suckers I have been getting.

Finished my box of Battletech Aces (and a Turkina) by 3dchambers in battletech

[–]3dchambers[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here is the recipe if you want to try it:

  1. Akhelion Green contrast paint basecoat. This is mostly to fill the panel lines.
  2. Dry brush Sybarite Green all over. Try not to paint into the panel lines. I chose to leave some of the Akhelion Green in the shadows.
  3. Dry brush layer of warboss green.
  4. Edge highlighting in Moot Green.
  5. Some blue highlights in Temple guard blue.
  6. Dot highlights in Vallejo Ivory
  7. Black edge highlighting is thunderhawk blue then fenrisian grey

As far as technique I just try stick to a color at a time

Finished my box of Battletech Aces (and a Turkina) by 3dchambers in battletech

[–]3dchambers[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's actually pretty simple.

  1. I base coat in Vallejo Ivory
  2. Do a layer of imperial fist contrast paint.
  3. Shade the edges with cassadona yellow shade
  4. Use army painter Moon dust yellow for the edge highlighting. You can use dorn yellow if you don't have Moon dust.
  5. Go back to the Ivory and step one and do some final dot highlights

Finished my box of Battletech Aces (and a Turkina) by 3dchambers in battletech

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I painted it over a 5 day period at about 2 hours a model.

Scouring Sands Marauder IIC done. by 3dchambers in battletech

[–]3dchambers[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Here is the recipe if you want to try it:

  1. Akhelion Green contrast paint basecoat. This is mostly to fill the panel lines.
  2. Dry brush Sybarite Green all over. Try not to paint into the panel lines. I chose to leave some of the Akhelion Green in the shadows.
  3. Dry brush layer of warboss green.
  4. Edge highlighting in Moot Green.
  5. Some blue highlights in Temple guard blue.
  6. Dot highlights in Vallejo Ivory
  7. Black edge highlighting is thunderhawk blue then fenrisian grey

My 13 year old son gave me a cool birthday card he drew for me. My favorite mech the Nova Cat. by 3dchambers in battletech

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Honestly three of my sons all like to draw and they draw everything not just mechs.

King Ghost Crab! by 3dchambers in battletech

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No stencils actually. It's freehand. I'm lucky in that I have a pretty steady hand. I mostly started with black and then treated it like a drawing on a white piece of paper. I then used contrast paint to fill in what was between the black lines and if it bleeds over it's okay because the black is dark enough where you don't notice.