Diesel DM

Progress continues on the colossal.  It feels like the end is within sight, just gotta keep working away at it.

Silver metals and blues complete

The highlighting of the blues on the top of the Stormwall have been remarkably challenging. The initial shading up through Cygnar Blue Highlight looked great, then came Frostbite.  Frostbite is a very light blue that the FoW:Cygnar book recommends as the final highlight mixed with CBH.  The problem with Frostbite is that 2-brush-blending it always comes out chalky for me.  I’ve tried flow improver and the like with no improvements.  It was really bad this time around.  So much so that I painted over it with Cygnar Blue Base and started again.  For whatever reason the areas I had highlighted were no longer smooth, they had a bit of texture, almost as if the chalkiness had transcended into physical texture.  I happened to hear on Guts-n-Gears podcasts that mixing CBH and Menoth White Highlight also makes a good highlight color, so I tried that.  It seemed much less chalky, but with the new underlying texture I somehow created it’s still tough to get a good blend.  So I’ve left it as is and decided to move on.  I was aiming for table-top quality, which I think I’ve met with this blend, but it still bothers me.

Beyond the blues, I finished up the silver metals and have started on the lighting coils and storm chambers.  I should have left the storm chambers off, for the record.  Wow, what a pain to get to.  The six coils on the top aren’t bad to get to while attached though.

Next target is to finish up the golds.  I’ve got the base coats down, need to shade and highlight with my standard theme.  Then it’s on to the whites.  And I have those pieces I haven’t attached (feet plates and hip plates).  Then some basing and done.