Diesel DM

Not a lot of progress last night.  Got the Glorious Gold base coat down over the Brassy Brass and that was it.  There will be a lot of touching up to do on the Pig Iron sections I started with.  Something about the size and complexity of this model is causing more errant brush strokes that normal.  I read another blog that mentioned a similar occurrence, so at least it’s not just me.  Because of this phenomenon I’ve decided to base coat everything first, rather than finishing inner sections completely and working my way out.  Once all the bases are done I’ll go back and fix all the messy sections then dive into highlighting and shading.

Glorious Gold basecoat

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Painting has begun on the Stormwall.  Wow, there is a lot of model to cover, even laying down the initial metal base coats is taking a while.  I am a slow painter to begin with, so increasing the surface area this drastically has really taken it’s toll.  Below are a couple shots showing the base coats of Pig Iron and Brassy Brass.  For the guns, cannons and some of the accents I mixed Thamar Black with the Pig Iron to give them a darker base.  The Brassy Brass will be covered with Glorious Gold as I do for all my models.  The Brassy Brass gives excellent coverage and provides a great undercoat for the Glorious Gold.

Pig Iron and Brassy Brass base coats

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Having acquired a Stormwall at Lock & Load, getting it assembled, painted and on the table has been my top Warmachine priority. Unfortunately a week of traveling interrupted early progress, but I’m rolling along now.

Mostly assembled and based

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After pulling a longer than average painting session, Kara Sloan is complete.  I really like how the base turned out, though the pictures fail to capture it fully.  I did several washes of green, browns and reds along different areas that gave it a nice realistic coloring and variation.  I used Army Painter Jungle Tufts for the three small grass sections, they worked like a charm

Finished at last!

From the front you can see I Spitfire, Kara’s rifle.  It came out okay, but I think the steel silvers could have gone darker in the shadows, but I had a hard to time getting them there.

From the back

The back shows the scabbard which I really like the look of, along with more of the base.  After the initial gray base coat I did two highlights of gray/white dry-brushing before I did the colored washes.  After than I hit it with a couple washes of Badab Black to darken the recesses, then dry-brushed lightly again.

And the side

These pictures were taken just before I gloss coated her.  During the gloss coating she tipped over and the top of one of her locks of hair chipped of.  And I was sad.  So once she dries I’ll need to repair that, then return to the matte coat.