The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Heavy metal

A bit more progress has been made on this thing!

In my endeavors to try and break up the solid colors, I have been picking out the parts that I thought might be more metallic - namely the hydraulics, a little bit of the joints, and the claw - and going over them with boltgun again, followed by a bit of Vallejo smoke ink to knock down the ridiculous brightness of Boltgun.

Afterwards, I tried a new trick - I have drab colored pastels that are surely not intended for this, but they seem to do the job!

Grabbing a drybrush, I would dip it in a container of water and then rub it on one of those long chalky things. The pigment would come off, and as I brushed it onto the model, it would pool around things like rivets. I did this with the bright orange one - using a lot of water to make sure that it didn't powder the model too much - and let it dry. It looked awful when it was all dried off as it was all powdery residue, but then I hit both sides with a diluted black ink wash which evened the whole model right out nicely and got rid of a lot of the problems with the powder.

 

So, now I've got two reasonably distinct shades of metal on this thing. In the course of painting it up, I've hit it twice with Testors Dull Cote - the washes I use tend to make the whole thing really glossy. Plus, I figure that I never, ever want the paint to flake or chip off this thing, so repeatedly sealing it can't be a bad thing, right? It takes paint overtop really well, which I don't believe would be the case with Gloss Varnish, but you need to be mindful of how you use it as inks and washes don't go on over it all that smoothly.

Up next is hopefully that time where I start picking colors out. I was thinking I'd do that big, thick cable up in a yellow color, pick the wires out in random shades, and add some orky glyphs or two to it, though I'm not certain where there's room yet.