The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

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Wednesday, 30 December 2020

SebastianR: The Armoury

Another short post. Dropping into the armoury with a collection of American MBTs and IFVs.

They're the start of a... lets just say it's a latter day American Civil War scenario and leave it at that.

Like the ghouls I made some questionable painting choices along the way. Unlike the ghouls, I only partially managed to recover from it, at least as far as the temperate ones are concerned.

The desert ones? I think I pulled it off.

I was trying to replicate the style used by Battlefront on their tanks, the very clean style with strong picked out details. I think I should have thinned my wash more. And done a pin wash rather than an all over wash. And had a green to better match the base green spray... I took a risk getting a satin varnish on these things, it didn't really pay off. Back to the drawing board.

I got them second hand and the lack of decals makes them feel surprisingly bare. I hear it's surprisingly easy to make your own; if it ever starts bugging me I might indulge them.