Posts Tagged ‘Mech’
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True to their name House Steiner’s Tamar Cavaliers use a very ‘knightly’ scheme of silver and red. As silver is the dominant color it presents the nice challenge of painting a Mech almost completely in metallics. Continue reading Avatar »
Night Hawk
The Federated Commonwealth Regimental Combat Teams usually use a scheme of blue and gold, but the 3rd RCT is an exception. Nicknamed “The Penitants” they paint their Mechs jet black.
Black is not an easy color to paint in my opinion as the result can easily look grey or whatever-color-was-used-for-highlights-tinted. I based my highlights around Continue reading Night Hawk »
Griffin IIc
Another BattleMech in a canon scheme this Griffin IIc proudly wears the colors of Clan Wolf’s Blue Keshik. I always liked the ‘come get some’ pose of the Mech so I decided to paint as if the pilot likes to engage in close combat. Obviously he or she knows how to use the massive fists and the many scratches and damaged spots on the armor tell tales of hard fought battles with the Griffin in the thick of it.
You can also see the Griffin IIc featured on camospecs.com with a terrain background.
(11/2011)
Firebee
The official colors of House Dai Da Chi of the Capellan Condederation are ‘a gold-tinged green with green or black accents’. Intrigued by the gold-tinged green I knew I had to try out the scheme eventually. My approach was to use a rather vivid green build around Reaper Master Series Muddy Green (sound rather bright doesn’t it 
) and Vallejo Model Colors Camo Bright Green. To get the ‘gold-ting’ I highlighted the green parts by adding Vallejo Model Air Interior Yellow to the mix until using neat Interior Yellow. For the final highlights I added a drop of white for selected hotspots. The green parts were shaded using a medium to dark blue.
At first I wanted to omit battle damage … but I can’t … I did go light on it however and the damaged spots were painted as if the damage is new and fresh.
All in all a very interesting miniature to paint. You can also see the Firebee featured on camospecs.com with a terrain background.
(10/2011)