Round Four Report from Abstracity - Part 3

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Minidragon continues:

The pilot got a pin vice drilled into his posterior (so I wouldn't touch him and rub off the paint), and a base coat of green. When the base coat dried, I hit the whole pilot with a heavy wash of GW Orc Flesh Wash.

I did the uniform next. First, I randomly painted on dark brown stripes and splotches. I followed this with Wolf Brown splotches (painted touching the dark brown ones). I gave each splotch a single highlight (I added light gray to the base splotch color). Last, I painted on small black dots in groups, and painted the centers of the dots Galedon Tan.

I painted the gloves, boots, belt, and headset black. I also painted tiny black dots on the lapels and a larger black spot on the hat - these would be rank insignia. I painted the hat insignia gray, then painted 4 tiny white dots inside the circle. The lapel devices just got light gray spots inside the black. The rolled up pants and shirt cuffs got painted a light green...I remembered the inside of my own BDU's were this color and wanted to recreate the effect. It adds some authenticity (on an SF mini...? Go figure!).

I followed my standard method for skin (check out my other LPS reports), but put a bit of Wolf Brown in the mix to keep him a bit tan-looking...I figure he gets plenty of rays on this contraption.

Finally, I highlighted the black bits (adding progressively more white to the black, and adding the highlights in smaller and smaller layers) and the pilot was done! I attached him to the seat with superglue, then attached the gun to the hovercraft (again, with superglue).

At this point the miniature was finished. All that remained was doing a display base. I wanted to make sure the base and the camo scheme went well together, and I wanted to suggest the air blowing out from under the machine.

I used two different lengths of grass - GW Static Grass for close cover, and Woodland Scenics Field Grass for the longer stuff. I glued the field grass on, and immediately pushed it down to make it seem as if the air from the machine was flattening it. I added some dried flowers to represent larger vegetation, and did the same flattened effect for it (I was careful to choose dried flower bits where the foliage was all on one side of the stem to further the effect).

That's all!! Enjoy the pictures!

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