Round Six Report from Rob Jedi - Part 5

Rob Jedi continues:

OK - I was happy with the detailing (as weird as it is to do the converting half way through the paint job!). Back to the painting: I went back to work on the legs. These had lots of shading added to differentiate the various angles of the panels. I used some very old GW greys for this - Elf Grey and Ash Waste Grey. I was mostly filling in panels and leaving a white edge in the flat areas, and blending in the curved areas (such as the shins and the sides of the feet).

After this, I went back to doing the darker areas between the panels, and the padded-looking areas around the back of the legs. I started these with Codex Grey, then went over that with Palmer Charcoal Grey (which is a near-black grey colour). I added highlighting, and smoothed it all together on all of these areas - then added more detailing, with more of the red triangles pointing to the little divot areas in the legs.

I then added some hazard stripes to the back of the legs.

I started these areas with Golden Yellow, then highlighted them with Badmoon Yellow, then edged them with black and drew in the lines. After that was done, I highlighted the top edge over both the yellow and black with a swipe of white ink.

I continued this process, slowly filling in all the panel lines and etc - till I decided to do the ball joints and some other areas in metallic, to break up all the grey. I used Boltgun Metal and then did a wash over the top of Raw Umber mixed with black. This dulled down the metal, and gave it a more "worn iron" look.

I think I went nuts with details at this point. I added checkers to the thigh areas and vent lines above them. I then decided to do the VASA logo on the hips. I looked it up on the net - and frankly, they couldn't have come up with a fiddlier logo. It's a black circle with three overlapping white circles with three red dots on top. I started it by drawing the circle. I then filled it with black, and added a highlight at the top. I then used white paint and a fine brush to paint the three circles. This was a bit of a mess in the middle, so I went back with black and cleaned it all up, so it was neat and had the gaps between the rings. I then dotted the three red dots. That was tricky. I wasn't game to do the other side till the following night.