So I found some time to do a bit more on the old Serpent. I tried my hand at edge lining the @$%^er and also resprayed the bottom - that moot green I had previously used didn't look very good at all.
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| First thing's first, I used tape and masked the yellow and red - that didn't take too long. |
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| I was going to go a straight black but instead when a gray with some black over the engine bits. One of the joys of trying to do this hobby on the cheap is mixing one's own paints ;-) |
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| You can see the contrast between the green back and gray sides here quite nicely. |
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| The lighting looks a bit crap but you can at least see the differences between the colours etc |
So with the underside looking a bit better, it was line edging time. I did all the yellow panels with a white and the Red panels I did with a near-orange (forget what it's called now) as the red I was going to use just didn't pop enough.
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| There must be some special hell for this type of painting 😒... |
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| ...but the results are looking pretty good 😁 Dire Avengers for the hell of it and also to remind me how small the model actually is. |
So there you have it. Again there are some lessons here that I'll no doubt forget next time I tackle a similar job, so I won't even bother writing them down. Hopefully tomorrow I might get close to finishing the job. My plan is to:
- Re-spray one or two of my dirtiest yellow panels - it seems no amount of brushed on airbrush paint can cover the messes I made;
- Do something with the green door at the back... maybe outline it in red and white?
- Use Blutak over the silver spirit stones and give the whole thing a matt varnish; then
- Use my gem paints on the spirit stones.
Presently I don't think I'll do any transfers - it's actually looking busy enough as it is. Maybe by this time next week I'll have it finished!