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Painting the landing pad

2018-04-26 by David

With the Landing Pad assembled and glued together, I smoothed over the model with some 400 grit sandpaper and then filled the joins in the top surface with some wood filler. You can see that preparation guide here.



£ I used matt black as a spray undercoat, in two thick coats.



£ Next came the fun part - a careful drybrush with the Games Workshop paint Leadbelcher (dark silver). This was done lightly using a wide 2" brush. At this point I could have happily added it to my Necron-themed table, but I wanted to take it a step further...



£ The engravings around the outside were given a quick coat of gold, and then two heavy washes with Agrax Earthshade to bring out the detail.

 

I wanted to paint the four corner domes as light sources, and in a moment of madness I decided to also paint the recessed lines on the steps too! A clean coat of pure white on the domes and steps, and I was almost ready to add the green, but first.....



£ Light effects tend to work best with a little glow on the surrounding areas, so I took out my very basic Games Workshop airbrush and attempted to spray the area around each of the domes. Sadly, I am a complete beginner at airbrushing, and messed up the paint/water ratio, so my white came out very liquid, by spattering the surrounding areas. Oops!

 

Never mind, I was rushing to get this on the site, so I just went with it - hoping I could hide the splatter with the green topcoat!

 



 

£ Here's the finished version. I used the most luminous green paint I could find, Moot Green, and started painting over all the white areas. Thankfully some careful smudging of the green into the black areas managed to hide the worst of the white splatter.

 

Job's a good 'un!

 


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