We've actually been playing with unpainted ones - now THAT is heresy! But as I'd foisted my Red Planet BASE!🔴 on Otty and his shed, then the next thing to do was paint my assets accordingly.
Alongside my own penchant for Blessed Verdigris 🗽
Void Shield Generator. I had no plan for glow effect. When I ended up with a 'radar' spin I realised one of the arms was going in the wrong direction... I ummed and aahed for all of 5 minutes before I was compelled to fix it.
Plasma Generator follows suit on my red glass insulator coils, rather than blue or even orange plasma glow FX.
Comms Radar Dish.
Command Bunker.
Missile Defence Battery.
Lost titan crew.
Titan firing templates, all shiny and gold.
So much better using painted versions of these.
And fun to play around with gold. 4 new things painted.
OK, so here is where things get a bit tricky. Some numbered counters and triangular [or should that be hexagonal?] data pins. When I'm counting up 'models painted' should this be 11 or 2?
Similarly, there are 42 pins here. How would you count them? Individually it seems like I'm gaming a system I have long tried to avoid for these very reasons. However, they are very fiddly to paint, even if small, so what counts when I come to my end of season review?
And another Great Big Wooden Stamp of Approval.
Here are the pics on a white background.
If you didn't already know, I love 😍 Blessed Verdigris 🗽
I had considered full on verdigris buttresses but thought red all the way. Maybe I'll get to play with some more and be adventurous next time...
My fallen titan head. I'll have to do a Warlord to go with it now. The Red Planet BASE!🔴 is a bit ropey here, which is a bit disappointing, but less obvious when on the mat or board.
The varnish is a bit more noticeable here, it seems to have clumped in some of the recesses. But it's a cheaper, thicker varnish so somewhat expected.
We've got loads more of these but they're not on sprue, which will make them 10 times harder to paint, and even prime. Maybe they are worth 'one completed model' each! What do you think?
More TO DONE's to follow.