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So I've been bust with real life lately, but here is some progress finally. Here's a new hellhound I'm testing oil paints on and a Leman Russ I've revisited to make look a little but better. I'm trying to get my tanks closer to a military modeling standard so I'm trying new techniques, but it looks like I really need an airbrush next.

I took a class with Mathieu Fontaine over the summer, so now that I finally have time I'm trying to apply some of the techniques he taught (mostly dealing with wet palettes and zenith lighting).

Your work is great. I love the shape of the scratch tank your building. Your game board is fantastic...I imagine the scenery building is gonna be awesome too!

So I recently got an airbrush and have started to work on all the tanks that were holding out for some airbrush TLC. I have decided to mix up the old paint scheme a bit and try to maximize the use of the airbrush for large model painting, also to try to get better shading and highlighting effects without spending so much time. Unfortunately I'm not totally excited about my original plan for the tank paintjob. The Hydra is my test tank and it's base coated something really close to catachan green then I have airbrushed kommando khaki in stripes over it. My initial thoughts are that it looks a little plain, but after some shading with scorched brown the khaki looks a lot better. I'm thinking it could look even better though, so I tried a few tests on a piece of cardboard.





-The first is plain kommando khaki, the same as the hydra's paint job.

-The second is kommando khaki with a light outline of charadon granite.

-The third is charadon granite with a light highlight of kommando khaki.

I think the second color combo looks really good, but my gut is telling me to use the third since the rest of my army already has a very dark urban scheme and I think that will look most appropriate. Plus I already have a few tanks painted in a similar scheme to the third option.

What do you think?