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Here's a land raider i'm painting up... trying a new technique for highlighting. Normally I just do an extreme highlight of goblin green, then an even more extreme highlight of scorpion green. Did something quite different this time... spray primed the tank snot green, then applied a thick layer of badab black to the whole tank... then drybrushed snot green onto it, then drybrushed goblin green onto it, then drybrushed scorpion green onto it, then did a final edge highlight with scorpion green. What do you think of it, dakka?

I thoroughly enjoy it, everything looks very smooth and even. If only I had the patience to pull something like this off...

Now, what did you do for the lascannons? Is that just some thinned down and washed silver?

the lascannons are just thinned down boltgun metal.

I like it, Looks great

Looks good! What exactly makes it mars pattern?

Painting wise, i love it.
Great smooth edges with sections picked out by the drybrushing work great.

Only problem i do have isnt with the painting, its the suicide pattern lascannons i dont like (well, suicide for marines that leave via the side door)

While I'm not crazy about the metallics or the grey parts, that green is absolutely lovely.

۞ Jack ۞ wrote:Painting wise, i love it.
Great smooth edges with sections picked out by the drybrushing work great.

Only problem i do have isnt with the painting, its the suicide pattern lascannons i dont like (well, suicide for marines that leave via the side door)

What he said... word for word

thanks for the kind words, guys. Its nerve wracking to paint a $60 model with a brand new technique that i've never tried before... glad to know it came out alright, and i'll certainly be doing it with my other vehicles. Didn't take significantly longer than any other vehicle i've done, so time isn't a factor.... thats about 4 hours of work on this raider.

Need to just freehand some chapter symbols on it, and i'm good.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Looks good! What exactly makes it mars pattern?

ditto on this one. it looks like what i know as the standard godhammer variant to me nicely painted.

well, the phobos and demos patterns are known variants of the dual-godhammer wielding pattern... Mars pattern may be the wrong name for it... its probably a phobos pattern or something.

ma bad there's nothing fancy or forgeworld about it.

Looks very nice indeed. I'm not a fan of harsh edge highlights, (see my gallery) so this suits my tastes very much.