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What you achieve without using an airbrush is an inspiration to me!

Excellent! I've not been much of a fan of the aliens so far but you've converted me! Good luck with the challenge and spread the word!

Nice I like the pink and blue combo the armour is shaded and highlighted very nicely .

So in the aftermath of the painting challenge i thought i would post some individual pics of the remotes i entered. For the 40 or so people that voted, thanks! This one's for you!

















If there had been a category for "Best Painted With A Bit Of Old Sponge" i might have actually had a chance of winning!

Not really painted much since the DPC but i have finally got round to painting up some bits of junk for some scatter terrain. It was an excuse to practice using some oil weathering techniques before i let loose on an SdKfz 234 model i have waiting to be painted. I'm sure those of you that chew gum will recognise this ...



And i have managed to accumulate a few of them because i thought they would make some nice LOF blockers/ scatter terrain for Infinity. I like the angle they are at when they are flipped over so that is how they will be painted.



On the left is one that is ready for priming. In the middle is one that has just been primed and on the right is one that is nearly done. I primed the one that is nearly done with Vallejo airbrush primer and even with a couple of coats found that it would chip fairly easily. I managed to pick up a Tamiya light grey primer pretty cheap recently from a local model shop that was closing down so i used that on the second one. Seems to be much better as i think it adheres to the plastic better becauses its an aerosol can.



After airbrushing the basic grey colours i started to apply the oils. Then decided it looked a bit plain being all grey so added a bit of colour with some stencil/ masking. Made a pigs ear of the stencil for the numbers and ended up with the paint bleeding underneath. I wanted to distress the coloured areas anyway so i managed to cover up the mistake i think. Hopefully the masking on other ones will go a bit smoother now. Then it was back to the oils to break up the monotonous grey areas.

I have seen tutorials where oils have been used to make streaking effects on military vehicles and wanted to achieve the same effect on the grey areas and to add some different tones to the airbrushed colours.









I think the effect is a bit heavier than i would like in some areas but for a first go its come out pretty well. Hopefully it will look better on the other ones.

I think you got the effect just right.

Grime and gunk accumulate in strange ways on real structures, and honestly these look gorgeous.
I might have to go get some Wrigley's Extra

Oh damn, I chew that gum a lot...I'll have to start saving the cans!

Nice work, mate. The distressed paint is excellent!

Thanks for the comments. You can never have too much chewing gum!

So i finally finished off the other gum containers. Someone on another forum suggested they looked like escape pods so i tried to go for some heat discolouration on the bottom of the latest pair. I tried to get some step by step pictures as well this time.

First up just the basic grey airbrushed on.



The masking on the colour bits was a bit sloppy again but i knew i would be able to sort it out when i went back to distress them.



With added chips/ scratches.



Then after some varnish applying the oils. I tried to tone down some of the effect on the upper parts of the 'escape pods' but i think i may have gone too far the ther way as its not that noticable. :| The streaking on the bottom has come out ok though.





They've been varnished so i may have to back and give them another pass with the oils.

So i took my own advice and did a bit more with the oils to try and add a bit more variation to them. They're pretty much done now except for some weathering powder added to the vents.





Now to find something else to paint.

So i finally painted something! Pretty much done with some REMs for my haqqislam. Although i might do a bit more on the bases.







And i have a couple more to finish off hopefully sooner rather than later.

10/10 would steal for own paintjobs

Have like 400pts (soon 550-600) of CA that have never seen a brush, simply because I hate the default paint job and can't think of what colours to do them up in

...Wow, that REM is much better than I thought that model could be - really love the muted colours!

@Dakkamite
Look up Medusa's WiP thread. I hate the basic paint jobs as well, totally fell in love with his work though

Nice! Well done!

I never thought a REM could look that great.

I've actually magnetised the weapons on these so am painting them separately. I think they look better without them as they look a bit more streamlined. And just for Alpharius i actually tried out using an airbrush on something smaller than a TAG sized model on these. Its making me think i should try it on some of my combined models now!

@ Dakkamite the good thing about CA is that you are actually painting 4 or 5 separate races so you can try different schemes for the different alien races. I usually try and start with something close to the studio scheme but end up changing it slightly.

Fantastic work! Nice to see so much effort on terrain, it really pays off, and I love the blending job you have done with the remotes.

Finished off my nasmats apart from tidying up the bases.

Those Nasmats are tremendously detailed, especially for their size! Very nice job

Oh, those are cool! I'm playing Haq when I finally get time to learn. Care to give a simple color breakdown on those?

Love the terrain as well. I eat that gum and have been throwing out those containers. Not any more!

 Pacific wrote:
Those Nasmats are tremendously detailed, especially for their size!

Well Pacific what did you expect, they are Infinity minis!

@Slave Its a bit of a mix of paints but basically the main colour on the bodies is Folk Art craft paint 'Pebblebrook'. I'm not sure if there would be an equivalent GW colour but i have some Vallejo Flames of War German Camo Biege which is pretty similar in terms of colour. The armoured brown parts were painted with Foundry Dusky Flesh shade as a base. I think the equivalent GW colour would be Dark Flesh if they still did such a thing! Vallejo also have a Dark Flesh which is probably pretty close. The rest of the legs and body were done with a dark blue/ grey base and then highlighted with various greys. Hope that helps.

Pictures of some space wo... uh, Domaru Butai for my Yu Jing army. These guys (well guy and gal) have been 'WIP' for over a year! At least they are ready for some varnish now.

Nice! That blue looks amazing.

Where did you find those textures for the foam core buildings?

These are very very nice Haqqs you got there! I love the smooth colors.

Beautiful job, very nicely done! As the others have said lovely shade of colour.

Looking Good, I wish I could just make good looking terrain like that.

Thanks for the comments.

@ BB the textures are from this guys site. http://www.art.eonworks.com/gallery/texture/texture_gallery_1.html It says they are free so download away! There are lots of good textures for building exteriors and there are some cool panels and control screens that would make a nice spaceship interior.

Time for another WIP model that finally got finished. A Khawarij from the first Infinity starter box i got (back when he was still in the starter box!). I reckon i must have started him over 4 years ago now, but never got round to finishing him. But now he's done.

I may have to steal your idea for the gum pods. Really great looking final product.

Kudos!

Nice minis especially the remote looks fantastic. I also like the markings on the base I think I will borrow that idea.