DZC [001t]

Next batch of models for final detailing. Adding the orange vents, green eye/gems, blue plasma hoses, squad markings etc. This finishes the vehicle models for my next fleet expansion. Now just have the six basic infantry bases to paint and this round is done!!

Load em up!

DZC [001s]

Just a minor update.  Finished the final details on these guys tonight. Moving pretty quickly which is nice for once. 

DZC [001r]

So still on that road to NOVA... Next step equals about an hour of dry brushing Dawnstone to add those metallic highlights.  I think I'll be mass producing these so that they are all done at once. So I'll be doing large chunks of one color at a time. Definitely trying to just bang these DZC guys out this month. Hopefully can finish these in May or early into June and then I'll have about three months for a few 40k dudes and a bunch of Infinity minis as well.  

Next step is orange for the louvers and engines.

DZC [001q]

So...have to add some things for a legal 1500 point force for NOVA this year.  Here's the next batch :)  Yay Dropzone!  Primed with Vallejo Black Surface Primer with the airbrush again and then two or three coats of Hexed Lichen followed by a few highlight coats of Warlord Purple. 

After this run I now find myself out of black primer and airbrush cleaner!?! Gasp! Guess it's time for another order...

DZC [001p]

It's done!!! Last up were the UCM Condor transports :). Been fun drop zone. Until we meet again. Now just have to get someone over to play!

I did forget that these had separate plastic clear canopies that I had to find in the original box. Then sticky tacked them to some card board for quick black primer then shades of red to white for the canopies and then some grey highlights on the black.  Not sure that the red looks the best but it kind of became my screen color on the tanks earlier so I kept it here. 

Same gray and rust for weathering and highlighting here on the bodies. But then did shades of black to blue to white for the thrusters. 

Overall it's been a good project and finished about a month earlier than my goal. Now on to the next project...maybe some of these other board games laying around with models to paint. Until next time. -Zak out

DZC [001o]

Bear APCs and the Kodiak armored command vehicle were up tonight :). Similar techniques were used for a speedy and decent scheme to match the other tanks already painted.  

I found it interesting that the Kodiak has a very strange mold line as the bear style body in resin comes split in half, long ways. I thought about filling this earlier on but totally forgot and was stuck with this. It probably would not have filled well on the back engine area either but I think that I would have liked to fill the front part at least. Oh well. Not going back now, but just something to watch out for if anyone else decides to build one of these. I might have taken the extra bear that came with the starter set and just added the back extra pieces that came with the Kodiak kit. Easy conversion for slightly different aesthetic with the detail level on the resin model versus the plastic model but may have looked better overall. 

DZC [001n]

Next off the line...UCM Rapier AA tanks. Same painting scheme as the Sabres.