The wonderful world of additional detailing
On a Sunday evening I got inspired to paint more details and didn't even think of stopping to take wip photos. Not that my freehanding was worthy of closer looks nor documentation, they were ugly in each stage.
Dark grey fine tuning
The previous evening's metal pieces had lost something, so I drybrushed them with the lighter grey. This made them look better, now that the eyes had something in the edges to grab on.
Caution striping was completed with dark grey stripes.
For my gentle surface damage effects I again added a bit of red into the dark grey and went on filling the AMT-coloured bits with this red-tinted grey. The difference between plain dark grey and red-tinted one wasn't immene but there was a difference.
I actually liked the reddish grey so much that I used that alone for my Point numbers (Stormcrow 211; Viper 215). This approach I tried in order to save myself some pain and annoyance of paiting two ~identical tiny numbers over each other with a tiny offset.
Hands free
The Galaxy insignia I tried to implement with an ivory-coloured shape over the lightning bolts, and over that some dark dots. Those were supposed to represent the Ghost Bear that was about to maul you, in this scale.
As always, my personal problem with the insignia was the same: tiny surfaces on a mini and little space on said panels. For the Clan roundel I painted a dark grey circle. Over that I painted a blue asterisk at a 90° angle with counterclockwise-pointing clawlike bits. Over and inside them I did the same shapes with off-white (VMA 71075 Sand (ivory)) and a lump in the middle for the bear's head with the dark grey nose-eye-mouth dots. Or that's what they were supposed to look like from far, far away.
My Stormcrow definitely was missing something from the rear sector, as only the backsides of the shoulder plates were anyhow highlit and that wasn't visible enough for a follower of the Founder. Also the Viper's fists made me consider seriously if they ought to be bare steel instead. Maybe the next evening.
Viewports
All of the viewport panes were either tiny or otherwise strangely shapes. I basecoated them all with Yellow Ochre as the main colour. For jeweling I lightened it up with a drop of white/ivory and did tiny dots however I had space. On a few of the Stormcrow's larger windows I also had the space for the brightest dots.
Yellow was, always, a really difficult colour or I was just bad with playing with some colours.
While writing this I was more convinced that there were a couple of things still to do before the next main step, pin washes. This stuff took about 20 minutes, getting us to 1h 20mins.
