A sandy base
Camospecs told us that the Alpha Galaxy's scheme was a utilitarian camo of desert tans with red trims. In the photos all of the minis were pretty much sandy coloured so that's what I was going for as well. My minis were primed black much earlier, so that part was again skipped here. Like I said the last time, the Sand Yellow (VMA 71028) I had bought for the DAK Panzer IV fit thematically like a glove. As if all this was planned years in advance.
I overbrushed the paint, using multiple layers, the idea being that all surfaces would get covered but the brightest coverage would be over where the light touched the mini. This was some kind of a semi-zenithal approach. Using an airbrush this would've been much more effective and the coverage would've been better from the get-go. I just didn't have the actual time to set up my airbrushing setup for these few evenings, and I felt that the maskless painting didn't exactly require airbrushing.
As the photos showed, I left most of the to-be-dark bits untouched. This included things like the weapons, joints, and other grilles and vents.
Starting with reds
While I had some little time left I thought I'd try out how the red trims (VMA 71003 Red RLM23) would work on the 'Mechs. That Ice Ferret on the right was clearly the one that I had started with. As my time running out I just foreached the other four, to get each of them at least something red to see where that would lead me to.
This'd work out just nicely. It was also lots of fun to paint something new.
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