The green camo part
The camouflage as a term was a term that sounded a bit too planned in this case. Each of my Points or their components had their own style and sometimes even shades. All I ever intended was a shape-breaking with the mess(es) I made.
Taping first and foremost
I spent a single evening (about 40 minutes) playing with masking tape. This was quite simple, I just set a length of it on the cutting mat and started slashing different shreds and triangles out of it. None of this had any specific plan or a thought-out goal, until I got the idea of the Warhawk having a flamelike thing in the top CT.
My partner was half-observing this nonsense from the next seat while doing her own stuff, and after a while said that she'd thrown all of this into the wall after mere moments, as it was so frustrating to see. I, on the other hand, found it incredibly relaxing because it required enough concentration to drive all work-related things from my mind.
Then the colour
Again I was forced to realize that I simply didn't own any medium or light green Vallejo * Air series paint, but the darker ones I had a bunch. Instead of airbrushing I then returned to the overbrushing mode. The green I used (VMC 70942 Light Green) was a bit thicker than the Model Airs so I thinned it down a bit with Vallejo's acrylic thinner before anything else.
Over this layer I also drybrushed with a lighter mix. On my jam jar lid the difference between shades was clear but it didn't show that much on the miniatures.
Tapelessness
Actually finding and then peeling off the tinies of tape fractions took almost as much time as cutting and placing them, or painting the greens. That was quite a bit of tinkering. Of course I also missed a few and found them on my wip photos afterwards.
Next up: bare steel surfaces!
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