Three-Point greyness

For the grey stripes

My overall approach to these Gamma Galaxy miniatures had been pretty much unchanged for a while. First they got the grey basecoat, then a lighter drybrushing, then the camo pattern was painted on with greens, with or without masking. I even checked from my older posts, how did I do this the last time and thought of ways to improve on it.

Cold Grey

This time I didn't want to go for a 100% coverage with grey paint, I let the black primer to show in the panel lines and darkest shadows. On the first quick round I left the arms alone, so I wouldn't slap my sausage fingers onto wet paint. When I was done with the first cycle, I painted the missing bits out of the way.

Overbrushing was the general name of this method, and I used VGA 72750 Cold Grey as a trusted shade of grey:

Warhawk

Ebon Jaguar

Turkina

Stonewall greybrushing

At some point last Autumn I encountered some discussion about drybrushing and there some folks were enthusiastic about the differences between wet-brush and dry-brush drybrushing. The claim was that a water-moistened brush made the results [a bit] smoother, so I thought I'd give it a shot just out of curiosity with the one semibad drybrushing brush I owned. For this I used, predictably, my go-to highlighter VGA 72749 Stonewall Grey.

Warhawk

Before I got any further I took a comparison shot between a drybrushed and the not-airbrushed surface:

A Warhawk was always a fantastic view, especially from the viewpoint of infantry.

Ebon Jaguar

 

Turkina

On these three only the Warhawk's ER PPCs were modeled so that I could just leave them alone at this point. Both the Ebon Jaguar and the Turkina had structures in their hands that I wanted to have painted, so the barrels also got painted, even as they were going to be repainted dark grey not much later on.

Next I should come up with a plan for the camo pattern I would do. Maybe I'd do wavy lines like the previous time.

Had I been smarter, I'd done all this now for my Elementals as well, as I had an assigned Star of them waiting in a box.