Three-Point detailing

Absolutely unique identifiers

Now that the so-called common elements were all painted, I had the stuff that didn't fit in my brain as a serializable taskset. The caution stripes, unit numbers, and the different emblems all behaved in their own way on each miniature.

Caution stripes

Being a huge fan of hazard striping I started by painting thin sandy yellow lines into places where my non-artistic brain felt they belonged to. These three minis had a surprisingly small amount of bits that looked like it, so I didn't force myself to add them into places where I felt they could feel a bit off.

On Turkina's backside I added those above the Jump Jets, as well as behind the ER PPCs and LB-5Xs.

The LB-5X on Ebon Jaguar definitely wanted a cautionary marking, as well as the backside of its LRM-10 launcher, and some bits near some heat sinks in the back torso.

Somehow Warhawk was the most difficult one this time. I applied symmetrical warnings to the back torso, just above the hip. The larger surfaces just didn't feel right to me.

Numbers

On these three I chose to paint the unit numbers in a low-visibility style, using just black. I may have been able to come up with excuses until the sun collapsed on itself, but the main reason was that these were already tiny and I didn't want to mess them up more.

Of course I recorded my chosen numbers into my tracker that now also checked that there were no duplicates. Ebon Jaguar #214; Turkina #224; Warhawk #225.

Clan insignia

Both Turkina and Warhawk had somehow enough space on top of their torsos for me to make a crappy attempt at the Clan Jade Falcon insignia, but I just couldn't find a good enough place on Ebon Jaguar. I decided to skip it instead of pushing it and ending up with a mess.

Gamma and Talon roundels

For the Galaxy and Cluster emblems I had the same approach as I had for ages: a light grey roundish thingie, over which I painted either a jade green bird shape or sword parts. Once or twice I had tried to paint the described shadowing on the planets but that had failed so miserably that I didn't try it anymore.

The triplet a step or two closer to being completed:

 

These had pretty decent panel lines already, but I was expecting the pin washing to make them even better.