Diamond Shark terrain

Sharks on dry land

Piranha's hex texture

Being done nearly twenty years ago the other four Points had their bases shaped, and I shockingly didn't have the original stuff left anywhere anymore. I used what I actually had and made a bit of surface texturing with Vallejo's Mud.

 

When the mud dried they all had some sort of a terrain under their feet, if non-matching at this point. I thought I'd use oil paints to unify the bases, which was something I hadn't done in a short bit. In the name of unification I might need to fish out some foliage fluff for the Piranha, otherwise it'd be easily finished.

Star's battleground

To counter the lightish paintjob I wanted a bit darker and earthier set of bases for the Star. I coated the terrain with a slightly thinned down Dark Brick Red (ABT220) and applied some even thinner Industrial Earth (ABT090) in splotches.

 

After a night in the sauna I painted the front hex edges with greyish blue (the AMT-7 kind) and drybrushed the terrain a bit with Buff (ABT035). I used that also gently on the tops of the minis which accidentally made the Piranha a bit dirty. Maybe it had just fallen down in battle?

At this point I used gloss varnish on the viewports and energy weapon lenses.

For the absolute fun of it I painted some effect on the Cougar B's ER PPC barrels. It didn't stand out that specially from this blue/grey scheme, unlike in the earlier Jade Falcon. But I did it anyway.

Now I was left with some little finishing touches anymore, those being cleaning up the hex edges, drybrushing black on the Stormcrow C's LB-X, and perhaps adding that still missing fluff to the feet of the Piranha. Without veggies it was the only one in the Star and that wasn't cool.

Final finishings

From ponderings to doings. I fixed the missing things on a calm evening. In addition to sooting the Stormcrow C I also did that on the Ice Ferret E's ATM launcher.

Our cats were again blocking the long-term storage so the plants for Piranha had to wait for another day. Otherwise this was about done now, maybe the front edges should get the hazard striping still. Speaking of caution stripes, I completely forgot to add any on the 'Mechs!

With the cats being distracted I got some foliage and superglued it in place for the Piranha. Then I added the caution stripes that I had been pondering about many times. Ready.