Fallout bits and pieces [updated 9/9/14]

[stone-cold-lead]

Am going to be painting my own ones of those shortly. .. would love a painting tutorial!!

I was planning on documenting my progress through a set of Mr Handys today but it's been such a busy day and I've been doing several things to keep on top of work so those plans have fallen by the wayside.

I can give you my metals recipe though.

Base coat mix of VMA Steel, VMC USA Olive Drab and a little black. For the first layer of highlight just add some more Steel to the base mix. You can layer that on pretty quickly, you could even overbrush it. Next highlight layer, pretty much pure Steel, again quickly layered. Neatness doesn't matter too much at this point as some washes will pick out the detail. Let the paint dry fully before doing the washes.

Washes: First off a mix of undiluted GW Nuln Oil and Agrax Earthshade (about 3 parts black to one part brown). Cover everything, maybe clean up any heavy pooling, especially on flat areas. Let it dry then hit it again with the same wash but add a little water to thin it this time.

When that's dry give it a paint wash, a mix of VGC Charred Brown and VGC Imperial Blue. The mix wants to be a little more brown than blue. Thin it with water but it should still be quite heavy. Use a clean wet brush to tidy up any nasty pooling or if it looks a bit heavy in places. You can focus the wash more heavily in some places if you want more grime.

When that's dry I use another paint wash, this time VGC Parasite Brown. This is for rusting. You can thin it right down and wash the whole model to add a light rust everywhere or you can keep it quite heavy and focus it in key areas. You can build up heavier colour with more washes if you like.

Final job is to pick out all the edges, bolts, panel lines, whatever with Steel. Use broken lines of Steel to give a chipped look.

It's quite quick but there is a lot of waiting around for washes to dry.

[Raxxus]

You should paint some of the LAM figures aswell, It would been awsome.

[stone-cold-lead]

More stuff done. Some slightly over sized Mr Gutsies, some very IP safe not-Securitrons, an NCR Veteran and a Super Mutant.









Everything I've painted for this commission is over on my blog along with a quick stage by stage run through of how I painted a Securitron.

Just one more model to paint for this lot, a wasteland sniper, then it's job done!

[stone-cold-lead]

Last model done!

[Mr.Marx]

Well, they make everything I've ever painted looked like a cat was just sick on them.

Great stuff!

MM.

[Steve F]

Very, very nice paint.  I particularly like the chipped white star on the flying thingy.

[uti long smile]

Gorgeous!

[Puuka]

Got a few more things done. This time Protectrons and Eyebots. Still need to do the basing on these but the camera was all set up so I thought I'd take a couple of pics.



More to do next week.

They remind me a bit of this guy

Heroclix Cherno Alpha. (Base is about 1.5")

[zizi666]

Since LAF is lacking the appropriate emoticon :

[Chainmailninja]

Absolutely gorgeous! I was about to bug you for a write-up on the rust effect, it looks fantastic. Thanks a ton for the tutorial write up.

[SerialMoM]

Bravo, Bravo!

Excellent paintjobs!

[stone-cold-lead]

Thanks for the comments everyone 

[Constable Bertrand]

       BLOOMING AMAZING!     

oh do show us more!

Cheers
Matt

[JackTR]

yeah great job. I especially like the NCR ranger PJ

[Andym]

Excellent! And thanks for the painting tips! I'm sooooo using that!