Saturday, January 20, 2007

WIP - Chimera

This is the Chimera from my Guard competition force. During the competition it was nominally attached to the HQ squad as a dedicated transport, but in reality it spent most of its time dashing about the board as a light tank.



Its armed with a Multi Laser in the turret and a Heavy Flamer in the front hull mount.

Before its finished there are various little details like lenses and viewports that need painting, as well as some more high lights on the lasguns and all the stowage needs painting too. The first thing is an allover grime wash to bring down the rust as it's a bit extreme in places at the moment. After that and all the other details have been finished off then the final dirt pass needs adding. This will consist of various washes, dry brushings and splatters of brown shades below the waistline to simulate being slathered in mud for weeks on end.

2 comments:

Andrew Glazebrook said...

This is really class !! Very nice work !!!!

Izzy said...

Cheers Andrew. I've done a bit more to it now, applied a layer of really good claggy mud. It looks good, claggy and muddy but it also covers some of the nice detail I spent so long painting, so I'm not sure if it was a good idea or not now.