Through excessive mopping up with a brush I was able to dave things to some degree, but the weathering has ended up being much, much heavier than I intended. Rather than apply the subtle shading I was after, and rather than immediately receeding into the contours and crevises of the model it just sat there like some vile dark slime. I stirred it up as usual but once applied it became obvius that something was wrong. It was at this stage I noticed how thick and gloopy it was. This is where the alarm bells should have run, however I proceeded to ‘slap in on’.
#Quickshade painting system skin#
As such I had to remove a thick skin from the surface of the shade within the tin before application to the model. The problem I hit here was my can of Quickshade was quite old and hadn’t been sealed properly the last time I used it. It leaves them very shiny, but protected and I always apply matt varnish as the final step in these cases. I have had some success in the past with a fairly light coat of this brushed on to models. My plan here was to paint on Army Painter Quickshade Dark Tone. The first stage was to stipple using an old bit of sponge both dark brown and then silver across the most worn areas of the model. This is something I never used to do on any models, but now religiously do whether I am painting PVC, hard plastic, resin or metal. With there being two in the set I could afford to experiment a bit on this first one.įirst step was a wash in warm soapy water.
So in terms of getting the Vrill Panzers painted up I thought I would go for a ‘late war’ dunkelgelb, by really weather it up. The Vrill Panzers are chunky, really nicely detailed and heavy however they are by no means the biggest models in the set (more on that later). Absolutely no sign of warping or bending weapon syndrome from what I have seen so far. There are two of these in the set of boxes I received, they are (like all the miniatures) one piece casts in a very hard PVC style material. Vrill Panzer top right (more on the big chap in a bit….) The ‘Vrill Panzers’ – basically big stompy (piloted) robots. Where this isn’t really a problem is with the ones that immediately caught my attention when opening the boxes for the first time.
Fine on there own in any game, but might look a little odd alongside other parts of my collection. The scale is somewhat larger than standard 28mm and probably sits somewhere between 35 and 40mm. I fully intend to play the game, but like many things in my collection the thought ‘I could always use this for 7TV‘ is never far from my mind. However it was really the miniatures I was after. A small dent in the backlog, but very satisfying all the same. I managed to get this finished in a couple of evenings, which brings to the end a story that started many many hobby years ago. In general they look pretty good but they don’t fit together very flush so I may have to play around with a knife removing some of the plastic ‘lip’ from the edges of the pieces which I think will help a little. I’ve not had chance to use these in a game yet, but have set them up on a table for some photos and to test out some layouts.
Matt varnish applied to seal everything in and dull down the Quickshade. Once complete and dry everything was given a very liberal matt varnish spray. For extra effect I also used Citadel Nurgle’s Rot to add slime/toxic waste/stagnant water to the small craters and holes molded into the parts.įlock, clump foliage/lichen and ‘Nurgle’s Rot’ applied I went with liberal use of flock and clump foliage / lichen to give some interest to the expanses of brown concentrating in particular in placing this to hide the ‘hex lines’. I went with Quickshade again for the shading on the trench interiors (although this time using the Dark tone). Trench interior planking given a green grey coat.
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