Playing with fire

Today I tested out the main paint scheme for the Stormtalon hull. Turned out OK I guess.

Aegis Defence Line : Step II - Airbrush work

Rain! Rain! Rain all day! A perfect time to work on some models!

Yesterday I realized that the gun in the Imperial Bastion kit (I bough one along with the Defence Line) is the Icarus lascannon so I decided to build that gun too. I don't think that I would play it but it's cool to have the model ready if I change my mind in the future.

When all the pieces were ready and mounted on some corks caps or paint bottles it was time to finaly apply paints. I didn't glue the guns togheter to be able to paint them more easly

The first step was to undercoat all the pieces with Vallejo Acrylic - Polyurethane Black Primer (also called "surface primer") with my airbrush

When the primer was dry a applied Vallejo Model Air Light Grey from above leaving black in the deep recesses. This color cover black very well in one coat so I would be able to put down the next color (a blue) very easily with only one or two coats.

As a side note, VMA Light Grey is an almost perfect color match for the grey primer in Surface Primer line of Vallejo

I wanted to give a bit of color in the shadow areas of the walls and the guns so I applied a bit of Vallejo Model Air Dark Sea Blue. Precision is not key here as you could see in the following picture :)

When this layer was dry I applied the main color on all the pieces: Vallejo Model Air French Blue

I then highlighted the walls and the guns starting with a 1:1 mix of French Blue and Vallejo Model Air Light Sea Blue followed by Light Sea Blue by itself on the most exposed areas

To tie all the colors togethers I misted a very diluted (around 1:20 color to thinner) coat of French Blue all over the painted areas

And this is the final result:

When the last coat of paint was dry I applied a layer of Vallejo Satin Varnish to protect the airbrush work. It was the first time I used the airbrush to apply a varnish coat and I must say that it worked very well.

All in all it was a very productive day and I'm quite satisfied with how the Aegis is coming along!

Next: details!