It feels like cheating

So the micropen came in today! Just like the post title says... it felt a bit like cheating. When it worked... It really worked! The detail lines came out beautiful and a few touchups really made it seem like the molds were never messed up in the first place. In person does a bit more justice but here's a picture of the fire team anyway! (minus one gun drone because I haven't gotten around to finishing it just yet)

Hopefully its more noticeable especially with the legs, but the black lining really makes the entire scheme pop! Which just reminded me I never even mentioned my scheme or colors at all! I was aiming for a Sa'Cea theme and got pretty close besides how light it ended up being, though I actually enjoy it now. I primed in some Krylon gray, then base coated Pure Black (all paint I used was reaper besides the occasional GW wash), the main armor is a 50/50 mix of twilight blue and snow shadow (full twilight blue may have given me a more traditional Sa'Cea look, maybe next time around), a light grey was used to accent parts of the armor, clear orange was to help signify the sept look and clear red for the eyes and other small parts. For the guns the small bolt part I used an ancient brown. That's the basic of it! Some micropen at the end to really get the detail lines to shine and they were finished! For my first painting experience in close to 6-7 years I have to say I'm happy with how they came out.

So now that they're done I can focus on other models I picked up. I have 2 older broadside models coming in from the UK soon I have to strip and repaint. They are Sa'Cea colors but....

As much as it would save SO much time, the blue is just a bit too dark to match my current color scheme... It's that or I'll end up just repainting parts of it and the guns especially (since they are all black) in my Sa'Cea blue mix and have a nice dark/light contrast and save a bit of time xD I would've bought fresh broadsides and painted/assembled them from scratch, but they are VERY rare to find and for the deal I got these two I couldn't pass it up.

In the meantime though I'll be working on my stealthsuits next, then the crises suit last, maybe even after the broadsides. I did a mock build of the first sealthsuit to work on, I'm pretty stoked to start it!

Honestly this looks like it will be a crazy amount of fun to paint. I found a great color scheme online I want to try for them. Mostly black with some of twilight blue for accents, but the kicker? GW Ice Blue to line the details! I think that would be perfect and make the model stand out on a table. If it comes out real well I may try to paint ends of the model to "phase in/out" into the basing environment. Oh! That reminds me I decided upon an arctic theme for my miniatures bases, a bit of sand washed, some light grass flock then a good amount of snow flock.

Until next time! One of my friends also decided to join in the painting fun and is looking into Eldar at the moment, hopefully he goes through with it!