Johns Zaku Painting Showcase Entry
Blocking colours and markings. ...maybe some highlighting....a lot.
Army Painter Air, thinned roughly 4-1 and applied in three layers, adding two drops of Worn Stone on each application. Im glad, at this point, that all my preshading work wasn’t obliterated with my generally hamfisted airbrushing! So I have a good looking base to work up from.
Using Army Painter Historical “Strap Grey” watered down and applied thinly for the mechanical and trim areas gave a nice, soft finish, and adding Worn Stone to the colour to bring up my highlights, which also “warms” the colour and softens the contrast.
After that, the same process was done with the brown armour areas, using Army Painter Air Leather brown and, yep oyu guessed it, Worn Stone to mix up the Highlights.
All highlighting is done in three layers, going sharper on each step. I could do a third, but I feel my “realism” idea would start to look cartoony.
Markings!
I really wanted to have this tiny model carry some markings, so using Army Painter Brainmatter Beige to create some linework and some very small “warning” markings on some areas on the model gives the Zaku more life to it. And because I wanted to punish myself, I have also given the markings some vauge highlights with Matt White.
I am starting to see where I’m going more clearly, and my confidence in the end result is slowly growing. but since the model is for a competition, I am having to draw myself back and really think out my next steps, from fear of just going ham and making a mess!
