The Dwarven Engineer and his Turret
With the bugs all done, the major things left to paint are the dwarves, and I started with the engineer. This was the first miniature I tried using the Xpress colors over a white base coat, instead of the shaded base coat used in slapchop. And it worked out very well! The contrast paint gave a really good head start to laying in shadows and highlights, and I was really pleased with how it turned out. The Engineer's turret was a fun and quick project. I did the entire miniature as silver, starting with Vallejo Tinny Tin over a black base, and then dry brushed up to silver all over. Then two coats of VXC Plague Green was carefully applied where I wanted the panels to be metallic green, leaving the pipes and vents silver, and then everything was edge highlighted with Vallejo Game Air Silver. The green lens effect came out, and I even painted the ammo counter to show that bullets are the answer to everything.
