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Haven't had just a whole lot of time since I've been back to work, but I have been able to make a little bit of progress on my unit of trenchers. This is my first attempt at "production line" painting a unit. Rather than work on each individually, I'm painting one color/step at a time across all of the models. Before I started on the unit, I decided to paint a few up individually, just so I would be sure I had a good feel for the color scheme and what I am going after. These ended up being my "reference" figures for the rest of the unit. Here is what they look like:

I've made quite a bit of progess toward getting the rest of the unit painted. I started by putting on the base colors, basically one color at a time across all figures. I've almost have that finished, so the next step is putting on a series of washes: brown ink on the leathers, flesh wash on the hands, face and the leg-wraps, and finally P3 armor wash across all the metallics. The final step will be to blend in the highlights and add any details, and I'm still debating whether or not I will do that in mass production mode. Right now I am thinking I will highlight and touch up each figure individually, just to give them all a final bit of attention. Anyway, here is how my production painted figures look at this stage of the game:

Hopefully I can sneak in a little time to get them finished up this week. I'd like to start getting my next project primed and ready, but the weather has been alternating between horribly cold and miserably wet, both of which tend to give me less-than-optimal results with spray primer. Here's hoping for some free time and a couple of decent days.

Labels: miniatures, wargaming, Warmachine