Hi Folks,

After painting, assembly and basing of the legs, paint job has continued with the cockpits. It has required some thinking steps before putting the first touch of color. Well not really as black undercoat and metal dry brush did not need that kind of auto reflexive step…

Once metal has been done, the decision making was done by elimination:

1.      Getting the back of the hull as per the one I have done for the Styrix: bronze back.

2.      Keep the Eshin  grey as a main color

3.      Add some variations

For the variation I have started trying red stipes on one half of the hull. Even If I made serious progresses in my precision cutting and pasting of tapping It has not been convincing, mainly because of the angle break of the upper hull which gave a odd outlook for the stripes. A second attempt with bicolor hull with one half red and a second one grey was not more convincing. So I have ended with plain grey and only a pair of hoods red. Variations will be brought by pauldrons instead.

Now that I have 3 pairs of legs and cockpits painted, and despite the color break brought by the basing, the pre-assembled stuff looks very monolithic. I will need something the break this aspect with Pauldrons. Models are DEFINITIVELY in need of some relief.

See you later when I will have made some progress on “how to bring depth and eye-catching impact on big grey blocks”.