Hi Folks,

As Weather is definitevly not by my side, no outdoor activities over the past Week-end. Week in fact. And the weather broadcast for the coming days is even less attractive.

It left me with some time to spend painting.

And I used it quite well progressing on the 2 odd stuffs from the Moroch set: Meaning the dish antena and the (beacon ?) tower.

I tried to do these 2 lighter tainetd than the Ryza Pattern Hab-bunkers. Just to get something close in pallet but offering some contrast on the table. I applied a variant of the colour recipe I used for the Bheta-Decima pillars. At least these pillars are painted, meanwhile the last spur od platform is still on progress. For 2 months. It is progressing as fast as my WFB resurected Proxi-Gor unit (MoN).  2 Prooject I can´t convince myself ending for good.

Anyway, back on the Moroch accesories. 

But first, with a recipe for the main "Light Plastcrete" colour:

• Step 0 is a white prime. Let´s skip it and jump to Step 1: a good wash of Contrast Basilicanum Grey

• Step 2 is a deep dry brush with Layer Russ Grey. Not Dry, but Layer: dry is too dry and you need enough "wettness" to cover flat areas. Or at least it is how I justify myself as I do not have any pot of Dry paint for this purpose....  

• Step 3: a light dry bush of Sky Grey. Any other light grey (Dawnstone for example if we stick to GW range) would be okay

Et Voila! Simple, quick and dirty. Perfect for scenery. The last step is probably the most important one: this is the moment when the miniature takes life. 

You can of course have variants, such as changing the priming in grey and washing with Agrax Earthshade or Wildwood. It gives darker backgrounds.

You can do the deep dry wash with Mechnicum grey or the Fang and you have other kinds of finishes.

See for example my Administratum building in Galleries for the latter or the Ryza Bunker hab for the former...

Then, time to  details, but not too much, and here is the final result:

Should you do the same on the beacon tower (pimping it a little bit more) you have something quite acceptable too

Both pieces are in a tone that makes them compatible with the rest of my collection while introducing a small hue in the pallet. 

Let´s see think about how I will treat the landing pad next. I might try the same recipe or go toward something even lighter. Maybe I will skip the washing step, and go drybrushing directly on a sky grey base coat. Russ grey and Mecahnicum grey in degraded maybe?

See you soon once I will have answered this question.