Stompa!

Recently I was offered a trade for my painting services. For it, I received this shiny (ok somewhat dusty) Stompa! Now that I have finished up, I'll share a few tidbits around my process.

Prime time

• Primed with Mephiston red here and black. Since I don't have an airbrush, I used saran wrap to mask out the large areas and used a spray-paint to cover the black, red and white areas.

Panels

• Painted the red panels with the technique in the above diagram [details here] Took a while but worth it.

• For the white areas I tried giving it a wash of contrast apothecary white, but the wash didn't hold up well on the flat areas, causing some pooling that I went back and smoothed over with Uthuan Grey, then edge highlighted with white.

• For the copper I used base of Hashnut copper and warplock bronze in the recesses, then gave it an agrax earthshade wash. For the metal I used a base of Iron warriors and Ironbreaker for highlight areas, then the standard nuln oil wash.

Bits and Such

I realize I am skipping over a bit here, but you can check out the blog index to see some of the techniques I used for yellow, patterns, and ork skin.

• I appreciated that the model was put together (I'm not an enthusiastic modeler) BUT this did have some disadvantages, especially when painting the ork pilot and some of the rokkits. I had to get creative with the angle of my brush and finding new ways to hold my elbows close to my body and arm locked in place for a steady hand

• Like my other vehicles, I focused on thick broad brushstrokes with less emphasis on transitional blending. Bold is best here

• I worked over a period of 11 days, in 1-2hr increments. This kept me fresh and up to date with my podcasts!

• The toughest spots was the rockets. Large flat rounded areas don't lend themselves to nice highlights as much.

• Used a LOT of colors, as evidenced by the mass migration of paints from my normal workbench to my basement Stompa workshop. Wet pallet essential, as I often had to touch up a variety of areas as I went along

• I used mostly junk brushes. I bought a package at Hobby Lobby that worked well. Saved my good brushes when I got to the pilot and had to go a level higher in detail.

• Added a few Gretchin to the back that were pre painted. Just went back and touched em up a little.

Conclusion

Well there you have it. Now time to get some sort of storage and transportation method worked out so I can get Big Bessie to the gaming table. I have a styrofoam box that I think will work well. Now on to the big Boss GHAZ himself! I'm a bit torn as how to paint him. I am thinking mostly black, but with a few red panels to represent Evil Sunz.