I decided to try to paint checks on my naut, to give it a little bit of style. I looked up a couple examples and went to town with masking.
I started by masking out some squares.
And then I hand painted the squares:
Fuuuuuckkkkk.
I decided to re-optimize my airbrush process, since I have some space upstairs I could do it in. I re-masked, but this time doing all of the checks at once.
And then bust out the airbrush with some GW White Scar and Golden Airbrush Medium.
Here’s the bad side. I didn’t fix it up before I airbrushed, so the fact that it looks a little like crap is acceptable. I didn’t want to paint blue over the white, since I didn’t want to layer it over something that would just be white again. In hindsight, an argument could be made to just airbrush the dark blue and start over.
Here’s the front, which does not have an excuse for looking crappy. 🙁
And the other side, which was the only side that ended up looking good. 🙁
I went back in with PP Exile Blue, which looked dark enough and hand painted some cover-up.
The “bad” side looks a little bit like ass. I’m hoping that with the weathering I’m going to do, that it’ll look ok in the end, but I layered the blue paint to thick and now it’s just not good. 🙁
Pretty unhappy, but at least with orks “bad paint job” can be a style. 🙁
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