Damn Rob just stop it! Your making me look bad lol. I can't keep up to ya.
I love the scheme on the sentiel, did you do the white/steel with the airbrush? If so would you be willing to share your knowledge and tell me your recipes.
Did you use the MSP for the golds? They seem very Rackhamish, if you get my meaning. Unfortunately I just invested in a full set of Game colours and 3/4 of the models colours, so it won't be until next year I can convince my wife that 300+ bottles of paint just isn't enough anymore and I NEED to get the MSP line
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For the airbrushed whites on the sentinel - and those were the front armor panels, engine hood, and light hood - it was done black, then light grey, then 50/50 light grey+white, then just white... This is pretty much the way I handle any "pure" white now. If I need to handpaint it over a white primered mini, I just layer on a base of the Reaper MSP Misty Grey, do some shading with a thinned down Blue Black (custom) and then keep adding white to the Misty Grey until I get up to the pure white.
As far as MSPs go, I really recommend you get yourself at least 9 of them to start with: Stormy Grey, Cloudy Grey and Misty Grey for steel NMM, and Chestnut Gold, Palomino Gold and Buckskin Pale for gold NMM... add in Chestnut Brown for a darker base to the golds, and Pure Black/Pure White for additional highlighting shading... so that's not to bad. Those are my "must haves" out of the MSP line.
So, easier to convince about the recommended 9... LOL! (If you'd like 10, get the Linen White as well...
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I have gotten similar results to the MSP line using VMC Yellow Ochre (base) and VMC Ochre Brown (shadow), to highlight I add VMC Ivory to the Yellow Ochre and White as spots/edges. If I need darker shadow, I've used VGC Beasty Brown or VMC Burnt Umber. That's about as close as I've come to matching the MSP colorations...