Backwater Deathworld

I've had some problems with my Army Painter Strong Tone wash. It gave my miniature a glossy finish and left beige frosting in the recesses. I asked around and was advised to shake my wash bottle well before washing. It was good advice and it worked – to a point; there was still some gloss and frosting left. So I started thinking of switching to another brand. Pictured below: frosting But first, I wanted to check how different brands work out. I took four miniatures for my RRT infantry unit. One was washed with Citadel Agrax Earthshade (A), one with Army Painter Strong Tone (ST; I mean the acrylic wash in a dropper bottle, not the Quickshade dip), one with thinned down paints (P, the paints used were VMC beige brown mixed with VGC black), and for comparison I left one not washed (NW). I sprayed the minis black, then white. I painted the uniforms in two very thin coats of my olive drab mix. The armour was done with a number of thin coats (maybe they count as glazes) using...

Cyberneticist Arsenin, accompanying a Recultivation Regiment's recon squad. His panoptic helmet lets him see wavelengths invisible to humans, and grants him eyes in the back of his head, literally. After the improvements, the percentage of wearers afflicted with God complex fell considerably, but the helmet is still not deemed safe for general use. Arsenin carries a detector, which is little more than a divining rod. That will suffice.

On this minimal planet, there were few insects. Only us, crawling like beetles from distant worlds.

Uniforms: VMC beige brown + VMC middlestone + VGC black, thick coats painted wet on wet. Heavy wash of AP strong tone, light targeted wash of AP red tone. Both washes possibly thinned with VMC airbrush thinner. Armour: wet on wet using white, black (?), AP uniform grey, VMC turquoise, also possibly possibly VMC beige brown, VMC dark sand. Light wash of AP strong tone (possibly thinned).

His knees shook, and he was wroth with himself. "Here is a thing unheard of!" he said. "An Elf will go underground and a Dwarf dare not!" With that he plunged in. Painted with glazes / thin paints, then with washes. Basecoat for the tunic was off-white. Washes were mostly soft tone (but also, at least in parts, VMC beige brown). For the verdigris, over green + white + turquoise basecoat, first was was AP soft tone (over the whole mini, for weathering), the second was AP green tone (only in areas with less light, for shading). Right after came a gold drybrush.

Our regiment started with a duty to guard recultivation of crippled worlds, but here we are, producing thermonuclear firearms.

Like we said, the Cravchyk-pattern is less powerful and stable than older, more elegant weapons. We can produce more rifles of this design and we will. It's not like we can be picky.

Two of the Recultivation Regiment's fusiliers armed with plasma rifles. The recent Cravchyk-pattern rifle is a rudimentary design, prone to failure. It should be assigned to qualified engineers only.