Thursday, February 12, 2026

GDG Painting Contest Phase 3 Entry

 Here we go, week 3, an infantry unit with attached heavy weapons team. Used Sgt. Rocky Top as the unit sergeant, because he's pretty awesome as a figure. The infantry unit has 2 bazookas as specialist weapons to give some more punch (though I'm not a fan of the range, its not really long enough imo).





Hopefully the judges will pay more attention to the actual painting of the figures over presentation. Way to often in painting contests the paintjob is only a fraction of what actually gets taken into account. I've been in contests where people entered basically dioramas, with fairly average paintjobs, but those people got some of the top spots over simpler presentations but better paintjobs.  I'm not at all saying GDG's people are going to do that, but it is always a worry after having seen it happen in several contests I've seen or been involved in.

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

GDG Painting Contest Phase 2 Entry

 Seeing as I am predominantly going for US forces to play in Marcher currently, I decided to do up a unit I hadn't so far printed. The Lynx is a neat light scout mecha, and after looking through the official color schemes of the US forces I settled on the standard US Army color scheme. Turns out it hits pretty hard on an 'infantry' model this big. The real trick was moving a bit away from my standard vehicle painting routine and implementing some creature techniques to bring out the edges and curves of the armor plates.