Sorry - no pictures just yet. I'm not ready to post progress. I do have a reputation to uphold after all.
I'm still working on the Spartan Games Dystopian Wars Covenant of Antarctica frigates and I'm using them as a test of the color scheme and how to paint the things. Already I'm finding out what details are important to paint and which ones aren't. So I've "wasted" a fair amount of time painting bits that I'm now painting over. Learning experience, right?
That's why I started with the group of frigates. They're small enough that they'll get lost in the mass of ships and painting a set of them lets me see how it all works. I'm not exactly happy with them but not unhappy enough to strip and start over.
I think the color scheme is going to work well once I get through the process. I'm going with blue-white (to match the faction flag) and I'm trying something new to me. I have a light blue that is both the darkest color for the white and the lightest color for the blue. I don't think I can get much more coordinated than that.
By the way - silver rivets on white are NOT worth the effort. I shall not be making that effort/mistake on the rest of them.
Once this army is done I picked up a Russian Coalition one. If I match their flag I'll be painting red and black. Two difficult colors I would never use in an army. Or a navy. Or an air force. We all know I'll find a way to work them in at least as accent colors but geez. Red and black?
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