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"Flame On!" - Reichbusters Flame Sentry Guns

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.

Fire And Ice - Robert Frost


Welcome back to The Art of Caesura!

I hope you all had a very happy St. Patrick's Day yesterday, and are recovering from your "celebrations"!

Today is very much a continuation of last week's post about Reichbuster's vril-powered, quad-cannon sentry guns, but this time there's FIRE!


These flamer sentry guns are shorter range, but seemingly no less deadly than their cannon counterparts. 


So, unlike last week, I remembered to take a couple photos of the work-in-progress this time!


I detailed this quick and dirty paint scheme last week, but to re-cap: I sprayed chaos black, then leadbelcher, then painted on streaking grime and AK's Dark Brown enamel paint...


...then removed much of the paint with white spirit before highlighting the metal with Vallejo Silver.


The only differences this time around was that I pained the nozzle with Screaming Bell (a nice deep copper paint, which I love) before the weathering steps. 


Then the flames! The flames are a really cool aspect of these models, because they give a nice focal point to an otherwise quite monochromatic model. 


I feel like I paint flames differently each time I do them. Often I'll paint the whole thing yellow before adding further layers of orange and red towards the outer areas. The benefit of this is a nice bright flame over the yellow base tone, but the drawback is it takes MANY thin layers of yellow over a black undercoat to achieve that kind of brightness. So this time I painted the whole thing Doombull Brown (a nice warm red-brown) then repainted much of it orange (a mix of Yriel Yellow and Evil Sunz Scarlet, before dropping two coats of thinned Yriel Yellow into the recesses near the nozzle and painting Evil Sunz Scarlet and then thinned Abaddon Black where the dirty diesel fire wafts into smoke. 


Even with the added stage of painting the fire, these two neatly fit within the one-hour painting time with the two models last week. Pretty happy with that!

See you next week on The Art of Caesura!


Watching: Baking Impossible
Reading: Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson


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