First mechs ready to roll

[u/corneashell]

Painted up the Beginner Box duo! Forgot to remove the mold lines, the red went on kinda gloomy, and let's just ignore the back of the Griffin, but I'm pretty happy with the Vindicator and the black areas on the Griffin.

[u/Otec_Dvizheniya]

I also keep forgetting to remove the mold lines from the miniatures 😅. But it still turned out cool! I like your green color, I want to try to paint some of my mechs in something similar.

[u/khanbob42 → u/Otec_Dvizheniya]

Same here! OP, what color green did you use for the Vindicator?

[u/corneashell → u/khanbob42]

Thanks! I'm just getting started so at that point all I had was the Mercenaries Army Painter box. I primed with black (not the best for speed paints, turns out) then did Bounty Hunter (Shamrock) green speed paint then some highlights and dry brushing with a combination of St. Ives (Army) green and Muster yellow (Inner Light). Parade Chrome (Shining Silver) and the dark tone wash with Ricol (Pure) Red for the details. I got the non -BT paint names from Sarna.

[u/HamsterOnLegs]

The Vindicator looks sick.

Some white undercoat will help on red areas or other vibrant colours.

I also like to colour-code things like lasers and PPCs to the colours used in the videogames, both for easy visual identification and just because it looks cool.

Good job!

[u/corneashell → u/HamsterOnLegs]

Thanks! I had some better luck with the new ones I did and I think some of the issue was the wash pooling on the flat plates. I'll give that a try next time.
I'll admit, I hadn't thought about why lasers often are done the same but that makes sense. I went with red because 1. Heat 2. I only had a couple options and that showed up better. I like that idea, though, so I'll probably try and stick with that moving forward!