Some More 40k-ed Firearms From Tonight's Stream

Some more 40k-ed firearms from tonight's stream

No-plan doodling stream complete (with timelapse)

Time for a hellpistol to provide a bit more firepower (from the same forgeworld as the laspistol)

I'm not glueing any of the small details on until after the first coat of filler primer, to make access easier for sanding

Another tip - put some body filler on the areas that show the most layer stepping and sand it down before the filler primer. I'm sure I'll be adding some more filler, but it's good to get the worst areas a bit tidied up first

Step 1 - green basecoat for the body trying with an airbrush, followed by a drybrush highlight

Step 2 - mask off the large metal areas for a coat of gloss black primer, followed by gunmetal.

Drybrush highlight with the masking still in place, then peel in preparation for brush-painting the other details.

Big pieces got another coat of filler primer, then a final sanding and assembly

Once everything was glued together, a final light coat of filler primer to fill any sanding marks

Then a coat of light grey primer, followed by black primer (using an airbrush) and then the nooks and crannies got primed with a paintbrush.

Once the painting was finished, everything got a coat of satin varnish to seal it before weathering. OR THAT WAS THE PLAN

Spoiler: It turns out I didn't use enough varnish...

...so when I tried to wipe away the excess oil paint I was using for weathering, I ended up taking the varnish off as well 🙃 In some places, when I used IPA I ended up taking the paint off down to the primer 🤦‍♂️🙃🤦‍♂️

By being gentle with the q-tips and kitchen towel (and some careful reapplication of paint where needed), I was able to get it to a presentable, if rather heavily engrimed, state. Before anything else went wrong, I gave the whole thing a much heavier coat of varnish and called it a day