I coated the cockpit panes in Citadel Kabalite Green, then washed it in Citadel Coelia Greenshade. The cockpit was my final step, which turned out decently when you view it from a distance. For any 40k players out there….yes I play Space Wolves.
For this I used Citadel The Fang, Citadel Russ Grey, and Citadel Incubi Darkness (which I may repaint). I’d already done a patchwork urban-winter camo scheme on my Panther before, so this time I tried a stippled-on pattern of overlapping colors on the arms and legs of the machine. After that was dry I applied Vallejo Sepia Shade to the metal areas, giving a worn look that I really like. I coated all the weaponry and any blatantly “metal” areas with Citadel Warplock Bronze (the only Citadel metallic in the new line worth a damn) and then drybrushed it with old Citadel Boltgun Metal (still my chosen standard for metal colors). That in place, I touched up my shaded areas with more Gulliman Blue and began the next step. Building up from there, I spent several days applying an older Citadel Space Wolves Grey coat, which, as an older Citadel paint, has a much more even consistency, and covered the model beautifully with minimal brush stroke lines. I re-primed the model smooth white, and completely washed the model in Citadel Gulliman Blue glaze, which gave a very, very clean finish that bled into the nooks and crannies of the model, a perfect base shade. The consistency is terrible for large models, and after several attempts I gave up.Īfter some further planning, I decided on a purely Ghost Bears color scheme. However that didn’t pan out, after priming the model straight black I found that Games Workshop’s new Citadel paints are….bad. My initial idea was to do the model in a blue-grey urban camo scheme to match my Nighthawk PA(L) Battle Armor, planning to do a Rasalhague Dominion force of mixed Clan and IS technology.
I snagged this thing in a last minute bid for around $40 loose, while unopened, mint condition ones tend to go for around double that. The Wave 1 version came in a pure white paint scheme, representing the Mad Cat II from the Spirit Cats faction. As promised, I finished my 1/60 (ish) scale Mad Cat, an eBay find that started life as the Joyride Studios Mechwarrior: Dark Age toy line’s Wave 1 Mad Cat II (…long story short, Wizkids never did their Battletech homework).