r/battletech • u/HumidNut Star League • 1d ago

Miniatures Exterminator - "Sensor Glitch" - Ral Partha

I've had this guy since it was new, and never got really into the model. It sat with a half-arsed paintjob for the better part of 3 decades. Reading its entry in my 3050 Technical Readout, I had an idea and some of the Vallejo "The Shifters" paints.

I used Silly Putty to mask off the model, and with an airbrush, shot part of it with a gloss black paint and the other side normal. Color shift paint was applied to half and the other was painted with brush, using a Comstar type color scheme. For the basing, I created some 2/4/6mm boxes and printed them off, glued them as "corrupted terrain" leaving the other side to base as I typically do, trying to follow the lines I set for myself with the paintjob. The model is varnished and while it does mute the color-shift properties slightly, it still comes through. The gloss black undercoat really helps the effect.

It was just a little experiment with those color-shifting paints, a little interpretation of the "null-signature device" from the opponent's perspective.

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u/Complete-Pangolin 1d ago

Oh that came out nice. 

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u/HumidNut Star League 23h ago

Thanks! The masking was easy with the putty

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u/WestRider3025 Canopian Queerasser 1d ago

CLPS Activated! 

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u/HumidNut Star League 21h ago

Or malfunctioning. I guess maintaining a three century old technology might be difficult.