Stenciling the Blasta Bommer

So, I’ve been chipping away (hehe) at the paint job on the blasta bommer. I was almost finished with the initial outlining of the metallics when I realized I hadn’t added any larger painting details like the checks or glyphs so I decided to knock that out. And guess what? I made a tutorial for ya all!

This technique is pretty much identical to the Skyshield Landing pad demo I did a while back but not as complicated or clean. I make a large format stencil out of rows of masking tape for the larger area. I could have used frisking paper/plastic but I don’t have any on hand so when with what I did have.

I printed the glyph to scale, leaving a little bit of paper to keep the two parts together for tracing, easily filled in when penning the outline on the tape.

(sorry for the blur) Here I’ve trimmed out what will be the painted areas.

I CAREFULL lifted the tape stencil from the self-healing cutting mat. Take your time with this as masking tape tears easily, especially in thin areas. I use the original template to help align/place the interior mask parts.

Since I’ve already blacked out the metallics, I want to keep them from being painted so I went back and taped over the black areas with small cutout pieces of tape.

My first color is GW Rakarth Flesh, this simulates multiple layers of wear (from white). I’ll play things pretty loose around the outside edges to help push home the look of weathered paint. This is applied with a sponge, dabbed straight up and down to the model.

Next up is Ceramtie White, again, sponged on. This time I concentrated the paint in the middle areas so the Rakarth Flesh shows at the edges, underneath the white.

After the paint has dried, carefully peel off the masking tape.It’s not perfect and I’ll have to touch up some of the black areas before doing the metallics, but this is the nearly end result.

Now I’ve got some extra detail painted on to help break up the wide expanse of red. There’s going to be quite a bit of metallics when I’m done and I don’t want it to be tooo busy to the eye. I know ork’s is usually that way but I like people to be able to focus on it

I’ve cleaned up the black basing areas and just need to put down a one or two meatllics before wishing this beastie.