Cars and Badass Women ...



Firstly, a start has been made on a commission of vehicles and figures all with a cyberpunk/neo-noir theme to them. The blog will be seeing more of those in future posts, as well as some beautiful old figures from Ral-Partha.

Starting out with the smaller cars first, with one down and two to go. I aiming to make each a little different, not just going for plain colours. I broke the red bodywork up with some off-white panels and went for a two-tone blend on the purple, the green may get some racing stripes(?).
One slight snag I hit was the chrome detailing. I had a couple of options in mind: standard acrylic silver metalics, which wouldn't have looked too bad, but, ideally, a closer-to-chrome look was the aim. So I ordered a bottle of AK Extreme Metalics Chrome, and while it looked better I thought I'd try a chrome marker by Molow. It's seen it used by Adam Savage on one of his projects and it looked impressive. Anyway, long story short, it (for me) was the best of the lot. I may go back and add a little dark tone in the recesses, but I like the heavier, brighter ticking it has.







Other than the cars, I also finished the other figures from Bad Squiddo; the mercenary and the Action Heroine, plus a Samurai from Black Scorpion and a smart Alien Trooper from CP Models.











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