Trust in your War Gear!

Like any good rugged space marine/rebel Army Mans painter you're only as good as your war gear and with the crazy amount of work facing me it was time for an upgrade... or a lateral move depending on how you look at it.

So I took my Rhino transport down to my local Game Kastle...by the way these Warhammer 40k references doing anything for you?... no? Anyway, since I have so many minis to paint , I picked up THIS:

BEHOLD The Citadel Spray Gun! Sure your standard beginner airbrush is 6 dollars cheaper but it doesn't look like a GUN now does it? It looks like some little girlie quill from 17gofuckyourself30.


Here is the instrument of destruction and all it's parts. And if you have a keen eye you'll spot it's first victim, an Ultramarine Terminator.


I couldn't find official Citadel brand propellant so I had to use this one... which is manufactured by badgers, or so it would seem. Sort of a delightful little mental picture when you think about it.



It's raining outside so I had to conceive of a way to do my spray gunning indoors. Luckily for me, my lovely wife had done some air brush work in culinary school and she suggested I use a large Tupperware container placed on it's side. Let me tell you, this is a great way to work without ruining everything around your tiny little Army Mans.



I didn't want everything covered in a coat of the Mordian Blue so I used blue painters masking tape for "delicate surfaces" to mask off some of the large parts I wanted to keep black. Now before you say anything, I thought the fingers of the power fist were supposed to be metallic... but I turns out they are blue like the rest of the damn thing. Too bad I found this out AFTER I put the gun away.
Oh well!



Now, the guns in all the product pictures I've seen the spray gun is black, but I imagine they changed it for distribution in the US because there's that law about tiny "realistic" looking flame throwers, you know the one.


And here is the result! A super smooth super even coat of base color. It's so nice I don't even think I'll need a top coat.

Here he is after I added the rest of the blue by hand, The whole process only took about 20 mins!

ARMY MANS!