Dreadball - Corporation - Jacks WIP

So the pictures this week are a perfect illustration of what I meant in my introductory post.

Over the last week, I have been working on my Dreadball Corporation team.  I've been broadly following the "official" paint scheme of the Trontek 29ers but with a couple of twists.

1. Mine are a bit more beat up
2. My center plates (not yet done) will have different colours to make it easier to differentiate between strikers, jacks and guards.

In terms of how I did these, I first painted them with a metallic silver paint (1:1 mix of Reapers Honed Steel and Polished Silver).  Then I hit them with a black wash to get the cracks dark and bring the details out.  Then I dry brushed them with Polished Silver.  The dry brush gets the armour looking scratched and beat up.

Primarily, I wanted a beat up look to match the "story" in my mind.  I intend to use these in a league where Dreadball has been off the air for several years due to an unnamed event several years ago.  As a result, the once proud Trontek 29ers are now looking a bit more beat up than in the past due to several years under-funding.

After drybrushing, I then hit the main armour plates with thinned Polished Silver as I didn't want the armour to look too scratched.

My Trontek 29er Jacks

As mentioned above, these models have been in this close-to-finished state all week as I haven't done much painting.  With that said, the only outstanding I want to do is paint in the center disc (currently white in the below close-up).

Hopefully, next week, I will be able to show the finished Jacks.

Close to completion