My plan is to start dark at the feet and slowly mix the two together to bring the brighter colors out near his face, the focal point of the model. Since this is going to be the main color for the paint job, I pick out a pair of similar colors: Thornwood Green and Battledress Green.
A military prototype that had been abandoned and forgotten within the jungle before being repurposed and retrofitted by the Empire of the Apes.Īs such, of course we need a green of some sort-a remnant of the old school of thought in military paint schemes from before they realized that they might as well make it whatever color they want, since they’re not hiding the fifteen-story robot any time soon. In my imagination, this Defender X is old. Once I’ve got that prep work done, I start looking at a color scheme. So, we get our primed Defender X and immediately decide that we have a plan for later on and cover it all in a base coat of Cold Steel. I’m just a guy that thinks monkeys are cool. Let me start off by getting it out of the way: I’m not a studio painter, a prize winner, or anything of the sort. With excitement lit in me once again, I picked up my Defender X that I had been neglecting. If every list has an Ape, then why not just theme my list around them? While that’s unsurprising news to me-my very first possession was a stuffed silverback gorilla that I still have to this day-it was enlightening. So, I took a look at my lists, and something stood out to me. It was clear I was going to have to get creative. That joy of playing something that I felt a true connection with. I wanted a strong, solid group of units and monsters, but everything I did wasn’t quite clicking with me on that higher level. So, when I approached MonPoc, I agonized over my list. While each Faction has an internal cohesion, using the same design language and shapes within the confines of their Faction models, their external cohesion among their Agenda can be spotty. Building a list for Monsterpocalypse can pose a problem for a player like me. To field an army that’s painted and modeled in such a way as to make each unit look like they belong next to one another with my head cannon firing away. See, I’m the type of person that likes to put together a list that’s narratively and visually cohesive. Now that I’ve made Stage Managers everywhere cry, let me roll the tape back a bit to explain myself. Syllables of divinity that offer you the means to slam demigods into that previously toppled skyscraper and the one next to it. To let you taste on your tongue a single sentence that promises the power to topple skyscrapers.