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Question was asked on a painting thread this week: Masking fluid sucks, what can you use instead that's reusable and won't ruin paint or be a huge problem to get off?

The answer is Silly Putty, y'all. Easy to get, easy to use, and reusable for quite a while before the paint mixed into it makes it less useful.

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While the monthly thread was looking for a mini to paint for february, I mentioned that I had just gotten my my printer going again, but the thread would be competing with Battletech, and somehow that snowballed into the whole thread painting Catapults, because it's one of the great battletech originals.

Anyway here's eye of the tiger. Cyclist rescued from a misprint of infantry.

A photo of a Catapult battlemech, posed on a two tier hex hill from one of the Hextech sample packs. The mech is on one of my battletech hex bases, wooden rather than plastic or resin, with straight sides instead of sloped, and from this angle only the black with green on each side, designating the front, can be seen. The base itself is brown ground paste, which only shows in a narrow path between two areas of light yellow-brown grass, with a slightly lighter center where the ground has dried without its cover. On that path rides a mechanized infantryman on a motorcycle, daringly jetting between the legs of the catapult on his camouflage green bike, in extremely dark, shadowed blue uniform and gas mask. The mech itself has been painted entirely in shades of fluorescent orange, more reddish in the shadows, more yellow in the lit areas, with perfectly black tiger stripes painted across every surface except the inside of the missile launcher covers. The holes for the missiles are black, with the pattern obscured by black tigerstripes painted across the surface as well. There are four lasers, two on each side of the torso, lit light blue to contrast with the orange mech, but details of the mech are extremely difficult to see due to the camo pattern.
The rear view of the same shot, showing the top of the missile launchers, including the tiger stripes across the outside of the launcher covers, which are currently raised in firing position. From this angle, a small clump of dirt being thrown up as the bike leans into a turn can be seen, as well as the red and yellow sides for the rear and sides of the mech.
The same mech, a photo of it inside a UV curing chamber. The motorcycle and rider are even darker, as the shadows are more harsh and the UV is causing the fluorescent orange paint to glow brightly.
The same glowing shot, but from the rear, and slightly lower. It is possible to see a slight reflection of the fluorescence in the motorcycle and rider from this angle, as it's better for bouncing off the inner leg onto the tiny figure.
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I screwed up yesterday trying to get the cockpit windows done, and it wasn't fixable, so I threw it into... THE DIP.

Today, it took me 1:45 to re-prime, base coat, stripe, and then do the lasers and some very dilute wash in the missile ports, plus the sides of the hex base.

Later tonight, I'll start basing, and call it done. The cockpit isn't defined enough to bother.

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