vlog 25-08: Warhammer 40K Vindicator Siege Tank – Base Painting

Warhammer 40K has a load of factions to choose from, and each of those factions has their own color schemes. While I love building the models, I’m not a 40K player at all. So I don’t get locked into “my faction”, but tend to drift more towards “what color do I want to paint this one?”

Thus I don’t think “Blood Angels”, “Dark Angels”, “Imperial Fists”, or “The Indianapolis Colts“, but rather red, green, yellow, and blue. (See what I did there…? 🤪)

Of course, I know the faction names for the bigger space marine chapters. Yet it comes down to “how would it look to paint it such-and-such a color and then over-weather it?”

I’d initially settled on Imperial Fists (yellow), or Salamanders (other green), as I love over-weathering both of those. But a conversation with a friend altered the direction of my thinking.

He’d asked “why not Iron Warriors”? (Or something to that effect.) And the idea intrigued me. The appeal of the Iron Warriors (aside from the cool name) was that their stuff wasn’t painted, per se. It was just metal. With black and yellow hazard stripes.

Which is very appropriate because nothing says “beware” like hazard stripes. Especially when plastered on the front of a giant tank with a cannon big enough to lob three circus clowns a good distance. With accuracy.

And the bonus was that I’d never taken on a project (or at least that I could recall) that focused on over-weathering a plain metal object. (And its hazard stripes.) There’s all sorts of win there, at least if you are an old, balding, overweight guy who still plays with plastic army toys. Which I are. Is. Am. Whatever.

So here’s a way to paint something to look like a giant metal shooty-boom-boom box of hazard stripes.