Blackjack – Federated Suns, Ceti Hussars

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Scheme Reference

This miniature is based on the Ceti Hussars Partisan Heavy Tank featured in Camo Specs. It is not the blue scheme used for ceremonial occasions, but instead a combat scheme.

Artist Notes

Started with two light coats of grey, followed by blocking out and filling in all pattern elements in olive green. I then hit all olive green pattern with a second coat before getting into metallic areas, which I painted in grafite before covering them in metallic black. The few light metallic areas I used silver over the light grey base coat.

After these steps, I jeweled the cockpit using a matte black base, and then two light coats of celestial blue to form a gradient. Following, I painted in weapon lenses and some small maintenance decals and regimental crest/unit number on the legs.

Base is decorated using CA superglue and baking soda, colored with grafite and grey, with moss green for the coolant puddles.

Paints used:

  • Acrilex — Cinza 933 (Mate)
  • Acrilex — Verde Oliva 545 (Mate)
  • Acrilex — Grafite 530 (Mate)
  • Acrilex — Preto 520 (Metálica)
  • Aceilex — Prata 533 (Metálica)
  • Talento — RLM74 Graugrün 173
  • Acrilex — Preto 520 (Mate)
  • Acrilex — Azul Celeste 503 (Mate)
  • Acrilex — Verde Folha 510 (Mate)
  • Acrilex — Marrom 531 (Mate)
  • Acrilex — Verde Musgo 513 (Mate)
  • Acrilex — Branco 519 (Mate)
  • Acrilex — Vermelho Fogo 507 (Mate)