Painting the Maschinen Krieger Archelon

While I do really love building, painting, and weathering Maschinen Krieger models, there's one aspect of them I don't like... pronouncing the names of some of them. Now, a few are easy... Gladiator, for example. It's named after that movie. (I think.) Or SAFS... although that is fun to say it as a word... like it rhymes with "laughs". But others confound me. Read the rest of this blog: https://jonbius.com/2026/06/06/wave-m... 0:00 Turtle... turtle turtle 0:56 Completely erroneous lore that needs angry comments (and some assembly notes) 3:31 Texturing 6:02 Priming talk 6:32 Base paints 7:37 Painting the hand. YES THE HAND. And other stuff. 8:11 Painting the camo 8:54 Markings (with stupid effects) 9:40 Overpainting decals 10:18 Shout out to ‪@PaintonPlastic‬ 11:07 Stressing the camo color 11:31 Rusting up the engine part 14:10 More painting of THE HAND. 15:26 Finishing up (early) Paints Mr. Hobby Mr. Surfacer 500 Badger Stynlrez Primer Red Brown Primer Vallejo Model Air Light Gray Green RLM02 Black Gray RLM 66 Orange Rust Vallejo Model Color Sky Gray Sky Blue Blue Gray Pale Neutral Gray MicroMark Acrylics Charcoal Medium Gray Vallejo Game Color Steel Gray Chain Mail Black Wash Citadel Shades Targor Rageshade Fuegan Orange Agrax Earthshade