River craft for TheScene 15mm Sci-fi

Had an awesome day at Warfare yesterday; spent way too much money! Brought back some river craft for Mike at The Scene, to be tarted up before they go back into the display. I also bought a load of mercenaries on Jet bikes and two hovercraft from the same.

Anyhow, here's a step-by-step

Stage 1) Mike applied a 3-colour scheme camo.  My first job is to highlight the centre of each colour.. The craft on the left has had a tan wash applied to the centre of each brown spot.

Stage 2) Next, the light green is highlighted. The craft on the right has now received the tan highlight, but using a thinner application for a softer effect.

Stage 3) All the craft have  recieved the tan and light green highlights; now the craft in the centre recieved a mid-green highlight to the previous dark green areas. The floor bottoms of the bows get a coat of dark grey.It's taken about an hour so far..

Stage 4) The rudders are painted various shades of grey and green , looking for a good colour to help define the model. The stowage is blacked out and the barrels in the left-most craft are given a coat of leaf-green.

Stage 5) The craft are given a   thin wash of black in all the crevices, around details and in shadows.

Stage 6) The craft are given highlights along all edges and on all details using a pale pastel green. This is complete after 3 hours.

Stage 7) The  stowage is painted in various single colours so as to stand-out from and help define the craft.

Stage 8) The craft are painted in gloss varnish before some hazard markings are added to clean up and define some weak areas. These are painted over  decals to keep the hand- painted appearance. There also some danger markings on the sterns and some very-hard-to-see bio-hazard markings on the oil drums. 4 1/2 hours into the project.

Stage 9) Finally, at 5 hours from start, the final codes are added to the craft from decals and the project is finished. I hope Mike likes them!

 Thanks for looking.