Archvillain Game's Nautiloid Project

I had the pleasure of building and painting Archvillain Games' immense Nautiloid Space Ship. The absolute beast was hundreds of resin pieces, and three stories of model vehicle. Here are some photos from the 3 month long journey:

Printing and organizing the pieces

Lots of labeling, sanding, and prefitting pieces together. I organized most of it as I printed, so we went into build day with boxes labeled for each section of the ship. After prefitting all pieces, we started to glue sections together.

Assembley

After gluing each piece, we had to putty and sand so the joints could be as smooth as possible. For future builds, I would probably spend more time on this task, since the putty joints were visible in many areas of the final product. But, it still looks effective fully painted. I used a combination of a looser plastic putty and two part green stuff to fill the gaps. And for super glue, I used gorilla glue gel. I sand every joint before gluing and accelerate the curing process by dripping water on the glue connection.

The base was tricky because I didn't trust the size of base that I originally printed. So, I ended up printing two more half cylinders, and gluing them together at the bottom of the base and filling the cavity with sand to weigh it down. In the end, this proved effective and the model felt nice and sturdy. I also ended up having to paint the tentacles separately and then glue them on with long wooden dowels. They were troublesome, so in the future, I will probably use metal dowels on this build for the tentacles.

Then, Priming

I usually prime via airbrush and Vallejo paint on primer. But for this large a project, I used rustoleum camo black spray primer.

Then finally painting

For the outer shell, I airbrushed dark brownish black base coat. I Then spot airbrushed areas of color: orange, green, purple. Then, I drybrushed a series of greys increasing in lightness onto the shell.

For the flesh parts, I painted dark red, and slowly built up layers of red, pink, then flesh tone, and yellows. I did these parts with brush only so they would look more 'living' than the sprayed and dry brushed shell portion.