{"id":2240,"date":"2025-08-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/?post_type=miniature&#038;p=2240"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:17:40","slug":"black-python-davion-guards","status":"publish","type":"miniature","link":"https:\/\/jakeskelcher.ca\/mpustaging\/?miniature=black-python-davion-guards","title":{"rendered":"Black Python &#8211; Davion Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Color Reference<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Royal Brigade makes use of a blue, white and red striped scheme, the colors of the Davion family.<\/p>\n<cite>Field Manual: Federated Suns<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Artists Notes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The colors that I have used here for the Davion Guards are the Kurita Red over a light red for the center red stripe, white is the primer white, thinned and applied via an airbrush, and the blue is Army Painter Crystal Blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weapons, Heat sinks, and other metal components are done using Vallejo Air Color Gunmetal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I then applied a gloss clearcoat and applied an AK Interactive Black Wash over the entire mini that was thinned with Airbrush flow improver. 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