Guijia This big guy has to be my favorite tag. My other big project in 2020 was my IA and I worked on a 2nd wave of these guys in October and November at a steady pace beginning with this guy. I think my painting queue had become unintentionally too big by the end of the year and I was falling in to a bit of painting fatigue (as well as Covid lockdown fatigue). So it took a bit of mental effort to keep things going. With that in mind I started my IA wave 2 on the biggest, baddest model to reignite my painting enthusiasm, instead of leaving the big one till last. I really got a kick out of altering the freehand to fit in with my Blue Banner themed army. I also loved working the black metal parts. However I was most satisfied doing the lighting and blending on the yellow/orange armour panels. So much so that I couldn't bear to to scar them with deep battle damage and only did paint chips to the freehand unit markings. I have to admit that painting fatigue and massive queue pla
