What is the VERY LAST thing you do?

[Extra Crispy]

I just finished up a German motorized infantry platoon and as I sat there doing the VERY LAST step, it got me wondering...what is the very last thing you do before a figure/unit is done (excluding spray with Dullcoat).

For me, I paint the edge of the bases an olive green. It sort of identifies the figure as mine (it's not a grass green). But it also tells my brain STOP! This one is done.

What do you do?

[BattlerBritain]

Dry brush mud all over it.

You can never have enough mud on a tank.

[pmskaar]

For me, once I have done all my other steps and after applying any decals, I will give my tanks and other vehicles a light coat of dust.

I do this this by running some really thinned down light tan paint through my airbrush. I do this fairly carefully since I don't want to obliterate all the other detail work that I did by making it too heavy.

Once this step is done, then I put on the dullcoat and when that is dry I pop it off the nail and call it done.

Pete

[kiasutha]

Such as I can (I wouldn't know how to use an airbrush if I had one), I do the stuff the other guys mentioned before the model goes on the base,
After the base is" flocked", I give the edge a coat of paint like you.
I use different green/gray/brown shades, usually depending on nationality.
Usually, The Very Last thing I do is give the base itself a clear coat.

[John Secker]

Basing - models go on a base (1" square steel) and it gets a coat of Basetex textured acrylic, green or sand. Then some other colours - mud or dark sand - and finally vegetation, flock, bits of scenery and we're done.

[pmskaar]

I forgot to mention in my previous post some things that I actually do after I apply the dullcoat.

1. For trucks and other vehicles with glass windows and headlights, I apply some acrylic gloss medium to give a bit of a shine to those areas.

2. For tanks and other tracked vehicles, I apply Humbrol Polished Steel to the end connectors and also to the "teeth" on the tracks.

3. Tow cables and MGs usually get some Humbrol Gunmetal to give them a hint of a sheen.

These 2 Humbrol colors go on flat and then you can "burnish" them to get the sheen. I usually do this pretty lightly so things are not too shiny.

Pete

[Hoth_902]

After over 100 vehicles with paint on them, I have never gotten to the finished stage to know what I do last.. Maybe this year. Since I moved into an apartment, I am limited in what I can do, so I might just have to be content doing the final details at the dinning room table.

[zaevor2000]

For me putting the unit label on is kind of like putting the cherry on top.

It's like giving it a stamp of approval when you glue the label on.

Kind of like...you see what it is, and now with the label you know what it is.



Frank

[paul]

Two coats of dullcoat to protect the minis

[Ranger257]

Remember it was the other unit I needed to paint for tomorrow's game and smack myself that's how I know I am done.