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Made a paint for The Forged. It was a rather simple one, but i think it came out pretty well. Also, made me realise that i'd want to do a bunch of gear for them after I'm finished with the gun. I always liked their backstory that made them somewhat stand out from other Commonwealth raiders, and so it would be cool if they stood out visually. Think like strong The Pitt vibes, but with more forge/smelting themed items.
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This diagonal pattern would be fairly easy to do with painters tape, or even duct tape as a replacement - all a raider would need is paintbrush, some duct tape and 10 minutes.
When doing paintjobs, I am trying to think through how that particular paintjob would be done, and use brushes accordingly. Gunners or Forged are somewhat more organized and disciplined, so their paintjobs are more likely to have stenciled look to them.
Operators, who care about looks more than your average raider, would have some more intricate designs in their paintjob, which has some floral pattern scratched into the paint on some parts of the receiver.
Then you have the Pack and Pickman, whose paintjobs I imagine being actually painted in some sort of trance (drug-infused maybe) - those are done with a paintbrush, and they're supposed to look as something relatively complex to paint, but less consistent in terms of even paint spread.
Disciples are somewhat in-between, with same inconsistencies in paint spread as previous two, but much simpler painting scheme - cause imo out of Nuka World three they care about looks the least, and in their free time they are much more likely to kill and torture someone than sit there and invent some complex painting scheme.
Hot Rod paintjobs, being unlocked via magazines, I'd imagine as a set of stencils, provided in that each magazine in 1/10th or some similar scale, and a bunch of instructions on applying them, so initially you were supposed to scale them up for painting your car - and when painting a weapon, you could take it as provided.
Then you have the Scavengers - it just has a really rusty look, and it's not even painted properly - it's just a bunch of parts from different sources welded together, with little to no care if the piece was painted or not - so some pieces have their initial paint, others are unpainted, but all have considerable amount of rust and dirt an top.
You can hold me to that!
But yeah, they have a lot of enrealised potential to them. Who knows, maybe I'll be able to get into that after all. :)