I have always felt that the Doomsday Machine was more than just a machine, more like a lving machine if you will. This is what led to the paint job shoen in the links below. In order to provide a contrast against the ships that will be fighting it... the Klingons are light grey, the Gorns are dark grey, the Federation ships are light or grey - I decided to give it a purple-ish base color. I thing high-lighted, washed, and high-lighted again to acheive a somewhat multi-layered effect. I then painted the "veins" (for lack of a better word) in a lighter shade of purple and continued painting them with finer strokes and lighter highlights until I was finally used pure white paint.
The "maw" was first painted white, then purple at the edges, blended into red - into orange- into yellow- into white. This was doen using the same acrylic blending-gel that I use for blending the cat-like colors on my Lyrans.
Overall, I'm quite pleased with the results. Take a look at the photos on my website and offer comments or suggestions...
Planet Killer 01
Planet Killer 02
Planet Killer 03
