Dedicated to Airbrush 3: Imperial Knight

Large models used to take a long time to paint, especially if you were using a color that didn't coat in one go.  Not with the airbrush.  I painted the Imperial Knight (seen below) in 5 days.  This model was also painted in parts.  The main infrastructure piece (stuff painted raw metal) was assembled but the individual armor panels were separate and unattached.  I learned a couple of lessons on this project.  First; the metallic air brush paints from Vallejo are magic and coat extremely well.  The boltgun coated the frame in two easy coats and took less than 10 minutes to complete.  Second, I learned how to paint checkerboards with tape masking (as opposed to a template).  Its actually a two part process where you have to lay a grid that paints every other box.  Unfortunately I didn't take any work-in-process photos.  See if you can figure out why it can't be done in one go :-)
In case you were wondering; the banner between his legs is actually a decal.