Rust Captain — Paint Work / AfterCore Protocol

The official Rustborn palette starts here. Burnt orange for the armor sections, military green for the coat — the two colors that define the faction's visual identity across the entire militia.
The approach is oil-based in logic, if not in medium. The orange shadows are pulled toward cobalt green rather than neutral darks — a chromatic tension that keeps the warm tones alive without flattening them. The greens are desaturated deliberately, pushed toward dust and weathering rather than saturation. Rust and grime are not weathering effects added at the end — they are built into the value structure from the base layers.
This 75mm version is painted by me personally. The scale allows decisions that wouldn't survive at 32mm — color temperature shifts in fabric folds, oxidation gradients on the metal components.
AfterCore Protocol launches soon on MyMiniFactory Frontiers. https://www.myminifactory.com/users/TheArtifactSmiths