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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Taffydude on 10 March 2011, 07:43:50 PM
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Hi folks. I have recently been tidying up my loft, and came across a tub of (badly) painted minis that I've had for ages. So after stripping them, I was left with a bowl of lead :)
(http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae35/Taffydude/Minis/lead01.jpg)
I think that they might have been the originals for the em4 / copplestone range of future soldiers, as they are from the mid to late 90's and the only marks on them are a G
(http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae35/Taffydude/Minis/g.jpg)
I even found some old WEG Star Wars bounty hunter minis in there :)
(http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae35/Taffydude/Minis/boba.jpg)
Anyways, enough of the backstory. I thought I'd try painting the troopers in a desert scheme, and I'm at a point where I'm happy with the test subject, and I'm not sure I want to enhance it with camouflage. What do you guys think?
(http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae35/Taffydude/Minis/trooper01.jpg)
(http://i955.photobucket.com/albums/ae35/Taffydude/Minis/trooper02.jpg)
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Yup.... without a doubt Grenadier's "Future Warriors" line by Copplestone, now produced by eM4.
I say go for camo. Even once shaded, the colors of the BDU's and the armor are too similar. Put some dark brown stripes on one of them (BDU's or armor/helmet but not both) to distinguish the two. JMO.
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agree: some camo on the cloth and flat colour on the armor!
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French style camo
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Really dig that scheme so far.
I like it sans camo!
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What ever you do the sculpts carry it off. If you camo both, you'll get colonial marines, reflective green armour and camo'd fatigues you get halo USNC marines, desert camo on the BDU's would work well.
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What ever you do the sculpts carry it off. If you camo both, you'll get colonial marines, reflective green armour and camo'd fatigues you get halo USNC marines, desert camo on the BDU's would work well.
I know you've said similar before Commander, and it still holds true.
These sculpts have aged well. They still look as fresh and current as they did 10 years ago.
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I know you've said similar before Commander, and it still holds true.
These sculpts have aged well. They still look as fresh and current as they did 10 years ago.
Yeah I know, the whole range has worn well, and the price that Doug charges is very very reasonable.
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I often prefer non-camo schemes because sometimes camo swallows detail on the figure. I say its great the way it is-no camo!
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The non-camo version looks nice, but I think it is a bit bland. Paint some camo in, but don't go overboard. Maybe just the armour or the BDU.
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Yeah, I was thinking of doing one or the other on the camo. Doing it on the armour and cloth would just clutter it up. Unfortunately it'll be a few days before I post an update, due to work stuff getting in the way :'(
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I think with your crisp style, they look quite nice as is. Why add camo to such a nice looking mini?
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I think with your crisp style, they look quite nice as is. Why add camo to such a nice looking mini?
I agree, they have that professional, "I don't need no stinking camo" don't mess with me look.
Prof
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Urban/Night Camo Troopers (http://www.madlabkreations.com/minis01.html)
The pic are dark and poor quality, but if you scroll down a bit, you'll find examples of these same figures painted in night/urban camo. You're a much better painter than I am so you'll undoubtedly do a much better job of it than I did.
Hrothgar is right though. Camo schemes often do "swallow" detail.
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Troopers painted as Colonial Marines (http://dawnofthelead.com/2010/07/23/five-by-five/)
And above is an example of those troopers (as well as some similar ones from Copplestone Castings) painted up as Colonial Marines with camo for both the armour and the BDU.
Oh and nice work sykoholic, like the choice of colour scheme there!
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I really like the colours as they are. It's clearly a desert colour scheme and it has a very clean look, I like it. Doing camo will probably look good but not necessarily better and it will be more work.
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It's lovely as is, only problem is he looks a tad lonely, get his squad done. :D
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paint the camo in a desert digital camo
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paint the camo in a desert digital camo
lol
digital camo is ubercool. however on that scale I just don't see it happen.
anyone know of any 28mm's with digi camo painted on them ?
i'd really love to see that result.
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a fast google search come with this http://frozengamerak.blogspot.com/2011/02/painting-digital-camp.html (http://frozengamerak.blogspot.com/2011/02/painting-digital-camp.html)
i meant for the armour and maybe a little more like this
http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/modern/chieftainmk9cim_1.html (http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/modern/chieftainmk9cim_1.html)
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a fast google search come with this http://frozengamerak.blogspot.com/2011/02/painting-digital-camp.html (http://frozengamerak.blogspot.com/2011/02/painting-digital-camp.html)
i meant for the armour and maybe a little more like this
http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/modern/chieftainmk9cim_1.html (http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/modern/chieftainmk9cim_1.html)
I stand corrected. it does seem possible to paint digital camo on a 28mm.
As for the berlin camo. don't get me started. i'm trying this on my 15mm grav-tanks (recce)
for the heavy tanks and APCs I'm leaning towards KMW's presentational camo scheme :
http://www.kmweg.de/11174--~PRODUKTE~radfahrzeuge~f2~f2.html (http://www.kmweg.de/11174--~PRODUKTE~radfahrzeuge~f2~f2.html)
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that camo on the fennek would be awsome on your figures armour
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My vote is for no camo. Looks great as is. Next to the Pig Iron System troopers, Copplestone's Future War troops are my favorite SF range. My only suggestion would be to do the helmet the same color as the armor.