Sedition Wars (picture heavy) - closeups added

[Momotaro]

This is a bit of a teaser - I'll get better pics of all the models this week.

So I did this lot in two weeks, working weekends and evenings on them.  My aim was to get the figures to a tabletop standard, rather than spend a couple of hours on each mini.  A lot of washing, a bit of drybrushing, and simple colour schemes made it easier to do.

So the Vanguard Marines got a base colour, a wash, a several drybrushes, then a final thin black wash to blend the colours back in.  Last of all, I painted in the details - visors, guns, faces and hair.

The strain models got a wash of flesh, then old GW red wash, then old purplewash thinned.  The blue for the carapace I mixed with iridescent medium, washed over with a thinned deep blue, then gave a light drybrush over with silver.

The Revenant Strain (technozombies) got some splotches of various colours, some nice pustules added, then the tubes and bits of carapace done in the same blue as the bigger models.

I finished the Strain models with the tattered remnants of clothing, teeth, glowy bits and weapons.

I think the secret is to get a production line going - if you can do a wash on 40 figures, it goes very quickly.  Also, i alternated between doing something on the Strain, then something on the Marines while the monsters were drying.

Will they win any prizes?  No.  Are they OK to look at and nice to play with?  Yeah...

I was still finding and cleaning mould lines on them right up to the end though  

The Vanguard characters are missing from these shots - I finished them last night after these photos were taken:

[palaeomerus]

Nice biohazard ya got there!

[bandit86]

look pretty dam good to me

[manic _miner]

 Nice looking miniatures.

[Andrew May]

I'll look forward to seeing those strain figures up close. They look like a real headache to paint but from a distance those look pretty effective.

[Dentatus]

Whoa!     Nice job. One of these days...

[Momotaro]

I'll look forward to seeing those strain figures up close. They look like a real headache to paint but from a distance those look pretty effective.

When I do get the pics up, you'll see that the scaly blue bits are the weakest part of the painting on the Strain set.  I'd usually build up the colour on the scales with multiple layers rather than just a drybrush.  I still have the option to come back to them later.

For pretties to push around a tabletop though, they're OK.

[Momotaro]

Kara Black, Barker Zosa, Morgan Vade, Akosha Nama:

[Momotaro]

Hurley the drone tank

[Gibby]

Fantastic! Easily above what I would produce if I went for "gaming standard."

[Momotaro]

Vanguard troopers and Reaver

[Momotaro]

More Vanguard - grenadier and lancer this time:

[Momotaro]

Strain now - the Cthonian first

[Momotaro]

Grendlr

[Momotaro]

Getting there now - Scythe Witch