Sci fi Humans

[nikharwood]

To fight my tripods...




Spray black undercoat, bases painted with thinned Leather Brown:


Basecoat: Khaki






Highlight: Khaki + Bleached Bone:






I forgot to take pics as I painted...

Camo: Earth [& thinned inner highlight]; Hawk Turquoise [& thinned inner highlight]; detailing on troopers - Earth + highhlight; White; Black + Bleached Bone:






Bases drybrushed Desert Yellow & Magic Washed:








































Completed pics here: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4070.0.html

[Luddite]

Top stuff as ever Nik.

Couple of questions:

What infatry did you use ? (i recognise the armoured chaps but not the others)

Which code is the tank with the 'bow wave' thing on the front?

[Steve J]

Very effective .

[Arsenus]

Very very cool!

[nikharwood]

Thanks guys  

What infatry did you use ? (i recognise the armoured chaps but not the others)

Which code is the tank with the 'bow wave' thing on the front?

The 'normal' infantry is SF32 Troopers; the others are SF1 Marine in Battle Armour

Armour: with the "bow wave" thing is SF8 Hovertank type 2 [I think!] & the heavier tank is SF7 Hovertank type 1...

For completeness, the vehicles on the command stands are SF6 APC; the three walkers are SF9 Walker & the one heavier one is SF10 Dreadnought walking gun platform



Oh - and these are for Future War Commander - and I'm using the GZG - DS Human list:
CO
HQ
3 x Infantry: NAC Armoured Infantry [troopers]
2 x Infantry: NAC Power Armour [marines in battle armour]
3 x Tank Unit (Gladiator) ["bow wave tank"]
3 x tank Unit (Goliath) [heavy tank]
3 x Walker Unit (AT-71 Hound Dog)
1 x Walker Unit (Pkz VII Sturmkampfer)

[Steve J]

The SF9 Walker model is very nice .

[Luddite]

Cheers Nik.

I've got a bunch of most of the sci-fi codes but not the 'bow wave' tank.  Very nice model.

With Tomorrow's War winging its way to me i'm looking at where i'll be taking my sci-fi gaming...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great one Nik, nicely different stuff, light blue on yellow is always a clasic scheme! Love the visior detail, just awe inspiring! 

How long did it take to paint this batch and don't say "Took about the same time as it took you to read about them!!"?   

[Leon]

Excellent, very nice!  And another handy thread to point folk to for pics!   

[jchaos79]

great cammo! I love that project

[nikharwood]

Thanks guys - glad you like 'em...to be honest, I painted the first vehicle (APC on the CO stand) with black & white camo detail [after the Khaki & Earth] a la "Chocolate Chip" US camo from a few years ago...but (funnily enough) it looked like US camo from a few years ago - and not sci-fi enough...so I reached for the blue - but wanted a different blue from the blue I used on my WW2 8th Army camo - so Hawk Turquoise it was!

Time-to-paint: dunno really, wasn't timing it as there was loads going on round here on Saturday when I did them - maybe 2 - 2.5 hours or so? Something like that, but I wasn't rushing...

The visor detail on the Troopers: yep, my previous version of these (Recce troops in my Colonial Marine force) have flesh - I wanted these guys to have face protection from the sand-blasted wastes they're in - so they got grey / white hockey-masks...and the blue visors on the Battle Armour troops was obvious to do really - looks great & ties them simply in to the colour scheme of the whole force.

[Kassad]

Very nice army. I like camouflage pattern. Good work!!

[Luddite]

Are the stars on the infantry hand painted or transfers Nik? 

Either way, they're insanely tiny!

[nikharwood]

Are the stars on the infantry hand painted or transfers Nik? 

Either way, they're insanely tiny!

Hehehe - I'd love to tell you that I painted them...but they're transfers from a set I got years ago which has scales from 15mm downwards...believe it or not, these stars weren't the smallest! Not sure who did 'em though...maybe from Dom's Decals? I had plain red stars which went on the shoulder pad of troops & then a white-surrounded red star which I put on the back of each "squad leader"