a bit late with my next post, but I was doing a little of everything and I've ended up with nothing to show. I've painted TAG's SAS without packs . I've decided to call them The Phantom group (after watching Young Indiana's Jones Chronicles epizode Phantom train :P). In my story, those are special forces soldiers, who, after the apocalypse, took over recon missions. They operate around the safe places that are still run by the government. My certain team is obviously on a short mission, as they got no packs (yes, I wanted to buy minies without packs and yes, I'd buy those with biggest backpacks if I could pick again :P). I've painted them in urban uniform with olive drab equipemnt, as I did it with Grom. The cammo gave me quite some trouble as those minies have bigger surfaces than just the pants of Grom. I think I made too big blobs of white and german grey (not black!), will fix it next time. Their scarves were painted as usual arabic ones...didn't knew what else would I want to do. I might add everyone has its own colour, we got black, red, green, blue strips). Lets take a closer look...
What is cool about those minies, is the IDEA of the face paint. It, however, didn't work. There is something that bothers me, but I can't really define what excatly...its just wrong. Here's a close up of probably the best attempt:
Well, thats ALMOST it for today. Because I also have to show you this cool freebie Pete at TAG's sent me as part of his facebook thingie:
Thanks for looking,
Mathyoo
Good camo mate! I do not think the white is too much.
ReplyDeleteLove the mini! He would work perfectly for the zombocalypse!!!
Camo looks great. I wouldn't worry about it. I wished i'd ordered the same figure now but never mind the Chechen Sniper is a nice figure to.
ReplyDeleteThe face paint looks fine to me. I'm told to mix a little of the flesh tone used to the face paint/tattoos as this helps blend it in. If you know what I mean.
@LSiwoc Thanks! I think he's perfect for the psycho thats included in NMRIH :P
ReplyDelete@Brummie I've painted over a watered down basic fleshtone to blend them in, but mixing some flesh paint actually makes more sense, funny how I didn't figure that when I was going to paint it. Will paitn some tatooes and see how it goes on my next batch! Thanks!
No worries. It was suggested to me when I did the tattoos on my Yakuza :D
DeleteLooking good, I think the facepaint actually looks quite good. All the camo does, so congrats, as I know that is quite difficult.
ReplyDeleteI like the freebie unit you chose too, good eye.
Nice effort. Think I may try this out myself
ReplyDeleteI think they came out very nicely. You're being too hard on yourself. These look great.
ReplyDelete@Adam Thanks! I think that the problem might be, thats too much greys all around me lately...need to paint a soldier or two with some greens :D. I think cammo is hard only if you think too much about it, its probably best to just add tiny shapes of one colour, then the next. Thats how I did it here, but with shapes being a little too big. Then I figured there is too much base colour showing, so I just did the whole process again.
ReplyDelete@Fred Going in 28mm after all? :)
@Joe Hehe, thank you. Just wait that I get around to painting the eyes! :P
I think they look good enough to game with.
ReplyDeleteNow get more zombies painted!
Thanks! Gah, the zombies! I've painted some of the mantic ones...if I'd go with base-wash-drybrush method, I'd have them done in 2 days...but that just not what I'd like. I take my time, carefuly highlighting with 4+ layers and then I ruin it all with "diseased skin" wash :P
DeleteThey look ace mate, especially like the face paint, and you did a good job of the camo.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteI like the painting/camo :) You've done a great job!
ReplyDeleteThank you, but its hard to totally ruin a good sculpt! :P
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