Vallejo beastly brown was used for the armour, Vallejo charred brown for the trousers and upper sleeves. I overpainted some parts of the armour with GW red gore. Painting it over the brown has kept it fairly restrained, unlike the bright red you'd get from painting it over a white undercoat.
The whole figure received a wash of Vallejo sepia ink. The darker brown areas received a further wash of Vallejo black ink to ensure a good contrast with the lighter brown armour.
Weapons are Vallejo matt black with a Humbrol 32 dark grey drybrush. Flesh is Vallejo dwarf flesh with a sepia wash, highlighted with dwarf flesh and then with elf flesh. I'm not sure that it's an entirely convincing Japanese skin tone, but there's so little flesh on show that it hardly matters!
The officer's sword has GW red gore and Vallego bonewhite stripes.
A nice set of figures. 5 are armed with compact assault rifles, one a tribarrel support weapon and one a 6-round mini-missile launcher. The officer has an assult rifel and a sword (perhaps a katana?).
These look great, always been a bit curious about these minis but only had the tiny picture on the GZG site as reference.
ReplyDeleteThese look really good, and like the poster above, I'd been curious of these, but really the GZG website doesn't do itself favours at times with tiny pictures.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah in theory it could be a katana, it's certainly got the curve in it.
Indeed they look better than I thought. The photo's for a lot of there figures could be better.
ReplyDeleteI've painted up three squads of these guys and they're still growing on me. I'm partial to the earthy tones you went here as well, they look great. I also like how you used the cast bases on them without adding anything larger under them.
ReplyDeleteI know that a lot of people go for 20mm bases on 15mm figures but I like to keep them fairly small so that you can cram lots of them in behind cover or between bits of scenery. Because the GZG figures come with pre-cast bases, the easiest option is to use washers of a similar size for by other troops so they all match. Plus not having to re-base the GZG figures is nice because I'm so lazy!
DeleteGreat job Paul! These guys would make pretty decent alien troopers too I think.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm sure someone suggested adding tails to them and using them as a feline race when I posted some pictures before. (Perhaps it was even you?)
DeleteActually, that's what I did with mine. No conversions, but there's a platoon of three squads as "aliens" led by a command squad of Kravak, which are being used as the same troopers sans helmets.
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