In the grand scale of things 12 figures is not much really. But its a start, and everything needs a start. I have a long way to go before these guys are an official army but it doesn’t seem quite so daunting when you get a few at a time under your belt.
Two Sanwar slave infantry units in all their grime smeared, gun toting and club swinging finery…
I have decided to coat their bases with the contents of a packet of ancient flock, to better blend the pill bases to the MDF rounds, then paint them in the normal Martian earth colour so that the army theme carries through. I suspect as my eyesight slowly fails, these will look better and better to me over the next few years…
I am quite pleased with how these look, especially as they were done in super quick time and with little effort expended.
When I look at them now I see them as proper Steam Wars Martian Infantry, but I also suspect that they will be found on a gaming table as 40k chaos cultists and maybe as part of a low tech Scrappers or Rogue Stars crew…
Next up should be the Cephalopod command unit, but I am far from reliable or consistent at the moment so don’t hold your breath!
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Nice painting, though the flock seems a bit jarringly red. It seems hard to imagine now how common that basing material was just a few years ago.
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The ‘ancient flock’ is rather bright. I seem to recall it was called summer orchard scatter or something similar. I based my old 40k space marines with this (quite why I have to say I don’t remember). I do plan to paint over it with a martian earth red which should dull it down. 🤓
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I use a textured acrylic to serve a similar purpose. Not something I ever had to do in the past, but then my Saga minis showed up in all their baselumpy glory, haha.
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I’ve seen many ways of blending these pill bases. Never managed to get them perfect. Probably because I am not patient enough to spend more than maybe 2 minutes on each base.
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That’ll make it tricky, yep. The textured acrylic gives an effect sort of like glue and sand etc, except that it just comes out of a jar and gets smeared into place. I dunno about perfect, but it certainly hits the effort/effect sweet spot for me…
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Great work here. They still read as Sand People to me, but that’s no bad thing, and well done on getting two units of them completed! 🙂
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Cheers Azazel. I for one am happy with sand people. They are, I suppose, from the red sands of Mars. Not quite done here but should be by the end of today…
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