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I recently got the Wargames Factory Great Coated shock troops, and they are for my 40k army to expand my IG. I have assembled all of them, and am now working on the paint work, sorry for not having batteries in the camera for the construction phase.

Paint work has begun, Catachan Green for the hard armor, and grays of several colors are for their great coats. I started with a base of fortress gray. Here is the Command Squad for one of the head types being used as they have three different types. I used all three to make platoons from three different planetary sources.

My beginning pics
The Commander
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The vox-man"Sparx"
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The Medic, "Patch'em up"
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The Weaponeers with Grenade Launchers
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The "bodyguards" one with the Auto-rifle, the other with a lasgun.
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The entire command squad
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More to come later as they are painted, the breather masks will also be painted, I am thinking of painting "Patch 'em up's" helmet white and with red crosses.

Quick hints to help you out.

1. macro setting on your camera. usually looks like a flower.

2. make a stack of books, and put a plain sheet of white paper against it, cover your desk with it too. Then put your models within that white space. makes for an easy photo area.

3. hold your camera steady at around a foot to 6 inches away from your figures. DO NOT ZOOM. zooming makes your camera's autofocus more grainy, ruining any pictures that you take when you move your hand slightly. If you do not zoom, those same pictures could be usable.


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Quick hints to help you out.

1. macro setting on your camera. usually looks like a flower.

2. make a stack of books, and put a plain sheet of white paper against it, cover your desk with it too. Then put your models within that white space. makes for an easy photo area.

3. hold your camera steady at around a foot to 6 inches away from your figures. DO NOT ZOOM. zooming makes your camera's autofocus more grainy, ruining any pictures that you take when you move your hand slightly. If you do not zoom, those same pictures could be usable.

Ah thanks, I was out at my local game shop, I had boxes I could have propped the paper sheet, or the plain plastic sheet against, and I must have slipped the macro at some point. I will have better pics to replace these.

Better pics on the way.

Okay, better pics are here!

Still with just two colors painted, the entire team:
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Commander
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Sparxx
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Patch 'em up
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The weapon experts, Krak and Frag
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The bodyguards;
Autorifle
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Lasrifle
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I used the suggested white background, and no flash to avoid glare, the initial pics seem dark, but I will post the minis with more paint and colors as well

You're photography skills are getting better, that is a plus. Like the coats.

Thanks, I started to look at the distance more with the flower image clicked on my controls, still got a little too close on some of these, so sorry for the blur from getting too close.

I avoided zooming as that just looked awful anyway.

what other paints will these fellas be getting? will you aply your camo as well on these?
also what will you do to the bases? the given small bases with the models i hope will not be seen when they´re done, or ?

i love those figs, to bad that i will go for a brit look so these fellas are out of the question...

vik

I will coat the bases in grass most likely, all of it so that at worst they will be standing on little rises of grass under their feet, or I will sand them, and paint them gray. Ah, the camo for the troops os different, but the Chatachan green and shadow gray will be there. Upload complete, I will add those pics next.

may i recommend something? use airdry clay. with that you can almost achieve anything in basing. the stuff is amazing. i use it still wet and have the base coated with pva glue before. then the clay gets aplyed to base. by doing this you wont see anything of the minibase from wargames factory base...
and you can do lots of different designs for the real base with it. like mud and lava or cobblestones, all of the above i´ve done myself...

still glued to your thread---> vik

Khadrovian troops wear a cloth in a block/digital urban/winter scheme of Shadow gray and dark gray over fortress gray, helmets and hard armor are Catachan green with kommando khaki with graveyard earth inside.

The entire squad just staring
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Commander again with the camo on both cloth and hard armor.
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Camo'ed Sparxx
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Camo on Patch 'em Up
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Camo'ed Krak and Frag
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Bodyguards
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Entire squad
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Mind you, all of this is done by a guy with glasses, shaky, arthritic hands and battered brushes.

Thanks for the tip vik! I will need a lot of that stuff as i have over a hundred of these guys to finish!

Not a big fan of the blue grey but looks decent and clean. I like the green/brown camo though

Wait'll I wash them with the devlan mud wash to "dirty" them down!^^

well i wont do any camo on my fellas at all, but i think your camo looks good to go. the fine lighter lines on the helmet and armor look especially good. but i have to say one thing, the sani helmet just looks stupid to me. one thing: if i was a sani/medic than i would only have on the backside a red cross. also i would definatly recommend repainting that white helmet. it looks just off. i´d go full camo with a red cross only on the back. and is it still possible to ad laspistols or even boltpistols, heck boltaction pistols even instead of the wargames pistols, they look realy flimsy. i wouldnt feel threatened at all if they would point at me...

but dont get these harsh words in the wrong way the models look grim and artful, so they will be a fine force...200? phew, thats quite a bunch to paint...

good going mate, vik

Thanks vik. I had in fact seen such white helmets before for medical, but then again, I may shrink the white down to circles around the red cross, and leave it camo green and no "splinter" pattern, he is a medic after all.

I even have some old autopistols lying around, may use them as they are bigger and scarier.

i would so much apreciate the mentioned change, color and weapon wise. i think your army will be quite a breath taker^^
and really arthritic ? or just a pun, thats a very bad thing to happen to someone... i am a bit afraidf it might come to me one day...not being able to use hands without care is something of a nightmare to me...

vik

Well, I have to find the guns for the change, and then, not too many to go around. Shame they went with the "Capt. Scarlet size pistols, they look less lethal, true.

Osteo-arthritis, I can see the twist of the fingers as they don't completely line up as they once did. Worse is in the ankles/knees/hips.

ouch, thats something bad mate. i´ve heard that word before, if i´m not mistaken i know that my´father has it too. but i know he´s done things to push himself into these circumstances...

i hope you have everything to cope with that hardship. atm i have cold and going with that some rheumatic pains... i daren´t imagine that would be a condition to dont go away...

does it help you when you paint? sometimes for some people it is actually relieving pain to use the fingers more and thus getting them warm and flexible once more...if not, all the more praise to you for waht you have achieved under these conditions...

it´s reaching 02:00 in the morning, should take a nap until the wretched clock tosses me again out of bed^^

good work to you and best wishes, vik

Thanks Vik, it does help the old fingers to paint the models up. With winter settling in, it helps more than ever!

Now on a good note, I do take walks with cane in hand to help the rest of the body move.

I also have made a Platoon of 35 for that style of helmet, along with a vets squad.

I have a platoon of 35 with a vet squad with the even more armored heads.

Finally, there is a 25man platoon wearing just gasmasks.


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The rest of my troops are Cadian Catachan and Vostroyan/Valhallan based minis.

hmmm pretty much diversified ranks. would be nice to see them all.
got me a bunch of catachans, cadians and some fantasy imperial musketeers also some warzone minis as well. i guess my force will be a pretty patchwork army...i hope i can blend them all in into the victorian theme...want to go for a redcoat look. will be dificult.

yeah please show the valhallan vodka villains^^

vik

I love the models. Look like a great way to put together some Steel Legion without breaking the bank. I like your paint job too, its nice and clean. Where im getting confused though is why you chose to do two competely different typs of camoflauge on the characters? I thought they looked great with th egrey/green look

Fantastic work! Love seeing the greatcoats painted.

I like the wat they look but haven't two distinct camo styles looks odd.

keep the green camo, but get rid of the blue.

The entire idea of the mixed camo is competing makers of the uniforms and armor, mix in a very uncaring bureaucracy that rubber stamps what the best bids are and you get a mix like that. I may still go with making the coats more one colored and keep the armor and helms camoed like that

With three different groups and their sub-groups, I may try something different for their vets.

Meanwhile, I did work on a lense color that was different
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grenade guy
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Commander
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Krak and Frag
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the bodyguards, together
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Patch 'em Up
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Vassily and the Violators, tank wreckers supreme!
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More pics of the latest squad on the way. more painting was done last night.

Nice minis dude...

Any chance you could show one of the WGF Great Coats standing next to a GW guardsmen?

Thanks!

Beasts of War did a comparison: http://www.beastsofwar.com/sci-fi-wargaming/unboxing-greatcoat-troopers-wargames-factory/ around 22:00

Gunzhard, yeah, I can do that I will be able to do so.

Duke, they sure did, they are pretty damn similarly sized and quite good.

More of Vassily and his tank slayers.
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Sorry again about the shaky camera.

I need to get back to the platoon and vets of the greatcoats as well.