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Time to get cracking. I have over fifty little men to paint, as well as a handful of tanks and walkery things. Time to start with the painful stuff. The infantry.

First off I removed all the Imperial Insignia. I want these poor souls to be generic Planetary Defence Force bums. This...involved a lot of fiddly scalpel work and scraping away with files. My own fault for having an aesthetic in mind. This...took a while.

After that, on went a standard matt black base coat.



While that dried, I went ahead and mixed up a bunch of grey for use in my airbrush.

Two shades for a dark grey that will be used for the infantry fatigues, and three shades for a lighter grey that will be used for armour, weapons and vehicles, and one pot of white.

All of this is from the Vallejo Model colour range with a drop of their retarder medium and judicious use of thinners to get it to the skimmed milk consistency I like to use.



Every trooper then got a blat of white right atop the noggin.



Then a strip of 1mm masking tape on each helmet.



Then on went a base coat of the darkest of the light grey shades. This is to get it all uniform. But it makes me smile that so far my efforts have yielded...fifty or so flat grey plastic men.

Today I applied basic shading using the next two lighter shades of grey. Nothing too fine as this is being done en masse.



After that, off comes the strip of masking tape on all the helmets. And voila! The armour and weapons are done to my satisfaction. Now I just need to get to work on their fatigues.

The production line continues. Dark grey on all the fatigues.

I've been going quietly mad base-coating my infantry. Black on the boots and areas that will be metallic, and Vallejo Game Colour Beasty Brown for the faces.

These look great. Can we call them Grey-dians?

EDC