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Wow - why not more love for this thread!? These are great! Classic minis and awesome paint scheme and execution

Great scheme and great minis

Yep, very nicely done. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing work. Mind if I ask what colours you used?

Gordy2000 wrote:Wow - why not more love for this thread!? These are great! Classic minis and awesome paint scheme and execution

+1 to that! I'm loving these dudes - they're exactly what I had in my head for 40k Armsmen! Excellent palette choice, great execution and a pretty neat presentation - well done dude/dudette, keep it up

I just dug out ten of these - never got around to painting them back in the day. This thread might give me the push I need to get them done, so thanks for that!

Can I second the request to know what paints you used?

Beautiful work, Catbarf.

Way to bring some lovely old sculpts alive.

Nice work on these models.
I loved that the first Eisenhorn novel had a lot of love for the naval troops, showing them as extremely effective and that he can spot a group impersonating them because they're not precise enough.

I remember first seeing these in a GW catalog - awesome minis that have held up to the test of time.

And a really great paint job too!

Thanks all! Let me go grab the colors I used.

(All non-metallics are Vallejo Model Color, all metallics are Vallejo Metal Color)

Fatigues- Grey Blue, edge highlight Pale Grey Blue, sparse highlight White
Leather- German Cam. Medium Brown, edge highlight Cork Brown, wash 1:1 water/Smoke
Armor/Weapons- Dark Grey, edge highlight Neutral Grey, sparse highlight Light Grey
Metal- 1:1 Steel/Silver, zenithal highlight Silver, edge highlight Chrome
Grenades- Grey Green, highlight Pastel Green, sparse highlight 1:1 Pastel Green/white
Skin- Brown Rose, heavy highlight 1:2 Brown Rose / Pale Flesh, highlight Pale Flesh on top of nose and cheekbones
Bedrolls- German Cam. Beige, highlight 1:1 German Cam. Beige/Ivory, highlight Ivory
Respirators- Light Grey, highlight White

Wash whole model with 4:2:1 water/Black Glaze/Pledge floor gloss

Lenses- Lime Green, dot White, wash 1:1:2 Transparent Yellow/Transparent Green/water
Plasma- Light Orange, highlight White (raised texture of coils), wash 1:1 Transparent Orange/water, highlight White (just top of the coils), wash 1:1 Transparent Orange/water

That's just copied straight from my notes so let me know if anything's unclear.

Excellent paint job!!, thanks for telling us the paints you used.