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Wow, that's one heck of a first post, Dakkon426! Those enforcers are amazingly clean and neat. You've also managed to make them interesting using only 2 colours, so well done for that.

Great stuff, looking forward to more. Welcome to Dakka!

I think he did the yellow lines on the chest plates too yeah? Just a bit more subtle than the studio scheme.

Oh yeah, I missed the yellow. Nice and subtle, still great stuff.

dakkon426 wrote:

Awww hell yeah, these are nice

A lot of the time details seem to be lost on the enforcers once painted. He has done a good job of ensuring that isn't the case.

Thanks very much everybody! and yes I did notice that the deadzone specific enforcers especially the heads were I guess a bit muddy? in the the detail department. And as for scheme I really just love the standard enforcer colors so I just went with that, I think I might do a bit of dry brushing as just the black on the armor doesn't really show much of the detail on the armor.

Have you not dry brushed the black on the armour? How did you do the black on the waist? I assumed dry brushing but I could obviously be wrong.

I did do some dry-brushing but on only 3 of them so far.
Edit: Also after looking more looking more closely at the pic it appears to be a little overexposed some some lighter shading was a bit obscured but all of the troops have the same yellow marks on the chests and shoulders as the normal scheme I didn't add the legs marks though as I don't care for them. And now on to the next faction.

Also for anyone interested:
1. Black primer/base coat, I used Gesso
2. Light grey on armor dark grey or brown on weapons and bits and Red eyes
3. Touch up the black armor
4. dry brush on slightly lighter grey

snapped a quick shot of my enforcers with my ipod
pretty much just went with the same system i used to paint my blood angels

Its a little hard to tell from the shot, but they look nice and imposing. The kind of guys you do not want knocking down your door.

hm, assuming the weather is decent tomorrow, i'll try and get a shot with proper lighting, instead of using my table lamp

I don't think proper lighting will help my poor Yndij, I think he best keep to the shadows:



I do realize now that I need to go back and paint his nails and claws, and look at the mouth again. I think I got all of the teeth that physically exist, but the tongue could be a different shade to help differentiate it. I think I'll keep the scheme of black armor/guns and mid-grey straps and equipment for the rest of my rebs. I'll go back and fix the eyes when I don't suck at them.

A quick thought... Does anyone have an idea of what the misshapen pouch/item on his left hip may be? It almost looks like a pistol goes there but it was all the same level. I'm wondering if it's like that on all of these guys or if anybody got with with more definition. My guess is some kind of scanner, but who knows?

I like those!

Those look downright evil. Great work!

They remind me of one of the Xmen. Colossus was it?

snapped a few new pics, still not great, but about the best i can do with my current lighting setup

Nice, they definitely look intimidating, regular citizens are liable to toggle their holo-blinds to opaque and hide in the closet until they've passed... if they hear them coming at all.

thank you for the kind words, just wish the pics showed a bit better that i've used a mix of inks and whatnot to darken the joins and grooves and the like
they models are much less solid blocks of red in real life
assuming i can keep steaming along, i should have some of my rebs ready to show on here by later tonight or in the morning

 greenskin lynn wrote:
just wish the pics showed a bit better that i've used a mix of inks and whatnot to darken the joins and grooves and the like
they models are much less solid blocks of red in real life

I know how you feel, it is so hard to get good pics. If your camera has an HDR mode try that it can make differences in shades a little more apparent. It has worked out better for me about 50% of the time.

My wife painted my Stage 1A. God I love this model:

That looks really cool. Almost looks like its from a comic book.

 carlos13th wrote:
That looks really cool. Almost looks like its from a comic book.

Thanks! I'll let her know.

She's doing my Stage 1A and 2As. I'm doing all the 3s.

Yeah it does look good. Subtle, and I like how the thickest armor around the shoulders is more obvious, gives him an added sense of weight around there.

But get her to do the base (or do it yourself ), they look sooo much better after that

That S1 looks awesome, I love the way the flesh has blended into the bone-stuff, that was something I've attempted on mine and I'm not convinced I've pulled it off. Certainly nowhere near as well as that one.

 GrimDork wrote:
But get her to do the base (or do it yourself ), they look sooo much better after that

Not sure what we're going to do with the base. Right now it is painted Fenrisian Grey to match the mat.

Yeah, the S1 is (to me) one of the best looking models currently on the market. Without a doubt, the best model Mantic has made. I don't think anyone has mentioned disliking it. Am I incorrect in that statement?

I'd certainly second that, TTW. If they sold them separately, I'd probably buy another next time I put in a Mantic order.

I'm actually amazed by the plague as a whole. Before the models came in, they were kind of the 'because I have to' faction as they came in the boxed game, but a month later they are the only faction I have fully painted (1 soark away from the Rebs being done) and I've loved every model. There's a lot you can do with the textures on them, and the style is far less cartoony that I imagined at first. The S1, the crouching S2 and the S3 General are awesome.

Yeah I never liked the plauge much but I always have liked that model.

So I need to make a decision between two schemes. Anyone help?

1) blue camo with grey armour
2) brown camo with black?

I want to get a scifi look. My other factions are plague -pale flesh and prison orange, marauders- grey/brown skin and plain green fatigues with orange bits.... (Nb unfinished minis!)
What should I do or change?