Sorry the image is so dark. You may recall that I originally tried a red-and-white scheme inspired by a version of Iron Man from the '80's. Then Mantic used the same scheme for the MVP for Dreadball, and that was that.
I went back to square one, but every color scheme I thought of turned out gaudy and ugly. Then, suddenly, it hit me: I was trying to paint them like Space Marines. I think it was the v4 rulebook that mentioned that Marines were painted in heraldic schemes, which is why the bright primary colors work in that setting. In my mind, Enforcers (and the Corporation more broadly) would take a more businesslike, militaristic approach to fighting. I took out my old bottle of Tamiya NATO green, washed with Army Builder Strong Tone, then drybrushed up a couple of layers lightened with Tamiya Buff. I put rank and unit insignia transfers from Company B on their shoulders and viola! Soldiers.
I had some trouble with the hybrid kits, but I solved the problem by drilling and pinning to keep the shoulders in place while I got everything in position. The alloy that Mantic uses feels almost as soft as the lead alloys everyone used when I got into miniatures oh so many years ago, and I think I will do that with every hybrid kit I get from them from now on.
Here is an Enforcer next to a Vanguard trooper from Sedition Wars. Their armor and equipment look similar enough to use them in the same force, I think, with the Vanguard as basic troops and Enforcers as stormtrooper/drop troop equivalents.
These models are so fun to assemble and paint that I can't see myself picking up another Marine in the forseeable future.
