Just a brief post this time, and the opponents to the last post. I didn't want to do what I usually do and buy far too many minis at once, so I stuck to a 12 man SEAL team which I will use as generic Spec Ops troops:
And that's it for now, a few helicopters and other vehicles to do, along with the last of the insurgents and a few specific desert type buildings and I'm calling this mini project done.
My son has recently had a thing for Call of Duty - Modern warfare, so with that in mind we ordered a few miniatures so we could recreate our console battles on the tabletop. This isn't going to be a big project although we do want some helicopters and a few vehicles to add to our infantry, and now we've seen them we plan on adding a few zombies too, and being 20mm they will work with my Gaslands stuff should I ever want to do a more infantry based game.
First up are the insurgent mainly because I enjoy doing civilians more than regular troops due to the variety of colours you can use, although in this case I kept a fairly limited palette:
I have a few more insurgent left to do mainly leaders and to Technicals, bit on to some opponents next.
As soon as I saw them I knew I had to have all three boxes of North Stars Stargrave minis, firstly I thoroughly enjoy building up multi part minis and secondly I really wanted to paint some which; not being a big lover of 28mm stuff surprised me!
I decided to make a bunch of factions/gangs for a potential sci-fi skirmish game supplemented with a few metal minis from various places, CP Models mainly.
Not really fancying Stargrave itself, I initially went for Planet 28 rules which are perfect for a quick game using any old minis and great for playing with my son. Having played a few games I wanted something more detailed for the narrative side of our games and after some research decided to give Spectre Ops(2nd Ed) a punt, and so far we're really liking them, as they are perfect for small scale narrative missions.
Anyways on to the minis which I wanted to be bright and vibrant (unlike most of my collection) and wanting to get through them quickly I used a lot of GW's Contrast paints which I am just about getting the hang of.
First up are my main protagonists the A.L.F (Alien Liberation Front) brave freedom fighters or alien terrorists depending on your viewpoint:
Next are the A.L.F's main opponents the Galactic Marine Corps which sadly went through two other paint schemes before I settled on this one(the others being too dull for my overall scheme):
Some more factions, and then a few vehicles over the next couple of posts.
