These look brilliant, giving me a mix of Starship Troopers & Colonial Marine vibes in the grey scheme! There must be a special kind of satisfaction in knowing the models you just painted can be used as-is in multiple different game systems.
My only gripe is that WGAtlantic has an STL digital store but these guys are (currently?) only physical purchases. Still very tempted to slap down £70 for 3 boxes of them though because I love me some Starship Troopers and I've been obsessed with the colonial marines since my dad let me watch Aliens as a kid back in the early '90s.
It's hair... in the future! REALLY pick whatever color you like ;) (I might have gone a bit technicolor when painting my own sci fi crews...) Lovely job, as always
Man fair play to ya.. I bought a box of these and just finished putting them together, there is no paint tutorial for them anywhere! Nor alternate colour schemes to the box art so this is great! Thank you.
Not exactly a painting tutorial, but Adam Savage has a "One day build" video on his channel where paints some armor from Aliens in the Colonial Marines camo scheme. Might be interesting you want to go for the classic look.
These look fantastic. Your "quick and dirty" method is my "best" method 😂. The Ooh-Rah are great, this has inspired me to paint them. Maybe the pants can use the urban camo effect from another of your videos.
Awesome tutorial my friend! I’m having a hard time deciding what base size to use. Yours look right what I’m thinking. What size or where did you get them? Thanks!
These are 25mm, 3mm thick MDF bases. Majestic 12 suggests using between 25-40mm bases for your team, but 25mm lets them work for most other games as well.
You mentioned the "marine juice" wash several times in your videos. What is the reasoning behind using it instead of just Agrax Earthshade (possibly dilluted) like you did for example in one of your earlier Cadian videos?
It's a different colour, mostly, and with the amount of medium in there it doesn't shade as darkly as others. It's the same reason why you might choose Seraphim Sepia or Nuln Oil instead of Agrax Earthshade, really just a matter of the colour it'll turn out.
The miniatures turned out great. Getting strong Aliens vibes from these dudes. I can't wait to play Majestic-13. I plan on using some minis I have lying around and haven't painted yet, like my Stargrave troopers, or maybe some of my old Future Wars corporate troopers. Both should work quite well for M13 operatives.
Space Station Zero absolutely slapped so I'm excited for Majestic 13. Thanks for showing off these minis with such a lovely paint job! I have other WA minis but I didn't see these. They are absolutely going in my cart today.
I got that gun metal paint you use in this video, was painting a mini there, fantastic coverage off it, all base colours locked in, got the nuln oil out and washed him.. it somehow washed all the metal flecks off the rifle and all over the mini, has that ever happened with you? It was 100% dry.. lol I am raging.. still looks ok tho.
Holy crap these look awesome!!! I've been wondering how this particular kit would look painted up and how I would painted some guys for Majestic 13. Thank you so much for this awesome video!
This is EXACTLY what I needed. I have these models, for this game, and I was looking for a colour scheme that wasn’t just black and grey. This is perfect. Thank you, thank you.
These new minis are a refreshing addition to the ever growing mass of plastic boxes, the paintjob is as striking as simple, plus it's possible using another base color as field drab to give them a different theater of operations. My only complaint are the short sleeves, if you want equip them with an enclosed/hazmat helm, the arms should be totally covered.
Love the starship trooper style of these minis, I wonder what kind of aliens are in the ruleset. I wish to see more classic grey aliens on the tabletop lol
Funnily enough there's usually an argument about that. 😂 They're 28/32mm, or 'heroic scale,' or 1/56... the list of possibilities goes on! But 'roughly the same size as an Imperial Guardsman' is a pretty good marker.
Cheers! I think it's easy sometimes to get hung up on the details; it was really satisfying to just smash these out nice and quick to have somethign to play with.
@@SonicSledgehammerStudio I know what you mean! Every time I do something like this, I feel free and happy with the result and tell myself that I should remember this lesson and worry less. And then my brain flips me off a couple of weeks later! 🤣
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