Re: What Figures are people using for SGII how are you painting them?

At 08:09 AM 9/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>You wrote: 
>
>>what figures. How do you have them painted up?
>>Are you using "historical" camo patterns or colors? I've done the 
>following:
>
I have been painting a lot of camo of late, and I am getting a little
sick
of it.	Largely because it takes me so damned long....	I do believe in
variety, though.  For my painted figures, I have:

Kryomek Nexus S.W.A.T. figures painted dark blue, and drybrushed with a 
(slightly) lighter blue.  The S.W.A.T insignia on their chests is picked

out in gold.

GW Eldar painted black with orange and black tiger-striped helmets.

GW Marines painted in Desert Camo-Tan basecoat, drybushed lighter tan, 
with splotches of dark gray and very light (almost white) tan.	On top 
of this are black dots, with a dot of sky blue placed off-center on 
them, giving a sort of shadow effect.  Looks good, but it takes a while 
to paint them.

GW Genestealers/Tyrannids painted dark purple, and then drybrushed in 
two shades of lighter purple.  Claws and chitin plates are painted 
black, drybrushed purple.  This looks really good on the Armorcast 
Tyrannid tank that I have.

Heavily modified (heads and weapons all replaced with Alternative Armies

"Levy Conversion Kit") GW OLD plastic Imperial guard, in basic black, 
drybrushed with dark Grey.    

ICE/Grenadier "Space Rangers" painted royal blue with white accents.

ZAP/Simtak Kyromek figures painted red, inked purple, drybrushed red.

Grenadier Future Warriors in olive drab, drybrushed lighter olive, 
panzer Gray armor plates.

Fantasy Forge security troopers in dark Gray.

Denizen Federation Marines (and Fantasy Forge PA) in light gray, with 
geometric patterns painted in black and filled in with blue/gray.  Over 
this are black squares filled in with (very) light gray.  Took forever 
to paint, but well worth it.

Leading Edge Future Warriors (their Terminator line) in yellow/brown, 
with white and yellow splotches, and dark green squiggly lines.  Nowhere

near as hideous as it sounds.

GZG NSL painted dark green, drybrushed a lighter dark green, splotched 
in brown and tan.

GZG UN in white, inked gray and drybrushed white again, with baby blue 
helmets.

Global Games U.N.E. troopers in medium green with Russian green shoulder

and knee plates.

Heartbreaker Legionaries in brown and olive green, with a great skin 
color-stone gray drybrushed with pastel green.	Looks nice and decayed.

Heartbreaker Cybertronic figs in Gray T-shirts with "Ocean Camo" 
pants--blue/gray with dark blue tiger stripes, the stripes filled in
with 
a sky blue.

Everything else--Partha Kurtia Battletroops, LEG Lizard guys, various 
Heartbreaker and Demonblade figs, Global Games Legions of Steel, 
etc.--have only had samples done.  I have to come up with schemes that I

like before I start painting them.

John X Crimmins
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