So, here's a representative group of my Feral worlders that I've been working on. These are a real mish-mash of stuff, but mainly as follows: Perry Mahdists bodies and arms, Westwind Weird War 2 German gas mask heads, Warlord WW2 German equipment, Rogue Trader/Necromunda era weapons and with a few Vic minis bits for the officers.
As you can see, I've got quite a few of the buggers to paint, which leads me on to a question: How would you guys suggest I paint 'em? I'm probably going to go with an African skin tone, to match the Ferals I've done already (Who I can now use as scouts.)
As there are 40 of them to paint up, I need ideas for a colour scheme that would look impressive, but be fairly quick to do. I toyed with the idea of SS oakleaf camo, as they're all wearing baggy smock-like clothing (and it would match the German kit), but that might be a bit too busy for me to do a: quickly, and b: well, so I'm appealing to the hive-mind.
Any thoughts?
I'd say dark clothing. Faded blacks and dark olive drabs. Go for something a bit Kurtz compound in Apocalypse Now.
ReplyDeleteCheers, I like the idea, my only issue with that would be that with a dark skin tone and dark clothing, combined with my fairly dark and grungy painting style might mean they're a bit, well, dark. ;)
DeleteYou could add some orange rust areas to add a bright colour. Make the epaulettes stand out. Maybe add some stippled white skeletal body paint to the dark skin. That would bring the minis back into the light a bit?
ReplyDeleteYeah, white body paint would look great.
DeleteI'd stick with your African skin tones, it's quite excellent. Irregardless, I'm excited to see this huge batch painted.
ReplyDeleteI see their tunics as their tribal gear - I'd probably go for quite a strong orangey yellow, which I think would look good next to dark skin. Helmets in a mix of camo patterns as though they have been given whatever was left in the warehouse.
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