Cracked the Special Assault Brigade

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Managed to crack my painting stalemate with Jon's Special Assault Brigade! I settled for Vallejo Orange Ochre, with the help of a Mohican separate head from GZG's SG15-XH1 Heads pack.

15mm Sci Fi: Harkonnen Drop Trooper WIP

The headswop above took me 20 minutes plus a large glass of Crows Fountain whilst I carefully pared away the helmet. Made harder by the fact that I'd already assembled and undercoated the figure. Still have fine detailing and some tidying up to go but I think he's turned into a damn fine 15mm Sci Fi masterpeice - screaming dynamic character.


Why the headswop? Look at the pic! The result is so frakkin cool! Straight off the cover of a Dan Abnett novel. 28mm comes to 15'. What other reason do I need!

Rest of the squad in Mohicans like this - 15 man platoon and then maybe a squad or more in Space Marine blue for the hell of it! Hoo-Ahh!

Cheers
Mark
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Get ready for some State of the Art Bad Asses

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The Special Assault Brigade are the elite strike force of the Federal Marines, used for special operations, boarding action and landings to outflank the enemy during fullscale invasions.


They alone are deployable using teleport technology. They wear power armour, and are armed with a large dual-purpose missile launcher (capable of both anti-tank and anti-personnel action) and a heavy flame thrower. Additionally their backpack, which has both rocket and jet boosters to move the marines at very great speed, also contains a bombthrower armed with heavy grenades.


As the open battlefield is dominated by the L-HAC combat system and its sypporting marine troopers, so the tunnel, landing zone and spaceship corridor are dominated by these stealthy marines, their rock-hard armour suits not much larger than a man to assure access to tight spots, to coax the enemy out of his lair. However, the S.A.B. can always be found in the forefront of major combat operations, first on the ground, there and fighting before the others even arrive.


The models come five to a pack, four different troopers and a commander. Their arms are separate and have some posability and although they were originally designed to go with the respective bodies, are to some extent interchangable between the models.

Each model comes with two arm sets to portray the trooper with either the big missile launcher or the heavy flamethrower, as well as two loose weapons so that the one not being used can be depicted snapped onto the backpack.

These tough hombres will be released
next Wednesday, 14th April 2010.

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