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 WIPThe 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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Horses for courses naturally but I think the original head is the coolest part of the model! Never a fan of the "heavily armoured everywhere except where I need it most" school of sci fi. Nice work on the conversion though.
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As always a nicely converted mini.
ReplyDeleteI am going to listen to the voices that say paint one up as Iron man though !!!!!
wow, that is actually great!
ReplyDeleteLooking good! Those heaswaps make a world of difference!
ReplyDeletePerhaps the best head swap I've ever seen. Awesome!
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