Infantry Dirtside (and bonus painting tip)

> At 9:45 PM -0800 11/18/97, Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:

Right. The Space Marines make great powered armor troops. Buying Imperial
Guard gets you a lot of bits that wouldn't look quite right in a GZG game, but
may be useful. The Eldar can be used for troops in environment suits (as
opposed to powered armor). Good luck with the
Orks and Squats. The old-style Eldar Falcon tanks (the plastic ones as
I recall) would make good Grav APCs.

And the ImpGuard looks great painted in khaki. Spray prime 'em black, drybrush
khaki on, dab the exposed flesh, and hit the guns with a touch of silver. I
just did a 22 stand batch of Dark Star 6mm infantry (Ask Jon Tuffley where to
get them, I traded with him for them) using this technique.

The drybrush of a khaki color over black gives very good contrast, and
the black that will show through will pass for detail and/or outlining
at arms length (next time you watch a cartoon, esp. Disney, watch how the
characters are solid colors outlined in black). This is a technique for
wargaming figures, not for museum quality, so just dabbing a bit of flesh
color at hands and face will work. A careful drybrush yields better results,
but cuts your productivity in half. Likewise, silver for the guns is not
remotely accurate (matte or cammo would be right) but it makes the weapons
stand out on the table. Lastly, drybrushing yields the best results in terms
of time invested and it's my favorite technique.

So grab them cheap plastic minis and get painting!