Of course I had to take this opportunity to buy more little plastic people. This wasn’t as simple as grabbing whatever I wanted though, I did have a few goals in mind.
My main goal was to have two forces, one elite with few models, decent armour and weaponry, and the other with more models, worse guns and little to no armour. This is entirely to test whatever rules I’m trying out. If at the very least the can’t handle those simple archetypes then they’re probably not too great to use for the kinds of games I want.
My go-to figures for my elites as you’ve probably already guessed are the Eisenkern. For my weaker horde types I picked the Cannon Fodder also from Wargames Atlantic.
Unfortunately I forgot to take any real in progress pictures of these figures, but needless to say these guys were ‘slapchopped’. Slapchopping if you’re unaware is where you prime a figure black, drybrush it white to highlight all the details and then applying a paint like Citadel’s Contrast line to add all the colour in. It’s a very fast and powerful technique, that allowed me to paint 30 figures in a matter of days. The only additional step I took was to highlight their bald heads as the wash-like nature of Contrast paint made a mess of the flat surface of their heads. All I had to do to highlight was mix a little of my chosen Contrast colour with white paint.
Contrast paints are a godsend for this kind of technique, I used to do it back in 2015 with Tamiya Clear paints:
One thing I did do was cut the ends of the figures guns off as they looked a little big to me and technologically advanced for my cultish rabble.
You’ve pro noticed I’ve also mixed up the skin colours and overall colours too to break up the horde a bit. This adds to their disheveled look and just generally makes them look more interesting overall.
I think the Eisenkern should paint up even quicker and then hopefully I can start getting some games in!
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