"Any Painted Examples Of 15mm Old Crow Infantry???" Topic

I mean these guys:

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Any nice photos of painted ones?

Thanks.

CC

Did you paint them this way?

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If not, how did you paint yours?

CC

. . . or are all of yours still bare metal?

CC

On a completely differing note did you see the new stuff at Alternative Armies? The Post-Apoc infantry, Police and Merc's? The cops look like the ones in 5th Element.

Thanks,

John

John,

Can't seem to find pictures of those either.

CC

I have a bunch of these (100+ troopers) to turn into Hammer's Slammers to go with all the Old Crow vehicles I ordered. They are not too far away from finding their way to the paint table.

Jeff

CC, here you go.

15mm.co.uk/Humanity.htm

Octopoid Infantry

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Thanks,

John

Hey Jeff,

Please take some photos of the Old Crow Infantry for me. I need a little inspiration. Thanks.

CC

CC,

Did you already buy some and just can't figure out how you want to paint them? I'm not sure yet exactly what color mine are going to be. I was originally leaning toward a predominately OD Green color with the helmet and accessories being a complementary color, but since I now plan to do my Marines from Rebel Minis in those colors I now need to change the scheme for these. No reason to have two forces in the same colors. Right now I am leaning toward doing them in light browns and beige with some muted maroon or brick red color on the helmet and accessories. I want to use colors tat will work well with the Army Painter product and where I can get spray paint to prime the figures in whatever the predominant color will be so all I have to do is add the detail colors, a little highlight, gray gun, dip the figure and Dullcoat.

I'll post pictures when I get them done.

Original Concept:
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Some Nice Slammers Pictures:
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Jeff

Jeff,

Had the same dilemma as you. I'm painting the Rebel Minis Earth Force Marines as if they were from "Space: Above and Beyond".

That's why I am leaning to a color scheme similar to your Hammer's Slammers image:

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Or I could go really light desert too:

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CC
PS. WOW. That Hammer's Slammers image is an exact duplicate of the "future soldier" photos I shared above!!!

"Right now I am leaning toward doing them in light browns and beige with some muted maroon or brick red color on the helmet and accessories."

I think I'll go more with the stealth look (black and grays):
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Maybe even some dark blues:
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CC

I have some darker troops already and plan a few more, so I need the Slammer's forces to stand out a little more, so I was leaning toward the lighter colors. I do like the image you provided of the guy is desert camo. Might have to lean toward that a little in my concept. Really not likely to really decide until they are on the painting table.

Jeff

Light Desert works but so does blue and black (with green visors as Servelans Storm Troopers:

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Cheers
Mark

How about a red armour, burgundy uniform, black visor look? It would make a strong contrast to the drab realism of the Rebel Minis colors you mentioned.

That Slammer's picture is all wrong. The Slammer's have khaki BDUs, Comm helmet has a full faceshield, and the armor is a back and breast clamshell. I don't think the color of the armor is specified, but it does have red and blue tabs on the chest to administer drugs if injured. No fancy-schmancy LEDs blinking on their harness either.

Hey, that was so pedantic I could be a Napoleonic's player!

LOL.

For my purposes though (painting Old Crow figures I bought), that picture works for me . . . for now.

CC

Yeah, basic khaki cloth for the Slammers, but the armor color is never described. (Personally, I'd use Vallejo Model Color English Uniform in a heavy drybrush, or one of the desert colors) The faceshield has a mirrored chrome finish, too.

"Greens" versus "Browns" would work pretty well for distinguishing the two forces.

I plan on using Panzer gray for the armor on the S:A&B Rebel Minis, and probably US Dark Green for the cloth.

If you want Slammers, Khaki cloth with a different color armor, and mirror face-shields.

I used a very similar color combination for some of my Infinity minis (even though they're supposed to be in the same faction), and they look pretty good together.

"That Slammer's picture is all wrong. The Slammer's have khaki BDUs, Comm helmet has a full faceshield, and the armor is a back and breast clamshell."

……Mongoose

Cheers
Mark

It just dawned on me . . .

If painted right, the Old Crow infantry could be used as "Umbrella Corp" troops:

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Don't you think?

CC

Yes, they could… I'd suggest a different color set than that if you want them to stand out from the Rebel Minis troops, though.

All black (or Panzer gray with a black ink wash) looks an awful lot like panzer gray armor with dark green fatigues.

For the "Umbrella Corp" look . . .

Would really dark charcoal gray, with just a couple of highlights, plus a black ink wash, work?

Or should I go with some blue in the mix somewhere?

CC

I just ordered another few packs of the infantry and the specialists:

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That means that shortly I'll have 30 figures from the infantry packs, 12 of the specialists and one of the mortar teams. Plus, I went ahead and ordered two of these beauties:

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Don't know if that combination of troops is in line with most organization methods for squads, platoons, etc., but I figured I needed to have more of the infantry than anything else. Suggestions appreciated on this.

Can't wait to get started on painting them. They look like they'll be easy to paint. Quality is outstanding.

CC

painting a few this week…

Honestly, I use Vallejo Model color German Grey with a wash of Citadel's Badab Black, and don't even bother to highlight it, even on 28mm Infinity figures. It just looks that good without any hard highlights. Badab black wash is a godsend for painting.

As far as your force goes, I'd get another 2 mortar teams (you usually see large mortars like that one in small batteries of 3-6 tubes).

That would give you a small mortar section, plus enough other bodies for a small platoon.

I'd organize each set of 6 guys from the infantry set as a squad, and add one missile guy and one of the grenade-launcher guys from a Specialists pack. That makes two teams of 4 as maneuvering elements for each 'squad,' giving you 4 squads, with 10 specialist packs and a 5th infantry squad pack as leftovers. Use the 5th infantry team to make some anti-tank teams, with two missile launcher guys and a rifleman. You'll probably only need one or two dedicated teams, so that leaves 4 riflemen, plus 4 snipers and 4 grenadiers from the Specialists packs. Use the 8 riflemen and Grenadiers to make a command squad, and keep the snipers as pairs, since you don't really need lots of them. Any game with good rules for independent snipers makes them powerful enough to dominate the field with more than 2 snipers, and 'merely' 2 snipers isn't nice on the receiving end.

Really, you don't have enough regular troopers for how many specialists you've got, but that's OK. Having some spare snipers painted up to swap for the missile-launcher troops is OK for counter-insurgency type warfare.

I'd suggest buying some more transports, IF you want to have enough transport for the entire 'Platoon': usually each squad has it's own wheels, and the anti-tank teams can share one. The mortars will definitely need a separate transport for each gun, as well.

Lion,

Thanks so much for your much-needed wisdom. I may have bought a lot of SF and done a lot of SF terrain, but i am a newbie when it comes to gaming modern and SF.

I want to be able to use the troops as SF soldiers in the field and, if need be, use them to play the part of "Umbrella Corp"-like or futuristic SWAT teams, to fight off zombies and other things that go bump in the night.

What do you think?

CC

Lion,

I finally got hold of the "Citadel's Badab Black Wash". Can't wait to try it out this weekend. I'll let you know how it works for me.

Thanks for the recommendation.

CC