"15mm Marines, Insurgents and tiny bug!" Topic

HI

Just finished rebasing and repainting some of my minis.
I was not satisfied with my Earth Force Marine bases from this topic link ! Yes they look good, but the problem is that all my marines wear green armor with brown cloth color, so they often blend with bases and gaming terrain. So after mounts of thoughts I decided to rebase them. So now I am presenting you my new Mars style bases :)

I also changed shoulder armor color of my Earth Force Marines army commander from blue to orange. My idea is that all regular marine will have blue shoulder armor, heavy weapon guys – red, officers – orange.

I also rebased a squad of my 15mm insurgents. These are mostly Peter Pig figures from AK47 Republic range and one Laserburn mercenary figure (the guy in boonie hat and in Auscam camouflage). I painted them half a year ago, but I was not satisfied with their bases. After watching season 2 of Falling Skies, I had an idea of making half grassy, half urban bases, so here are results.

Also I repainted 15mm T-26 tank from Zvezda and I am gonna paint the rest of my T-34 tank force this way. You can see the old color scheme here link

I used Knarloc Green for base colour, then I highlighted all hatches with 50/50 mix of Knarloc Green and Straken Green (new paint). Then I used Straken Green to highlight all edges. For some hull and turret edges I used 50/50 mix of Straken Green and Bleached Bone. Then I drybrushed tracks using khemri brown. At the end, I applied minimum amount of blackwash on hull around hatches edges and onto tracks.

And last but not least. Today I painted a very tiny 15mm bug from Brigade Models "Alien Creatures" pack. link

Nick
15mmworld.blogspot.com.au

That reminds me. I have 4 BT5s and 6 BT7s to paint!!! What colours did you use on the T-26? I used to use GW Catachan Green but they have changed it slightly and it's wrong now.

For T-26 I used Knarloc Green for base colour, then I highlighted all hatches with 50/50 mix of Knarloc Green and Straken Green (new paint). Then I used Straken Green to highlight all edges. For some hull and turret edges I used 50/50 mix of Straken Green and Bleached Bone. Then I drybrushed tracks using khemri brown. At the end, I applied minimum amount of blackwash on hull around hatches edges and onto tracks.

Very nice! Like the idea of using the pads to differntiate the various troop types.

Mike

Love those half grassy, half urban bases.Consider them stolen.
The little bug is great to.

Good work all round sir! I particularly like the "Auscam" insurgent.

Cheers, TC.

Those are really nice paint jobs and bases. I'm printing the pics for my own reference.

Nice job! I love the bug :)

I like those bugs!!!

Dan

Please share, how did you do the really nifty urban bases.

Thanks.
Tim

To make urban bases you need to use washers, not coins. I use 18mm washers.

You need to cut the base of miniature to minimum and place the remaining of miniature base into washers hole and fill any gaps. Then you need to apply PVA glue and sand with very small grains. Paint sand with medium grey and paint some road markings. Drybrush road with white paint.

IF your miniature have very high base or very big base, so it can't be cutted to dip miniature into washers hole, you can make half urban, half road bases.

You need to make and paint a road first and then glue some sand and grass on remaining part of washer, to cover the bump caused by miniatures base.

I can make a tutorial about these bases. I still have 6 more insurgents to rebase.

A tutorial would be great, and appreciated!

Interesting. Thank you. My alternative would be to build the sand on the base up the to the base of the figure (which I do anyway), but it seems the key is the fine grained sand.

My early urban bases used "to build the sand on the base up the to the base of the figure" techique, but I prefer my roads to be flat.
I have some zombies with urban roads, wich looks like 1mm height hills painted as roads, but they are still good. I will share photos soon.

Great job. I like your basing style. What is the grass? Flock?

For my grass I mix of these Hormby flocks link and link

For bigger base I add some spots of Scenic Woodland burnt grass and yellow grass.

You can ask any question about colours, types of paint and flock. I am happy to help!