CRC's Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo
If I sit here long enough someone will bring over some bullets, right?
Decided to put up a post of this chap by himself rather than waiting for the whole team to be finished. He has the Vickers Gun, after all. That’s the important bit, right? and who knows, that box he’s sitting on might actually have all the ammo in it. The paint job is the same as other WW2 Brits I’ve done in the past, though that was in another project log now. 😛 As I use the GW paint range (sometimes I question why myself, but I know the range and that helps so I stuck with it) the colours are usually not as straight forward. No GW paint is called ‘British Uniform’, for example. So here’s a simple run-down of the main colours I used here.
Uniform:
Basecoat of Steel Legion Drab, shade of Agrax Earthshade, re-layering of Steel Legion Drab on some of the flatter surfaces/knees/elbows, edge highlight of Tallarn Sand.
Webbing:
Basecoat of Loren Forest, shade of Biel’Tan Green, layer of Elysian Green, edge highlight of Ogryn Camo.
Green Metal (helmets/gun mounts):
Basecoat of Castellan Green, shade of Agrax Earthshade, re-layer Castellan Green on some areas (dome of the helmet here, though with netting on the helmet you needn’t worry about this step), edge highlight Loren Forest.
The base of the whole mini was given a coat of Wyldwood contrast paint just because it's got good coverage and as I need it for a base to cover up the grey of the primer. It will have some proper basing paint on it once the other chaps are painted and on the base.
Went for as many 'reasonable' colours for the various boxes around the gun to help with contrast a bit. The colours might not be 'right'. The condensing 'flimsy' at the front, for example, was probably only that colour for the desert campaigns, but it could have just not got repainted. Always a challenge to balance what looks correct with what looks good in a mini this small.
You can't quite make them out, but he does have division badges. No rank badges on this chap, just because getting them on around the folds is tricky. Might get a Cpl. or L/Cpl. somewhere in the team, but we'll have to see. I forgot how small the decals really were for these, so I actually but the division badges on my medic as well, so everyone is all in the same division.
And the traditional Lloyd Shot. The most important piece of kit is here; the mug!The loader is on his way; he missed the bus. The third man will be after that, then we can look at basing before saying my heavy firepower is finished. Stay tuned!
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