Space 2021 – A Star Saga

Jeez, poor bastards, What the hell has Mazon done to them? 

Again, we deviated slightly with the Plague Victims in that the artwork and demo miniatures all have green pants, like some kind of medical scrubs. As we had already done the lab techs in the same colour I decided to go with orange, like prison jump suits.  These were really quick to paint using contrast paints, the highly textured surfaces came out really well and the brown wash at the end really helps hide any imperfections (and gaps) that contrast paints almost always come with

What the…? That’s not regular laser fire. Holy crap, they’re not Marines, they’re Rangers. What the hell are they doing in this place? 

The rangers are painted using exactly the same methods and colours as their lesser brethren, the marines. Although technically there are two separate versions of the Rangers, the regulars and the specialists, they were painted as a single batch, I don’t think there’s much difference stat wise

Now this is starting to get a bit tasty – why would the lab have Corporate Marines stationed here? What on earth could Mazon Labs be up to?

These miniatures are simplified versions of the plastic Deadzone/Warpath kits in that they’re single piece, other than that they’re pretty much identical.  I wasn’t really keen on the maroon colour scheme used in the artwork or Mantic’s demo miniatures. I already have a decent GCPS force for Deadzone and I was tempted to expand it further but decided otherwise. Because all of the Star Saga models can be used as Mazon Labs in Deadzone I wanted to create the option of playing GCPS vs Mazon Labs.

These were all painted in contrast paints with the gun barrels picked out in metal and finished with a thin brown wash.

As expected there’s a few basic security guards. Nothing particularly special, armed with slightly under powered pea shooters and wearing bog roll for armour. Nevertheless if you let ’em get enough rounds eventually something’s gonna land. 

Next up, security guards. Between the lab techs and security guards they form pretty much the core of what you face on the first few missions making everything seem legit and above board.

These were painted using a mixture of drybrushing and contrast painting. Initially sprayed black and given a dark grey drybrush with any non metallic colours then picked out using contrast paints.  Super quick, super effective.

Lab technicians, nothing unexpected – we’re busting a lab after all – and nothing the team can’t handle. If you’re not watching these guys can give you a nasty prod but it’s the last thing they will do.

Starting with the lowest ranked models first, we have the lab techs and already we have gone of piste. The artwork for the lab technicians shows them in white overalls, Mantic’s own demonstration miniatures likewise. However even using contrast paints, white isn’t the easiest effect to achieve and given it wasn’t me painting them I wanted to make these as easy to paint as possible. So I decided to go for a mint green, similar to the scrubs you see medical staff wearing which was achieved by mixing a little Talasar Blue into the Warplock Green.  Then rather than the yellow details on the original I opted for orange as it really contrasts the green.