To Boldly Go Where no Schlock Has Gone Before!

The Simian Empire is the other faction provided in the core box and offer a close ressemblance of the original Planet of the Apes movies.

I am providing below the painting scheme I used for these units:

Skin and fur – I prefer a variety of skins and furs so a to diversify the units. These of course may not be realistic but keep in mind thee are space simians.

Skin

• Base: GW Contrast Black Legion – Highlight: Medium grey (any)
• Base: GW Contrast Basilicum Grey – Highlight: Light grey (any)
• Base: GW Contrast Guliman Flesh – Highlight: Cadian Fleshtone

Fur

• Base: GW Contrast Black Templar – Highlight: Light grey (any)
• Base: GW Contrast Cygor Brown – Highlight: GW Doombull Brown

Uniforms

Shirt/pant – Base: GW Contrast Leviathan Purple – Highlight (drybrush + layer): GW Slaneesh Grey

Padded Vest – Base: GW Contrast Cygor Brown – Highlight (drybrush + layer): GW Doombull Brown and Tuskgor Fur.

Shoulder pad/Harness/Belt: Army Painter Contrast Hardened Leather.

Shoes: GW Contrast Snakebite Leather – Soles: Black.

Helmets:

• Grunts – Leadbelcher + Vallejo Chrome accents.
• Officer – GW Retributor Gold + Vallejo Chrome accents.

Weapons: Base: Black – Drybrush Metal GW Leadbelcher + Vallejo Chrome accents. – Wood: GW Contrast Wildwood.

Dr. Zayce

Robe – GW Contrast Aggaros Dune

Scarf – GW Contrast Snakebite Leather – Highlight with light brown (any)

Shirt – GW Contrast Warp Lightning – Highlight Skarsnik Green

Base

American Canyon Orange – Shade: Howe brown shade – Highlight (drybrush): Americana Peache’s Cream – Aquarium rock: GW contrast Roxigor Scale – Gamers Grass.

Doctor Zayce

Mongo-rilla

The USSS Explorer Corp is one of the two factions provided in the core box and I decided to start with it, as it appealed to the old Trekky in me. I planned the color schemes around a landing party and thus wanted to represent most of the Explorer Corp divisions in it, for old school SciFi flavor.

First, I had to come up with said schemes and I designed them as follows:

• Command – Red and black
• Security – Red
• Science and Medicine – Blue
• Engineering – Yellow
• Communication – Green

All pants, belts and boots – Black

So as to make following up the painting process easier, I am going to list the paints used below as a group before showing the end results.

• Command – Red and black (see Security and Pants below)
• Security – GW Contrast Blood Angel Red – Highlights: GW Evil Sunz Scarlet
• Science and Medicine – GW Contrast  Ultramarine Blue – GW Oeth Blue
• Engineering – GW Contrast IyandenYellow Highlights : GW Yriel Yellow
• Communication – GW Contrast Ork Flesh – Highlights: GW Moot Green

Al white uniforms areas : GW Contrast Apothecary White – Highlight: Any flat white.

Pants, Belts and Guns: GW Contrast Black Templars – Highlights: drybrush GW Eshin Grey and Dawnstone

Boots – GW Contrast Black Legion – Highlights : drybrush GW Dark Reaper and Thunderhawk Blue