Painting Tutorial- Painting the Scourge Heavy Infantry: Eviscerators and Destroyers

Since I've had a few requests I thought I'd post up a quick "how to" on creating the bone coloured/blood fused Scourge heavy infantry I've recently finished.  Right now this is just a preview but over the next couple of weeks I'll be finishing a second set and doing a step by step.

In the meantime, here are my miniature minions of evil:

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Finding Inspiration

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain

Applying the colours, using the various techniques, and finishing a model takes time, patience, and effort.  But that's the fun part of the creation process.

The hardest part in painting for me has always been just finding the right scheme.  It's in that "getting started" phase in which I spend the most time and have the most frustration. Test bed models, ruined paint schemes...I have buckets of figures with half done paint jobs, odd colours, and minor dents (from me tossing the poor things back into a box!).  The challenge of finding the right colours, the right base coats and highlights, and all the final details is the mountain I have to climb before finally sitting down in front of a painted figure and having the joy of accomplishment that comes after that last coat of varnish.

It's to that end that I want to explore the things I use for inspiration...
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Updates to Dropzone Commander and some new toys

The sound of the rain beats heavily on my window pane. The wind howls and the rumbling of my furnace kicks in.

The painting gods are saying "stay in Brian...your minis need you". Damn painting gods and their thrice cursed foretelling of winter...

(Translation: It was a cold and damp weekend and that means it was a perfect time to get some painting done.)

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Week 6 - Painting the PHR for Dropzone Commander

Another week and a bit more progress. This time I'm focusing on the PHR the second faction I'm collecting for Dropzone Commander.

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The Post Human Republic are the ruthless hyper-intelligent members of those parts of humanity that fled before the coming of the Scourge.  Influenced by an alien device that came to warn the Earth of the invasion they are a shadowy enclave of women and men who have decided to rise above the influence of pure nature and enhance themselves with the power of the machine.

In battle they are a slow and steady, a relentless march of sophisticated walkers and cyber-enhanced infantry. A mix of cyborgs from Ghost in the Shell and the special Ops of Black Widow they are elite core of technophiles, a near perfect blending of man and machine.

They believe that they are the future of humanity - they are humankind, 2.0.
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Dropzone Commander - Week 5 Progress of my Scourge for Dropzone Commander

Here is quick review of my work in progress Drop Zone Commander Scourge army. This is my week 5 update on painting. The hope is to get a full army painted (1000 points to start) in 2 months. I've made decent progress but there's quite a bit to go.

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