Lost Patrol Miniatures

 I finished up the last of the miniatures for Lost Patrol last night.  

The lot of them. 

Marines

I was thinking Howling Griffons colours, but instead of the quartered I went with more of a disruptive/camouflage pattern. I like doing weird coloured camouflage. Most modern camouflage is visual, trying to match the colours of the surrounding terrain. Some now incorporate patterns to mess with digital visual enhancers (night vision viewers, etc). In the far future where most opponents are equipped with sensory equipment that looks beyond the regular visual spectrum that human eyes can see - or aliens that simply SEE different spectrums? Visual camouflage might be entirely useless! Hence most marines in the 40K universe not bothering with camouflage. For those that are trying to be stealthy, what will the camouflage they wear look like, what different colours or patterns be required to disrupt the what the enemy sees or otherwise senses...? who knows... so... crazy coloured camouflage. 

I did the armour in one colour/pattern and the cloth uniform they're wearing underneath in another. I was trying to echo the marines of the movie Aliens which wear mis-matched camouflage - their fatigues are grey with browns and green (not disimilar to more modern "multicam"... but their armour is more of a brown with green "woodland" patter. (And also Canadians and Americans - and probably others - that deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan initially in mismatched camouflage - I seem to recall Canadians initially deployed to  Afghanistan had tan/desert fatigues and temperate/woodland armour). Even in the far future of the 41st millenium, soldiers (even the Space Marines of the Adeptus Astartes) sometimes have to just make due with what they have on them! 

While I was at it, I painted two other scouts I happen to have - one with a rocket launcher of the same vintage as the ones included in the set, and a metal scout sniper... just because. I'd meant to do an entirely different camouflage on the sniper's cape... but it's currently only purple, because I couldn't really decide on a pattern I liked... I'll probably go back and add something at some point. maybe a blur/purple splinter pattern of some sort...? 

Genestealers

Same classic Blue/Purple pattern I've done all Genestealers I've painted in (moslty for Finnegan's collection) but with grassy bases to match the tiles of the game - rather than the industrial/spaceship interior bases I'd done on the others. 

And the Infestation Markers... 

There were also three rippers on the sprues...  so I based them individually... Probably should have saved them to use as bonus base details on larger models at some point...? 

Now to actually PLAY the game!!!

It would be nice to get in a game today or tomorrow... as I've not played a LOT of games in October and it's made me a little sad. 

On the plus side, I've got Amanda and Finnegan onboard to forge ahead and finish off Shadows over Hammerhal on their own - and we might even play THAT tonight!

If I don't get in a game today or tomorrow, Brent is coming over to give it a try on Friday. Maybe if I get the Ghosties and Stormcasts done by then we could try out Crypt Hunters as well! 

Stay tuned for some GAME REPORTS! 

(I realized AFTER posting this, that I left one of the painted Genestealers on the painting desk... so there are 12 of them that are painted... one is just missing from all of these pictures!?)