Some straight-up Green Marines!

We were matching a client’s color scheme with these. The colors were straightforward. What’s different with these from what we’d normally do, was the use of crackle medium and the red tufts.

Crackle Medium

First we dabbed on some PVA glue in areas on the basing. A PVA undercoat makes the crackle effect more pronounced. When it dried we added the crackle. Crackle medium is great, it needs to go everything. It takes an hour or so to start cracking.

Red Tufts

We didn’t have any. We just took some yellow ones and painted them red.

basing matters

You can add a lot to a mini’s table presence with some simple basing. More advanced basing will make them badass, but there is a trade-off. The more you fancy up a mini, the more it will jar with the table when you put it down. It comes down to what you prefer.

I like going a bit on the fancy end for my own minis. I rarely get to play, so display matters a bit more for me.

Paintedfigs is a miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).