Morat Vanguard Infantry

Hello dear readers :) I went on a bit of an Infinity binge awhile back and bought up a whole Morat sectorial (all the new sculpts anyway). They have been staring at me accusingly from my display cabinet for quite a long time now and I finally decided to start painting them, as a rough colour scheme had slowly evolved in my muddled brain.

 

To begin I went with the basic grunts of the force, the vanguard infantry. While not very good particularly in game they are lovely models, and were a real pleasure to paint. Corvus Belli have really upped their game on the more recent sculpts, and these were no exception.

I wanted to do a scheme that was pretty simple to do, and did not involve many processes. My hope was that I could knock them out pretty quickly, mainly using drybrushing and washes to achieve as much of the shading and highlighting as possible. These were not going to be to a standard I tried for my Japanese, but more tabletop, so I skimped on alot of areas to speed up the paint job.

The base of the models were sprayed silver, then given a wash of nuln oil. After this I drybrushed with mythril silver on all the armour plates and did an agrax earthshade wash to blend everything together and dirty it up a little. The trousers were painted gretchin green, washed with seraphim sepia, then bought back up to base green again, with a final highlight of bleached bone mixed into the green. The guns were all simply drybrushed with 2 stages of grey, then washed all over with nuln oil to blend it back to black again. It was at this point they were looking a little dull so I decided to add some colour on the shoulder guards, shin pad surrounds and top chest plate, and I chose the turquoise and orange as they compliment each other nicely. Again these were simply washed and then re-highlighted the same way as the green. I decided to stick with the fluff and go with the red faces of the monkeys, and felt that a sandy hair colour would set everything off nicely.

For the basing I did not want to go down the resin route (as it is a pain in the arse to do, and ends up being quite pricey), and wanted to achieve a fast and effective way to finish the models off. I imagined the Morats fighting on a more desert world, and my eye fell upon the martian crackle paint GW had recently released. Perfect! This tied in nicely with the khaki pants too. I ordered some army painter tufts to go with the basing, and used secret weapon shell casings for that little added interest and variety on the bases. They are not too complicated to do but I feel they do compliment the minatures nicely, with the added bonus of being cheap and relatively quick to do (which was the aim)

Overall I am really pleased with the scheme, and it was refreshing to be able to paint quickly using mainly drybrushing and washes for large areas, and more simple highlighting (I say quickly, as they still took a while, but nowhere near as long as my Japanese sectorial models).

NafNaf out :)

 

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