Soldiers from Instances Past

There’s quite a collection of figures that I shared long ago on miniatures.photography before that instance eventually closed down for good. I managed to save most of the old photos I shared from back then. Since it’d be good to get them online again, I’ve decided I’ll try and trickle them out between my new stuff.

In May of 2023 I painted up some reaper bones sci-fi figures. My colour scheme for them was inspired by a post I’d seen at the time by TheNoobPainter – He’d done a rather cool teal and silver paint-scheme for some battlemechs. I quite liked how these two colours popped and I decided to try a similar (if less metallic) version of the scheme.

The Noob Painter*

I think Terradon Turquoise is the winner here for accent color.


Also really digging the orange canopies.

April 26, 2023, 5:53 PM 1 boosts 9 favorites

I had some Reaper Bones sci-fi figures that already I’d picked to be one of the first things to paint on the new workbench. For a bit of visual interest I decided that dark grey armour with and pop of teal on the left shoulder and gloves and another on the right boot would look pretty cool and decided to try that out.

I had recently bought a bunch of Reaper Master Series paints, and two of their colour triads provided the base of this scheme. The Neutral Greys triad (Stormy Grey #09088, Cloudy Grey#09089 and Misty Grey #09090) was excellent for the dark grey armour and their Ocean Colors triad (Deep Ocean #09076, Marine Teal #09077 and Surf Aqua #09078) worked well for the colour pop. For the weapons I generally went with two Vallejo Model Colour paints (Glossy Black 70.861 as the base coat with highlights using Dark Blue Grey 70.904).

Some washes were used, but I didn’t keep any notes. I know I used Army Painter Dark Tone for the armour and weapons and I may have used either their Blue Tone (or, potentially a mix of Blue Tone + Dark Tone) for the teal pieces.

Several miniatures in grey power armour stand on a teal blue craft mat. Each has one shoulder pad, boot and glove painted in bright teal blue.
Another photo of five miniatures in grey power armour stand on a teal blue craft mat. Highlights and jewelling has been applied to their glass domed helmets.
A close up of one of the space marines shoeing the edge highlights on the armour and the highlights and shading in their helmets.
Several partially painted miniatures stand on a cyan craft mat. Each is painted in grey with one bright teal blue shoulder pad and one bright teal blue boot.
Four painted soldiers stand on an acrylic shelf. They wear body armour and have an assortment of weapons (one flamer, one gattling cannon and two rifles). All of them have one bright teal shoulderpad and one bright teal boot.

Since I’m re-posting these, I decided to see if I could improve on my mini-photography process. I setup a neoprene gaming mat and an appropriate bit of terrain as a backdrop, found a decent lamp to provide some good lighting and took a few photographs. I’m pretty happy with the result.

Two troopers in dark grey power armour stand near a bunker. On each one boot and the opposite shoulder pad are painted bright teal.
Two troopers in dark grey power armour stand in front of a dark grey bunker. Both hold dark black rifles and have a shoulder pad, boot and glove that are bright teal.
Two soldiers in grey body armour stand in front of a grey bunker. Both have one teal shoulderpad and one teal boot. One also wears a teal and grey full-face helmet, with the other wearing a communication headset.
Two soldiers in grey body armour stand in front of a dark grey bunker. Each has one teal boot and one teal shoulderpad, with one also sporting a teal bandana. One wields a gattling gun and the other wields a flamer.

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