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SICON Military Intelligence Agent is one of my favourite
models from the 'Heroes of the Mobile Infantry' boxed set,
it must be something about the great coat I like as the
model reminds me very much of the Russian Commissariat from
World War II.
The Military
Intelligence Agents, or 'Talents' in the film wore
black and dark grey uniforms with black great coats, but I
am not a fan of this colour scheme in the game as there is a
danger they will end up looking like Warhammer 40,000
Commissars, which is not what I was aiming for.
Instead I decided to
paint the model with a more muted palette of dark olive and
beige which hopefully would blend it in better with my tan
coloured Mobile Infantry Cap trooper platoon. I started with
my usual black undercoat which I then gave a base colour for
the cap and coat of a mix consisting of 2 parts black to one
part khaki grey and 1 part olive green. By adding in
increasing amounts of the khaki grey into the mix I layered
up the highlights and folds of the coat before giving the
entire model a wash of watered down black and brown ink with
a drop of khaki grey. When applying an ink wash to clothing
such as cloaks or tunics I always add a tiny drop of the
base colour paint to the ink mix as the small concentration
of pigment in the ink then stops the ink from reflecting
light and leaves the model with a more matt finish rather
than the satin sheen you get from pure ink, even when its
watered down.
The Neo Dog was
painted using almost exactly the same technique; a gradual
layering of highlights by adding increasing amounts of
desert yellow and beige to black before a watered down black
ink wash mixed with flat earth. For the pads on the dogs
paws and the highlights on the nose I simply used a 50/50
mix of black and bone. This was also used for the edge
highlight on the officers cap.
 For
the Skinny 'Advisor' I first of all removed its constrictor
rifle and replaced it with a Morita Assault rifle I had
spare to make sure there was no mistaking it was an
'Advisor' for the Mobile Infantry and not just another
Skinny Raider.
The suit colours for
the skinnies I found challenging due to having few decent
reference photographs to work from. Thumbing through what
pictures there were in the rulebook I noticed that
the skinnies clothing and armour was colourful, but also
muted in contrast. I started by adding both turquoise and
night blue to a black base, then adding increasing amounts
of turquoise to the mix for the gradual highlights. This was
then given an ink wash of black and blue ink before a final
turquoise and lightning blue mix was used for the final edge
highlights.
For the skin I started with a mix of
shadow grey and elf flesh which I then gradually added camo
green to for the colour shift on the forehead and around the
eyes. In creasing amounts of elf flesh was added to
highlight around the mouth before I used bone and white to
pick out the small bones either side of the cheeks and the
teeth.
For the intricate metal banding I
started with a 50/50 mix of bronze and tarnished gold, which
I highlighted with increasing amounts of bright gold and
finally silver. A thin wash of brown ink then helped give
the banding contrast against the rest of the suit. Finally,
I picked out a few details on the chest and helmet in red
and painted the eyes yellow with a black dot for the pupils.
Job done, two specialist agents for my
Mobile Infantry ready for action.
Next Up: CHAS.
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