Colonial Marines

[Suetonius Paullinus]

Tony Reidy from Defiance Games kindly sent me a couple of test sprues (4 minis with lots of options) of his SciFi US Marines the other day.
Well a few months ago actually...
Since I am not really into Science Fiction too much I put them aside for a while.
(To be honest I wasn't particularly thrilled by the sculpts and the helmets looked a little daft to me.)
Anyways, today I finally gave them a go and I tried several head alternatives ending up with a Warlord WWII US plastic head.
It was screaming 'Colonial Marines'!

The result:





Three more are on the workbench
I might actually try to source some more Defiant marines to build a 8-10 men squad.
And I still got this Tyranids army that has never been built, too. Hmmm..

Cheers

SP

[Humbugged]

Let's ROCK!!!
Looks great painted up. Love the cigar, nice touch!

[carvel2]

very nice indeed

[Stuart]

Fantastic, love it!And the camo........ I too have tyranids on the work bench ready to take on Colonials of a different kind "The sentries report, Tyranids to the south west, thousands of them"!

[Parus Ater]

You know, this is only the second time I've seen these and the first was an hour ago.

Weird.



Anyway, love it.

[Engel]

Great work!
You even made that sculp look cool.

[Fluffy05]

Hi S.P.

Great work on the camo. The helmet looks far better than the one supplied too.

You have made the models look so much better than the original

Happy painting,

Allan

[grant]

Great stuff. Very "Aliens" or "Starship Troopers"

[Parus Ater]

Aye, good call on the head. Marines in Aliens wore US M1's and the rifle does look a bit Thompsonesque at the back. Perfect. The more I look the more I want.

[Invisible officer]

Lovely work.

Only very steadfast historical gamers have no SF or Fantasy miniatures. Some are realy nice. And I'm absolutely not ste.........

Realy well done conversion.