Sci Fi 6mm - The Infantry Wave

After a few days of hard slaving and paintbrush burning, here are the 202 infantry, crew, drones and heavy weapons that make up the foot soldiers for my 6mm Sci Fi project !

 

The idea is to choose one side - White or Blue/Green - for the infantry, and then flip through different "manufacturer catalogues" to add the vehicles, which are, as you have already seen, of varying colour schemes. 

 

Well, in truth this is not quite all the infantry.  I will be ordering some Power Armoured troops shortly for both sides, and I decided I would like a group of Assault Infantry, so more on that later.

All these chaps come from Brigade Games UK, from whom I also received a whole bunch of wonderful vehicles.  They will be next on the painting desk, alongside my Carnevale 28mm project.

I had been dreading painting these 6mm infantry, as up to now the only 6mm foot I have ever painted has been Cold War stuff. I hated that so much that I ended up using cardboard counters for infantry for my WWIII project, rather than having to paint more.

It turns out that painting brightly coloured 6mm is a thousand times more interesting.  I had so much fun, in fact, that I took a peek at Baccus' 6mm catalogue this evening...and I really like the look of their early 18th century stuff, starting with the Ottomans...