Dust Tactics: The Hammers

This squad of 'Hammers' for Dust Tactics were pretty easy to paint, I even managed to salvage the pre-printed insignia on their chests.

Soft plastic figures do present a bi of a challenge when it comes to de-flashing. To be fair to Fantasy Flight and to the whole Dust studios production team, the models were pretty sound in the first instance.
The Hammers
I was pleased that I was able to keep them relatively light although I still think they could have benefited from lighter base-coats. After finishing these I started exploring some slightly lighter tones to replace my standard 'olive drab variants' palette.

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    1. Thanks Simon. Definitely a learning curve with these. I'd painted zombies and survivors for so long I just wasn't used to anything with a military theme

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  2. Great paintjob on these; are the bases specific for Dust ?

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    1. Thanks Joe, yes, all Dust miniatures have very specific and characteristic design. The plan is to replace them all fully with resin bases, hence the lack of treatment

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  3. Great work sir. I didn't realise they were soft plastic. Are all the range?

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    1. Thanks Bob. Yes, they're reasonably hard in general terms but they are flexible and when using a file to remove any flash you have to spend a bit more time as what you remove often stays attached, simple enough to go over with a knife, but still different to hard plastic. The vehicles are hard plastic by the way

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