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2025 Painting Log
Attack of the Neo-Aquilons
Getting back to the Lost Heresy Away Team Red range for a moment. A friend of mine bought a batch of the Romulan stand-ins and gave me two of them, so I told him I’d do up a painting guide that he could use for the rest of them (our eventual goal is to pit his Romulans against my Federation, most likely using Modiphius‘ Red Alert miniatures rules). This seemed like a great opportunity to blatantly steal from hazyboy75 and maybe rack up some of those coveted tutoring points…
The Neo-Aquilon uniforms are a weird mix of the Original Series and Next Generation Romulans — I wanted to do them primarily in Original Series colors, but since the models aren’t an exact match I had a little leeway, which I decided to exercise by adding a color to the right sleeve.
I’ve been re-watching the Original Series and I’ve been quite taken by the bright color palette they used for the costumes and especially the backgrounds, so I thought I’d reflect that by adding some tufts from the Gamers Grass Mystic Nebulae Set.
For the base coat I started with a coat of black primer, then drybrushed up to a light grey using a few progessively lighter shades.
Most of the Next Generation Romulans tended to be a bit on the dark-skinned side, so I did the faces and hands in Tanned Shadow and then hit it with a wash mixed with a few drops of Speedpaint Medium. I did the boots, pants, forearm sleeves, and weapons in Grim Black Speedpaint.
The shoulder straps were done in blue and dark pink mixed with a bit of silver for a metallic sheen. Gunmetal and gold metallics for the officer's sword and the soldier's helmet. I also went over the "sandal straps" on the boots in Gunmetal.
I did the upper right sleeves of each in the same color as the shoulder strap, lightened up with a bit of Misty Grey. The tunics were a little light so I darkened them down with Gravelord Grey Speedpaint mixed about 2:1 with Speedpaint Medium.
Red or blue washes for the sleeves and shoulder straps, and a Strong Tone wash for the soldier's helmet. I used Burnished Red Speedpaint for the bases but it came out a little dark, so I'll lighten it up later with a lighter reddish brown.
After brushing on some highlights to the faces and hands using Tanned Skin, I lightened the bases with a glaze of Army Painter Dryad Brown (not shown, sorry!). Then I hit both models from top to bottom with a light drybrush of Ancient Stone (what I use instead of Hazyboy75's Brainmatter Beige) to add some additional highlights.From here it’s just a matter of cleaning up the base edges and varnishing. For varnish I’ve been using a coat of Army Painter Matt Varnish, which is actually more of a semi-gloss/satin finish, and then a 1:1 mix of AK Interactive Ultra Matte and Speedpaint Medium (I find the finish of the AK Ultra Matte to be a little too chalky on its own).
2025 models painted so far: 212, for 13 different games
