Rise of the Democracy: A Painters Dream

28mm version of the Veznekhod from Bot War. These 28mm versions of the Bot War miniatures are fantastic. 3d printed on demand I believe.

Atlantis Rises in this update. The evil King Gills and his retinue.

King Gills

Duke Aquarius

Diplomat

Captain Sargon and Atlantican Royal Guard

Baron Nautilus and Atlantican Heavy Infantry

So, Big reveal. If anyone has been following my project they will recognise that I have at last revealed the shaded out photo from my earlier post.

This…… Is the Red Star in glorious 28mm scale. And they’re fantastic miniatures. Full of character and pretty decent in game too (although playtesting is still continuing apace on the current iteration) with heaps of excellent details that really set them in a fictional 1980’s Soviet Russia.

Here we have Colonel Yuri, General Melkov, a Cyborg Legionnaire and the special character Cyborg Legionnaire OYH46.

Absolute pleasures to paint. And they certainly look the part of Soviet style faction fighting in the snow.

Foot Soldiers of the Red Star.

Ratnikovs Guard

Rostivachs Spetznaz

Corporal Mosievs Ice Guard

These guys are by no means the last of the Red Star miniatures to come. Coming up are 28mm versions of the Raptorborgs ?. Can’t wait to put some paint on them!

Anyway, Traders Galaxy are having a special offer for the current range of Red Star Miniatures till the 24th August. One of each of the whole current range in a bundle that is $120 dollars! That’s half price from buying these miniatures full price and separately. I have provided a link at the bottom of the post and I do recommend that you check them out.

Here’s the foot soldiers for the COILS as well as a Mongoose ATV and Viper assault vehicle.

This completes the first wave of COILS and Democracy for Rise of the Democracy. Upcoming models will be Red Star and Atlanticans. But I may leave them for next week.

In the second wave, we have COILS RPG and Flamethrower Squads, more characters and the Bots, Ghost, Mineshaft and Tunneler in 30mm scale! For Democracy we have more characters, Green Berets and the Valiant Not, Agis.

All Bot models will also have their alternative versions. Lots more upcoming and I’ll also cover the game rules and stats.

Faction switch today. This time it’s time for the Snake Corps secret labs organisation COILS to take the field.

General Venom is the man in charge of the COILS armed forces. Ruthless and maniacal.

Houndmaster is a cybernetically enhanced warrior. Changed through Bot technology to become a fearsome fighter he leads Steeljaw and Lockjaw in a hunt for COILS enemies.

Laser, well actually Laser is part of the Democracy ?. Sorry was just order I painted them in ?.

More COILS troops later today. Stay tuned for Blood Guard and a dude carrying a minigun.

Today’s reveals, Desert Dogs, Alabama (the guy with the GPMG and Beanie), Major Payne and Walkers Rangers.

Wonderful models, great sculpts. Not overloaded with details. The quality of Traders Galaxy models is top notch and they really are great to paint.

To start the process I began with the Democracy models. This faction is similar to the faction of the same name in Bot War but is made up of regular soldier types with special characters that fill specific rolls. A General, Heavy Weapon specialist, Medic, dude riding a flying bike ?.

I Started all the models with a grey primer, then hit them with Corax White to create some light and shadow and finally a pure white to give the highest points some points of light.

Base colours were kept very simple using contrast colours for the most part and then highlighting from that point. I find contrast a wonderfully useful tool and love the vibrant almost 2nd edition tones they provide.

I have completed a huge amount of minis so far but I figured it would be best to document these gradually so I’ll drop more updates on these wonderful miniatures over this week.

Coming Up:

Democracy Desert Dogs

COILS General Venom and Red Guard

ATLANTICANS

and……. Red Star rising?!