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The boxed game comes with a good assortment of miniatures.
You get 10 Termagants, 6 Genestealers, 8 Spore Mines, 10 Space Marines, an Imperial Pilot, and a set of crashed Imperial Aquila Shuttle terrain pieces.
I primed the Space Marines with a can of UltraMarines blue and the Tyranids were primed black.
I had painted up a combat squad of UltraMarines earlier this year and I must say that I should have primed them black and then coated them in blue after to allow for a deeper blue base coat.
I'm still working on painting up the shuttle pieces and the Space Marines but one of the figures is complete, Lt. Varas.
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He has been painted in the colors of the UltraMarines which are blue and white.
To keep things simple, I used Ultramarines Blue as a base for his coat and white for his pants. Black is used on most of his leather items (boots and belts) though I did do his holster in a brown leather color scheme to add a little bit of variety to his color palette.
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The base was coated with some light gravel to give it texture.
As you can see from the front, his metallic parts were first painted black and then dry-brushed with a metallic silver color.
In regards to his bolt pistol, I stuck with a mostly black coloring with gray highlights.
His skin tones were done with a simple coat of Flesh colored paint and then lined with a slightly darker color.
I know this piece is not going to win any awards but... It looks damn fine on the table and blows away most of the local competition I play against.