Winter is coming...

 ...of course living in South Carolina in July, that may be more wishful thinking than anything.

Betcha that armor gets cold!

This yeoman is the latest test paint job for Trench Crusade, and has been rather well received by the TC players on the FLGS' discord. I ordered some new heads with different helmets to look more inline with the New Antioch faction than my first test model did (which was just one of my PHIGs in darker colors). 

Given the grimmer-darker than 40k vibe of the game, a lot of folks' color schemes seem to match that sentiment. As such,I wanted to try something different, brightening things up in an Ostfront sort of way. 

Heartwarming I know...

It seriously looks like the caked on mud is still in the process of drying. The darker patches are Vallejo's Dark Mud, painted over the AK Dry Ground diorama paint.

I'm also pleased with the new AK diorama paints that I recently bought in Tennessee. They not only make the basing look more realistic in the mud and snow combination of no-man's-land, but also the mud coating this guy's right leg armor. I intended it to look as though he just recently had taken a knee to steady his aim or else provide a smaller static target. 

The haggard backpack markings identify this yeoman as belonging to the 18th squad of New Antioch's Torchbearer Battalion. 

I've settled on this color scheme and have primed 4 more guys in white, including my warband's Lieutenant. I've also ordered some Heavy Mechanized infantry troopers to bring some serious punch to my warband. So be on the lookout for those sometime in the near future.