*Pictures* 1/30 Starcraft Terran Marine

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Well, I’m not really a sci-fi person, but this guy just looks too cool. He should be pretty recognizable to anyone familiar with Starcraft. Anyways it’s a 1/30 kit by Academy of a terran marine. It is built out of box, except for the tons of declas, which were spares from (mostly) german armor, plus I gave him some shell wounds with a heated paper clip. I also switched his “groin piece” because I liked the look, and hey, there’s no rivet-counting-detail-freaks in sci-fi. I was going to have his visor up, because I thought the human head made him look more like a soldier than a “mech” or robot, which I’m not really into. However my face painting was abominable, and I had some cool bronze paint to try out, so hey, why not. Painting went as follows:

Painting went as follows:

  1. Airbrushing with Games Workshop Regal Blue.

  2. Airbrushed lightened coat of GW Regal BLue mixed with Skull White.

  3. Coat of Future, then decals, then a sealer coat of Future.

  4. Oil paint “dot” method for a streaky look, using windsor and newton “yellow ochre” and “raw sienna”.

  5. Future coat

  6. Black wash

  7. Detail painting, and then dull coat

  8. Pigments for rust and dust

Hope you like him, he’s my first figure other than 1/35 guys thrown together to go with my tanks. Any comments/criticism, is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ian.

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Neat! I love powered armor. And I really like seeing stuff that isn’t the ubiquitous Gundam or Robotech/Battletech stuff.

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I love it!

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I am currently working on the Zerg Hydralisk 1/30 that academy also did. I hope I can make it look half as good as you made this guy look.

I really want to get my hands on this kit as well… I was hoping to get one of these and 2 more zergs so i could have a little diorama going on… but these kits are very hard to find.

I will try to post some pics of the zerg when I get done.

Very Nice Work!

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Nice work, bro!

I spent many a Sunday afternoon, controlling hordes of those little guys against the Zerg onslaught. Starcraft still holds up as a great game. Tons of fun…

I like this one alot. Do you know if Academy makes a seige tank??? [:P]

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Unfortunately academy makes only this and a Zerg Hydralisk. I beleive they had plans to branch out though, since one sprue for the marine is marked “Terran Marine, Medic, Firebat” so they probably had intentions for more. I too would love a Siege tank. It would probably have to be 1/35 or so though, because this “1/30” guy is almost twice as tall as a 1/35 soldier. A 1/30 tank would be ginormous.