It should be no secret that one of my favourite sculptor is Mark Copplestone; his future War range for Grenadier in the early 90s made a big impression on me. Since then he has gone back to his SF figures and it has been nice to finally get some paint on some of them.
These 10 figures are billed as ‘Partisans’ and are available here.
The ten of them come with four different gun types, two variations of assault rifles, an LMG and a SMG. Given their Russian/ Soviet stylings I painted them in a mix of green, khaki and Russian camo. As such they’ll be making an appearance in my Zone Afla games quite often. They are probably a bit too military to be fitted into neon drenched cyberpunk streets but I’ve my eye on some other models to fulfil those needs.
Cheers,
Pete.
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They look bloody excellent! Perfect for Zone Alfa! Or really any modern or recent gaming in the former Soviet neighborhood. Great work on those. 🙂
Thank you Azazel. I’ll be adding the more regular Neo Sovs to my collection as soon as possible given how much I liked these.
Cheers,
Pete.
Excellent work Pete and I have to agree Mark Copplestone does some great figures.
Thanks TIM.
Cheers,
Pete.
Really nice, Pete! 🙂 Quite a bit of variation in the figures as well!
Thanks John- yeah they are rather nice- plenty of character to them.
Cheers,
Pete.
Totally agree with you over Mr Copplestone, Mark is one of my all time favourite sculptors too, I love his stuff!
Lovely work on the painting too, have a great near future vibe to them,
Cheers Roger.
Thanks Roger- I would one day like to own the full set of the 90s Grenadier SF sculpts he did- it is something to work towards.
Cheers,
Pete.
You need to get over to EM4 miniatures, they have the old “Future Warriors” figures, but they don’t seem to be replacing them once they sell out now!
Cheers Roger.
Thanks Roger- I’ll head over there.
Cheers,
Pete.
Great work on these Pete, I like how you tided all the guns in together with the painting even that they are different weapons.
Thanks- I figured even if they are Partisan they’d look after their rifles, if only because they’d be the key to their survival.
Cheers,
Pete.
They certainly would!
Having good flashbacks as a Cold Warrior seeing these well-painted gems. Man, Copplestone is amazing (and your paint jobs here do the figures great justice Pete!).
Thanks Mark- I’ll take that as high praise.
Cheers,
Pete.
PS- some Cold War US coming soon.
Ah, the good guys (IMO)
Yup a full platoon’s worth to mirror my 6mm collection.
Cheers,
Pete.
Looking good. I picked up some Copplestone Sewer Scavengers for Zona Alfa. Very nice minis.
Thanks Luke- they really are great.
Cheers,
Pete.
Great work Pete 🙂
Thanks Wudgast.
Cheers,
Pete.
Good stuff. I like how they thematically match your tanks.
Thank you Ann. Always nice to have stuff looking like it belongs in a cohesive world.
Cheers,
Pete.
I agree. It is fun looking at one’s accumulated forces and seeing that they fit some kind of unified pattern/whole.
I think it helps that I’ve standardised my painting style now.
Cheers,
Pete.