15mm Sci Fi - Khurasan Control Battalion

 This weekend I finally got around to painting my Control Battalion figures from Khurasan Miniatures.  These have been in my WIP pile for 10 months.  No longer.  These were a lot more trouble than I bargained for.  70+ figures are pretty good for 3 days work though.  

These figures are suitable for any future force which loves to oppress their citizens.  For Alien Squad Leader games these guys would work well in a number of armies, including as World War 2 German Occultists.   The Control Battalion will merge with my Khurasan Terror Troops (see my other post) and to form a larger force: a large regular infantry contingent backed up by several squads of elite infantry.

Khurasan Miniatures Control Battalion

The figures are good sculpts.  However, I think the molds are showing their age.  The helmets are the main selling feature of these models.  However, the details on mine were sorely lacking in some areas.  The helmet eye slit was almost non existent and the sensor dots on the helmet were almost impossible to discern.  There was considerable flash to clean up (no big deal...I am just spoiled by GZG figures) and the hands on many of the figures were barely sculpted at all.  Since these are now very old figures I will give them a pass on this.  Grade A overall.

I did not bother to paint the drones which came with the command packs.  To be honest, the sculpts were not clean at all.  GZG drones will sub in for these.  

I went with a light blue, with a suitable lighter grey white helmet.  

• Primed AK Grey
• Model airbrushed in Tamiya Light Blue.
• Helmet painted in Vallejo Model Air Light Gull Grey.
• Weapons painted in Vallejo Model Air Sea Grey
• Boots and Gloves & Visor Slits painted in Vallejo Model Air Dark Grey.
• Hard armor plates painted in Reaper Coated Armor.
• Sensors painted in Vallejo Model Color Red & Scarlet.
• Washed in Polyshades Tudor.
• Helmet highlighted in Vallejo Model Air White Grey.
• Some hard armor areas were highlighted with Coated Armor.
• To add some interest, dots in Vallejo Game Color Glacier Blue were added at various corner points where light would hit.  This causes the eye to move around the model and breaks up the areas.

I could have highlighted the fabric and other areas more.  By this point I was just too exhausted to continue.  

The visors were a pain since I had to paint the slits freehand.

The Battle Mechs are really old.  However, I think I painted them in the same scheme years ago.

Next up, Control Battalion vehicles.  Not sure if I will go with Old Crow hover vehicles (which I have in abundance) or pony up for some GZG Walkers.