UPDATE: As promised I have now completed my other two Ex Manus miniatures. The article has now been updated to include all the Ex Manus I own.
Being used to much smaller scales (6mm or 15mm), I found it challenging to get enthusiastic about painting 28mm. Hence the below miniatures took an inordinate amount of time to progress along the hobby conveyor belt, having sat with a basecoat or partial paint job for months or even years at a time.
However, the quality of the sculpts by Ex Manus (an Australian miniature maker) motivated me to complete them. Here are my takes on each of these miniatures.
Martian Crusader, c.25th Millennium
At some point between Phobos Acquisitions corporation and the Tech-Priests of the Mechanicum, are some tens of thousands of years, populated presumably by generations of Martian humans with their own stories, conflicts, armour and power weapons, acclimatised or acclimatising to the planet's conditions.
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Markswoman
This exceptional and sinister markswoman may be particularly suited to games of Infinity, providing long-range fire support for the Ariadna Merovingians I have stored somewhere. I converted her slightly to hold the hyper-modernised Dragunov differently (the sculpt has it over her shoulder), with a sling made from Green Stuff to help brace it. I went for a very simple paint scheme with a limited palette. Her coat is just black with Black-Grey highlights, which I selected instead of camouflage as she would need to better blend in with the civilian throng (after stashing the Dragunov of course, maybe in a cello case).
Eloi Resistance Fighter
I had some trouble figuring out what to call this one. Officially she is 'Novice Militant Gunner'. I wanted to use some static grass tufts and a green (but no camo) theme. I settled on this figure representing a militant Eloi who has taken up arms to break free of the Morlocks.
Spaceman
I'm just calling this figure 'spaceman' to be different, though the name on the label was, I think, 'Void Suit Explorer' or similar, which sounded much cooler. I painted this one very basically, though I figure he'd be up on the moonbase.
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