{"id":6348,"date":"2016-03-16T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:35:14","slug":"the-alaudae-legion-ready-for-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/the-alaudae-legion-ready-for-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alaudae Legion – Ready for Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the end of last year we released<\/a> some unit packs and a couple of vehicles for a new Hammer’s Slammers<\/a> mercenary force, the Alaudae Legion<\/a> (which translates to ‘The Skylarks’).<\/p>\n

Over the last few weeks I’ve been putting together an Alaudae force in anticipation of getting them on the table in the near future. I’ve painted one of each detachment type in the Alaudae army list<\/a> – Armoured<\/a>, Heavy Armoured<\/a> and Infantry<\/a>. This has made for an armour-heavy force of 21 vehicles and just three infantry sections, so I painted a few extra infantry in case I felt the force needed a bit more balance. However, they’d be a very good match for any other armoured unit in a tank fight.<\/p>\n

Because I was painting a lot of vehicles at one go, I went for as simple a colour scheme as I could. After assembly, the vehicles were undercoated using Halfords’ grey automotive primer. This is my favourite primer as it gives a solid opaque coat with a nice matt surface and will stick to just about anything – and comes in big cans as well. I drybrushed straight onto this primer coat with Citadel Longbeard Grey. I then broke out the airbrush and sprayed random camouflage stripes in Tamiya Olive Green, and drybrushed the stripes in Citadel Nurgling Green. That was it for the base colours, a very simple 4-stage process that very quickly resulted in 21 tanks in 2-colour camouflage with highlighting.<\/p>\n