Well I finally got some of Wargames Factory's Shock Troops/Greatcoat Troopers. They don't seem to have decided on one name, so both appear on the box. Anyway they are good little toy soldiers, nice and future fascist looking. Individually there not the best models in the world but in groups they certainly give the right impression. I painted up 11 the other weekend, as a bit of a test run. The uniform/coat colour is based on the Great War British colours. I would have gone for grey, but my GW Cadians have grey uniforms and I wanted to clearly distinguish them. They have black armour as it looks quite sinister, with the red eyes (and is quick to paint). I gave them brown boots and gloves, to offset the colours a bit, and the white stripes on the shoulders are rank markings. White both sides for troopers, half red on the right shoulder is something like specialist/PFC/Lance-Corporal. Whole red stripe on the right shoulder and white on the left are sergeants, and red both sides shows a soldier is an officer.
My only annoyance with the shock troops is the lack of weapon options available, it is comparable to the basic Cadian/Catachan infantry box, with a flamer and grenade launcher, but obviously the shock troops don't have a whole range behind them like the GW troops do.
Anyway I gave one the grenade launcher, but the flamer is well, really pathetic. I dont see any point in the other rifle options, so I gave all mine the standard issue one.
To fill out the options a bit I did a few conversions, the first simple arm/weapon swaps, one trooper got a Cadian flamer, one a Heavy bolter from the GW scout squad, and one a cadian radio back pack.
Anyway I gave one the grenade launcher, but the flamer is well, really pathetic. I dont see any point in the other rifle options, so I gave all mine the standard issue one.
To fill out the options a bit I did a few conversions, the first simple arm/weapon swaps, one trooper got a Cadian flamer, one a Heavy bolter from the GW scout squad, and one a cadian radio back pack.
Then I made an officer by cutting a space marine scout sword arm off just bellow the shoulder pad and gluing it on the a shock trooper shoulder pad, and then cut off the water-pistol of his other arm and glued a bolt pistol on instead, simple but pretty cool.
I've got one and a half boxes left to build and paint, but I think I need to get a few more cadian weapon arms, to give the shock troops some more special/heavy weapons. Till next time...
