Haven't Given Up On The Lead

It has been a bit since I have posted anything about my miniatures projects. I have not been overly motivated to put brush to metal of late but I have been working on some things. The most active painting project has been the 2mm Land Ironclads stuff, but even that has been set aside. Another project was some troops for my VSF imagi-nation of Elistonia. I've included a few WIP pics to show you how these are going -

Rough color blocking showing the sorts of color being used. Elistonia is not a huge nation so expensive dyes are reserved for caps and officer's uniforms.

Packs, bread bags and simple bedrolls are carried by each Elistonian soldier.

The collected sum of what I have painted in 2mm for my Martian city-states. Approximately 360 citizen warriors, 240 household warriors, 69 tribal cavalry, 26 household cavalry, 15 sniper/scouts, 3 armored rumat brehr with cannon howdah, 3 unarmored rumat brehr each carrying 2 martian jezzails.

Martian infantry. The household warriors in the front were painted with more metallic color to show their better armor. They are also placed in closer order between the two lines to show better discipline. The two lines represent the Martian tactic of using "cutters" and "shooters" together.

A bit blurry but this picture shows the green of the Martian mounts under the yellowish skin and metallic armor and weapons of the Martians. These MArtians are painted as tribal warriors, recruited from the area around the city itself and are not well  armored. The household cavalry that I did have more metallic color on them and their mounts to show their better equipment. They are also based in lines as opposed to these tribal warriors who fight in loose wedges.