THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE HAMMER’S SLAMMERS THE CRUCIBLE RULES SYSTEM HANDBOOK Click pictures to enlarge Assembling and painting The strike platoon pictured here (shown here alongside a couple of Old Crow Geckos) consists of nine vehicles with three different turret types. I used the very nice turrets from Old Crow; I guess I could have sculpted my own but I got lazy at this point. What I did do to make each vehicle into an individual was to sculpt rolls and tarpaulins onto them. Pellets of green stuff, shaped with a dentist's tool and the back of a knife blade were quite quick and easy; I added about two dozen rolls to the nine vehicles you see here in about an hour and a quarter, including the first few which were pulled off and re-done. Once everything was assembled, I hit them with a sprayed black undercoat followed by craft colour paints; two coats of 'light avacado' for the armour, a mid-gray for the tyres and details, mid-brown for the stowage and a dry-brush of a sandy colour across everything. I have learned that you need to start a couple of shades paler than you think if you're going to use a wash for shading. Once the basics were in place, I blacked out the armoured glass windows, and I painted the markings at this point too; a black-on-white version of the Apex Dragoon symbol so that it would show up on the green armour. Next, a spray of satin varnish to get a consistent surface across the whole model, before I brushed a coat of GW Devlan Mud over everything. After I had spruced up the glass with a bit of blue paint, I glued them all to bases (yes, my axles weren't perfectly in line with each other) and sprayed a coat of Army Painter Matt Varnish across everything.  Colin Hagreen All photographs and models by the author. Links Colin’s Blog: Wulfweb Casting supplies and equipment: Tiranti  Turrets: Old Crow Early Apex Dragoons in 15mm - by Colin Hagreen