At the Bottom of the Pile - Confrontation Scavvies

It's with a little apprehension that I embark on a final Confrontation journey. The only gang I've not yet painted are the scavvies - once I've completed a scavvy gang, I will have "completed" the Confrontation range. At least I've saved the best 'til last!

I plan to paint the scavvies in a couple of chunks. First up are the four Marauder scavvies sculpted by Aly Morrison. Aly's sculpts are always fun to paint with nice chunky details and characterful faces. I started with the two sporting fancy headgear!

A pair of scavvies scour the underhive for gear.

I spent a long time trying to work out a nice colour scheme on the scavvies. I didn't want it to be too brown and dingy, but at the same time it couldn't be clean and bright. I ended up on a trio of complementary colours (teal, yellow and purple) that I planned to use alongside some dirty browns, cream, grey and black. In hindsight, I wish the colour scheme wasn't quite as 'Boba Fett', but at least it works!!

I used the same unhealthy skin tone for the scavvies as I did for my Paul Muller cultists. On this first guy, I really like the bright flash of the yellow headscarf.

I wasn't 100% happy with the original finish to the colour scheme. I later came back and added the brown stripes to the tabard, which broke up a clean flat surface and added some nice additional detail.

I'm particularly pleased with the hazard stripes on his gas cannister.

The second scavvy got the same treatment, although I didn't think he needed the various stripes this time. It's not clear on the pic below, but the circular yellow glyph plates do have the classic scavvy emoji-type faces on them!

I'm really pleased with how this pair turned out. Can't wait to tackle the remaining Marauder scavvies next, then it'll be on to the Goodwin sculpts.