I
purchased a small collection of assorted metal guardsmen from eBay a year
ago. This collection includes the five
Catachan miniatures shown in this post: Colonel ‘Iron Hand’ Straken, a Catachan
Officer with a bolt pistol, a meltagun assault weapons trooper and two jungle
fighters with lasguns.
Unpainted
Catachan Jungle Fighters
Painted
Catachan Jungle Fighters (front)
Painted
Catachan Jungle Fighters (back)
I
choose two camouflage patterns for these miniatures: the four-colour woodland pattern
and the ‘tiger stripes’ pattern. The
four-colour woodland camouflage patterns is based on the woodland camo pattern
used by the U.S. Army throughout the 1980s and 90s. The ‘tiger stripes’ pattern is based on the
style of camouflage worn by the U.S. Special Forces during the Vietnam War.
The
next post in this series (part 2) will explore four more metal Catachan Jungle
Fighters, which includes the female grenade launcher jungle fighter (one of
four female metal guard miniatures produced in the 1990s).
