From the painting desk #24 – Ethnic diversity
September 22, 2013Finished another three of Pig Iron’s Heavy infantry. I hate batch/assembly line painting, so I try to do my best to keep it interesting. This usually results in me adding different ethnicities in units. It not only makes the unit look more interesting, but also better reflects real world and my scifi visions. While WH40K’s Space Marines might be a race of genetically enhanced super-Aryans, I like to make my units a bit more multi-cultural. To illustrate, in 2008 Black and Hispanic members made up over a third of the US Army, and I think the diversity has been, is and will be on the increase.
Realism aside, it serves to break up the monotony of a unit wearing the same armour and BDUs. In the latest group of three, I picked three different skin colours. One was my regular caucasian skin tone, one a reddish mid-range brown and one a very dark brown.
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In my opinion the end result is quite nice, what do you think?
Dawn of the Lead 
I like them, but I have been practising equal rights with mine since the 80’s… Black Power!
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I try to do the same as much as possible. It gives a much better look on the tabletop.
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