Harlequins - The Completed Squad

 So here are the last two harlequins, at least for the moment. I bought them both on ebay. One is just a regular chap. He was missing his left arm from the elbow down, so I replaced it with a dark elf arm that was holding a dagger point-down. The many pads on his armour made him quite difficult to paint, and it was hard to put a lot of checks on the plates.

The other chap is, I think, an old solitaire model. I tried to give him a slightly darker colour scheme, which isn't very obvious. The odd crystaline gun he carries is a neuro disruptor. I've no idea what it does, beyond disrupting neuros.

Here is the whole group. I have to say, I'm very pleased with them all. I think I got increasingly confident as the squad grew, and I could add smaller markings and brighter colours. 

While painting these, I suddenly realised that almost none of them had the grinning face-masks that I associate with harlequins. Most have very stylised masks that don't look like any particular species. Only one, who might be a minor champion, has a mask with a face on it, and that's only half a face (the other half is smooth and featureless). 

Looking at the old late-80s colour schemes, the checks-on-everything painting style hadn't appeared yet, either. It's sort-of-interesting that the style we have now took a couple of iterations to work out.

Anyhow, I've very pleased with this squad. They're probably some of the best models that I've ever painted, and I've really enjoyed doing them. Now I'm going to convert something and paint it in drab, messy colours. I think I've earned that!