Never is the distinction between painting for realism and painting for the tabletop more obvious than when it's time to paint some camouflage. Miniatures need to be readable from four feet away; relatively speaking that's like a commando trying to sneak up on someone in Elton John's iconic ensembles. Since we want our tiny tacticool terrors to look like they're ready to do the right kind of slaying, this means painting something that yearns to be camo, but isn't. I knew this to be true when I started painting three Eliminators for my Cobalt Scions. This didn't stop me screwing it up. I thought I was being clever. It seemed like a good idea to take the official camo scheme on the Eliminators, with all their sharp angles, but just change the colours to vaguely match my basing scheme, so browns and greens and greys. The original scheme. Copyright Games Workshop; used for illustrative purposes only to show the kind of shapes I used. This of course has been executed ...