"Kitchen Sink" Sci-Fi Skirmish Figures

[Luddite]

Lovely mins there and a great idea for the cloaked predators!

Have you painted up any uncloaked?

[WarrenAbox]

Lovely mins there and a great idea for the cloaked predators!

Have you painted up any uncloaked?

Not yet.  I'm still tinkering with my rules, so not sure if I'll even need any.  If I do want some decloaked, they're cheap enough, I'll just add a pack to my next order.

[Squirrel]

Might be tricky getting them done in 10mm...!  I have seen the 28's, but I can't remember who did them though.

Originally 'Ainsty Castings' .... not sure if they are still available.

Cheers,

Kev

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thanks Squirrel, been trying to remember where I got mine from all weekend!

[WarrenAbox]

Alien time.  I painted mine green:

[WarrenAbox]

Queens, too:


Tried a different technique where I started with a bright green and drybrushed up in darker colors to try and give these bad boys an 'interior glow' kind of look.  I don't think it worked very well.  These sculpts are a little too detailed, and the proportions so alien that they look like green blobs on the table.  I recommend anyone looking to paint these up would do well to paint the bodies in one color and the limbs in a contrasting color - that would help sell them as strange bipeds.

And here's a scale comparison of painted aliens with a painted marine.

[Techno]

I can see what you were trying to achieve Warren....But you're right...Don't think it quite worked.
A thin black wash might just work perhaps ?....If you don't mind repainting the bases.....It's bound to flow to the bases if you do a wash.
Just a thought.
Cheers - Phil

[Leon]

They look OK to me, but I can see what you mean.  It could be the way that kind of affect tricks the eye more than the colour scheme though, and throws them off a bit?  As Phil, just said, a basic wash can look great on these, there were some purple ones knocking about somewhere I think.

[WarrenAbox]

That's not a bad idea.  I'll try a test wash on one figure and see how it works out.  (Probably should have tested the dark on bright technique on a single figure first - not like they're so expensive I can't afford to lose one if it doesn't work out.)

[WarrenAbox]

So...I took Leon's advice, and this looks way better to me:

[nikharwood]

Yep - those are much better - very coolio 

[FierceKitty]

A thin black wash might just work perhaps

The Black Wash - was that the 42nd Space Marines?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Depends whether they overtook the 43rd Space Marines?

[Techno]

That wash has worked !
Cheers - Phil.

[Poggle]

I agree, the wash certainly helped. They look good!