"Kitchen Sink" Sci-Fi Skirmish Figures

[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! 

[WarrenAbox]

Ever wonder what those "Minotaurs with heavy weapons" look like?  Wonder no more:



For scale, that's a human marine in between the big guys.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cool! Great figures and nice painting. 

[Squirrel]

Thanks for the photos - I had been wondering

They painted up very well.

Cheers,

Kev

[WarrenAbox]

I'm not entirely sure why some of the sci-fi lizardmen with laser weapons are wearing pants and some are not, but they all look pretty cool regardless.  I tried painting their guns dark red for contrast, but the guns just faded into the background of my terrain boards, so I brightened them up with silver, then took out the flash with a coat of Devlan Mud.





And one shot just for scale:

[Luddite]

These are excellent!

Leon you SERIOUSLY have to get the photos of your stuff done and on the web.  What other little gems like these are languishing in your catalogue?!?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Really nice work! So cool! 
Still want to see Lizardman on skateboard!

[Rothgar68]

Very cool stuff!

[nikharwood]

Those are really nice 

[WarrenAbox]

Really nice work! So cool! 
Still want to see Lizardman on skateboard!

What's this then?  I might have to pick up a pack just for giggles.  What's the product number on that?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

AC18 Lizard Boy on a skate board.
May just have to order one for Colours to see what it is!