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Dakka gallery of current WIP and finished miniatures (future updates will be posted both here and to the gallery):


http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-11374-49693_Alien%20Vs%20Predator.html



First finished Colonial Marine:














Aliens:
















Predators:
















Marine objective markers:












WIP Predator conversions:

Very nice work, good to see some of these finally making it out into the wild.

Lovely work, subbed in expectation of more awesomeness! The painted stuff is all spot on, and the conversion work is looking good too!

Really cool. How did you achieve the shiny black on the Aliens? It looks amazing.

EDC

Very, very nice indeed. I really like the glossy Alien heads, so evocative of the original film. Great speckled skin on the predators too and the Marines have a beautiful paintjob...... but I'm guessing they're not going to last too long on the battlefield!

Nice aliens. So like in the movies. I want a step by step of that super glossy finish.

M.

Thanks guys.

 evildrcheese wrote:
Really cool. How did you achieve the shiny black on the Aliens? It looks amazing.

EDC

 Miguelsan wrote:
Nice aliens. So like in the movies. I want a step by step of that super glossy finish.

M.

I'm painting them in two versions of this method.

Infant Warriors and Stalkers:

- Spray black
- Base coat with 50/50 black/gun metal
- Glaze with 40/60 black wash/acrylic medium (henceforth, just "glaze")
- Drybrush with previous black/gunmetal mix
- Drybrush with pure gun metal
- Wash of 30/30/30 Bestial Brown, acrylic medium and water, applied onto the ribcage, throat, belly, behind the knees, between toes/fingers, between tail sections and into any "vents" or "gills" on the model.
- Drybrush medium silver
- Glaze
- Drybrush medium silver, more selectively toward the face, hands etc
- Glaze
- VERY light drybrush of bright silver on the prominent areas mentioned above
- Pick out a few details such as segmented sections, musculature of the triceps, etc with thinned down purple wash.
- Glaze
- Pick out teeth with bright silver, paint cranium black
- Finish with gloss varnish. I paint it on rather than spraying due to humidity and the improved control. You may have to coat the cranium twice to achieve a perfect finish though.



For the adult Warriors and heavier stuff like Royal Guard, I skip the brown stage and then when I get to the purple wash, do all those details at that stage (but a bit more carefully).



Also for anyone wondering, the Predator skin is just a base coat of GW Rakarth Flesh, a wash of Army Painter Soft Tone, then several stages of careful Rakarth Flesh drybrushes alternated with 50/50(ish) glazes of Soft Tone/acrylic medium, finished with some fine highlights of Rakarth and a 10/90 glaze of Soft Tone/medium.




Here are a few other pics from the gallery, for those not inclined to click around all over the place:

Spectacular models well painted, beautiful stuff.

ReductiveTendencg wrote:
Very, very nice indeed. I really like the glossy Alien heads, so evocative of the original film. Great speckled skin on the predators too and the Marines have a beautiful paintjob...... but I'm guessing they're not going to last too long on the battlefield!

Interestingly, from what I've hard the Marines get chomped as quickly as you'd expect... in small games. Once they have a decent number of bodies on the table they turn into a tsunami of dakka.

Great work, and that's a lot of Predators! I'll be checking back to your paint recipes when I start mine

Where did you get the objective marker models, they are brilliant...

Very nice work! The only thing I'd recommend is maybe bulking up the predator arm holding the sabre.

 Ruglud wrote:
Great work, and that's a lot of Predators! I'll be checking back to your paint recipes when I start mine

Where did you get the objective marker models, they are brilliant...

They're cobbled together out of quite a few different things.

Copied from FB:

The three smaller bases are Fenris Games "sulaco" 50mm, the big one is a Micro Art Studio "Tech" 60mm. The crates, cables, observation gear and computers are from various Dreamforge Games "Eisenkern" kits, apart from the large square crate which is a resin piece for Deadzone (Mantic). The guns are variously from Alien vs Predator (Prodos Games), Wargames Factory "Survivors" kits and DF Eisenkern.

 warboss wrote:
Very nice work! The only thing I'd recommend is maybe bulking up the predator arm holding the sabre.

Yeah, that one and the Predator holding a pulse rifle and saber need epoxy work to finish the arms. The one with the sword in particular currently has massive gaps and x-acto carved surfaces, you just can't really tell in the picture. Bulking, musculature and straps all need to be built up.

If i ever get into this game, i am totally stealing that Alien trick because that looks awesome as hell. I play Warzone: Resurrection and from what ive been told they play very, very similarly.
But i has too many things i need to paint as it is lol.

Yeah, they're essentially the same rule set. The current version of AvP uses tile sections instead of inches for measurement, but there's pre-release versions of the rules floating around that are directly compatible with WZR for the most part.

Predator Elder

WIP Alien "hero":

All looking brilliant.......and creepy....but mostly brilliant.

I really am blown away by the Aliens. The Predators look great too.

EDC

Great stuff, you're really doing amazing justice to these minis - worth the wait right

Thanks for the info on the objective markers as well - ingenious use of various bits

Lovely work on some lovely miniatures.

Finished Predator Elder:






Finished Alien "hero":

Very nice.

What's next?

EDC

These are awesome.

Big fan of the Aliens/Predator universe, so seeing these done so well has made me very happy, nice work and keep it up!

Love the impaled alien heads on the elders base, looks fantastic.

 evildrcheese wrote:
Very nice.

What's next?

EDC

I've got time to do one more small unit or monster before I have to spend a week moving house, kinda tempted to do the queen actually but it may end up being another pred or some more warriors.

This so makes me want to paint my box of goodies.

Ready for painting:















Up next for assembly:

All looking great boss, love them.

These aliens look amazing and the hero rocks. Good convos on the predas too, check the predatstore for more options.

Predastore are WAY too small unfortunately.

I love those AVP minis, they look amazing! I've been working my way through the AVP game on my PS3, so I'll keep an eye on this thread for more cool minis!