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Wow, that lightbox makes a load of difference! I think the skin looks fine (though I'm not familiar with what you're basing it on), if you wanted to go paler you could just add some more highlights with a little 'cold' grey/off-white in your mix at the most stretched areas of skin, that would lighten the whole tone while not destroying the good work that's already there.

Hi thanks both

Still on the fence about the skin might have a go at lightening it up first.

More experiments with my lighting set up

Complete fail initially


but managed to get it better


Took some better pics of Anvil industry's Avatar



Finished Morat

Eyes were a pain on this guy,but that might be down to me doing the eyes last instead of first.

I wanted a muted colour scheme for the mini so the face and white hair poped.

I need to sort out his base but I haven't decided on what the combined bases will be.

Thanks for looking

Good stuff, lighting is definitely sorted now!

Those female Dire Avengers look very nice, might have to borrow that idea.

Thanks both.

@GiraffeX - be warned its a pain trying to find bits sellers selling the female guardian torso for a decent price, I struggled so much I ended up buying a eldar guardians squad just to be able to do it......

Pretty exciting hobby week with my partial AVP pledge showing up

The predator and Alien minis are stunning, and when you get them they do make the wait slightly more tolerable in hindsight

the marines are really good sculpts and casts but their too big ( about 34/35mm tall on average)to go with the rest of my collection so that takes the shine off them. I'll get a size comparison pic done soon.

Missing the arm from one of the preds and the head on the power loader is miscast, otherwise the rest of the minis ( that are approved) seem all there.


PIP
The current mid painting pile

Hasslefree Mawe's, colony 87 merchant, GW scout sniper, infinity pan o drop trooper, and a load of anvil industries republic comandoes in the background

The Mawe's skin is finished just need to get the rest painted and based now

No idea how I'm going to do the leaping Mawe's base

Current pile to be undercoated before the rugby today ( 2 of the infant aliens already made it into be painted)




Deadzone Marauder goblin sniper
Same theme as my 40k tester ork with black red and grey camo. I'm planning on using 40k Orks for my Deadzone Marauders.


Think I'll make the camo a bit chunkier in the future


Mars attacks scatter scenery

These have come out better than I'd expected,

Thanks for looking, C&C welcome, and should be more posted tomorrow

Great works all round.

MA scatter is nice and clean and looking great.

Going to do the same with 40k orks for deadzone myself. This guy looks a bit too busy for me, but that is a totally personal thing, good job, just a bit busy.

I WANT AVP

And I am thinking of getting those Maws and using them as squigs for goblins to ride on!

What are those red casualty figures from? I'd like to get my hands on some of those. Also, I really like the Mars attacks scatter terrain. The trash cans are my favorites.

Thanks both

@Cam - He is too busy, there was something nagging at me about it and I think that hits it on the head, thanks
I want to go down the camo look for the Orks if I do bigger camo patterns that should make it less busy.

@waaazag - Their casualty minis from Mars attacks, 2 marines and one Martian.


Colony 87 Noblewoman

The penultimate mini finished from colony 87



Very Happy with my skin work on this one.

It took me ages to work out what colours I wanted for her clothing, but I think the blue n turquoise works.
Went with a skin coloured body suit for her clone pet, to play on the creepy factor a bit more

Only the merchant to go now

Anvil Industries Wardrones

Not my best pics on this one

I was aiming for them to look similar to the chappie robots..



Their ok, the do look better in real life, the edge high lighting hasn't come off that well.

I might come back to them as not 100% happy

Xenomorph

So I couldn't wait to paint my AVP Aliens (been waiting over 2 years after all).

Here's my test paintjob for the Xenomorph



Really simple letting the beautiful mini do the work, just drybrushed, washed and the done painted in gloss varnish.

I went for metal claws to match the teeth, but I'm not sure this is movie accurate (my Google fu showed both)

What do you reckon metal or black claws?

Thanks for looking

Noblewoman and Drones are good... but that Xenomorph is fething perfect! Simple paintwork or not, it looks exactly like it should. Lovely tones, great use of the gloss varnishing, great base too!

I reckon the claws might look better in the same gloss black as the head... At the moment, they look ever so slightly 'tacked on' as most of the mini is so monochrome. Either works, though.

 Paradigm wrote:
Noblewoman and Drones are good... but that Xenomorph is fething perfect! Simple paintwork or not, it looks exactly like it should. Lovely tones, great use of the gloss varnishing, great base too!

I reckon the claws might look better in the same gloss black as the head... At the moment, they look ever so slightly 'tacked on' as most of the mini is so monochrome. Either works, though.

Thanks Para

I see what your saying about the claws, I'm going to rewatch the alien films this week and give the other one I've got primed glossy black claws

Great looking Xenomorth.

EDC

Thanks EDC


Not a lot of 40k done recently that should change with my dire avengers being primed on the weekend and a hooded head being found for another scout.

Going to have a crack at some more "true scale" marines this weekend using the Horus heresy plastics. (Ideally a ultramarine and a black legion chaos conversion)

Ultramarine scout sniper

Finished another one

2 more and Telion to go

Went nostalgic with the blue eye paint and Mohawk


Aegis defence line auto cannon
I do love this bit of scenery, the rest of the line will make it into my pile soon.




Febs mini purchases

Only 2 purchases this month and their possibly 2 of my favourite 40k minis ever

Love the death corps commisar I just think he looks completely bad ass.
Same for this orlock ganger

Thanks for looking and any C&C is most welcome, should be back on weekend with more stuff.

JoeRugby’s assorted Sci-fi thread – 5/03/16 – Colony 87 wave 1 finished


Not a lot finished this week, but everything in my active PIP pile now has some more paint on it than just primer.

PIP


Dire avengers got a blue base coat, republic commandos now have the black armour plates ready for a black wash.

No progress on the rest tho.


Xenomorph 2
Decided to go with gun metal claws instead of the silver in the last one.

I did try black gloss claws like the head but it didn't work for me.

Now to clean the rest of my pledge ( was too excited to clean the 2 I've done so far and some of the paint did flake on thie second one)


Suffer not the "Alien"......

Colony 87 merchant

Got the colony 87 merchant painted.


Which means

Colony 87 Wave 1 is Finished

Group shot!

If you like these minis btw please check out the Kickstarter for wave 2 here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/62661939/return-to-colony-87-28mm-sci-fi-civilians
( you can pic these minis up in the Kickstarter too)

Thanks for looking

Once again the Xenomorph steals the show, fantastic stuff and the new claw style definitely works better!

The Colony 87 stuff looks awesome too!

Thanks a lot Para

Crashed Aquila hulll

Another great bit of 40k scenery


The rest is coming along but I need to sort something with the cockpit as I don't like that there's nothing inside.

Thanks for looking I should have the wings up tomorrow

Not got a lot finished this week it's mostly been sorting out my pipe of shame.

And yesterday's hobby time was spent cleaning cleaning resin

PIP

Dire avengers and republic commandos now base coloured and washed.
Teach and claws done on the mawes.

I'll get some bases done on the mawes this week to try and get them finished.

And some cheeky brokkrs made it into the panting pile too, my intention is to still paint them like Royal Mail postmen.

WIP

Enforcers, TGG Tina, and brokkr chief To get based then they can move into the spray me box below.

Crusher needs some green stuff work done on the join points

The large pile of aliens and the colonial marine need some pose adjusting with hot water.

spray me pile

All this stuff is ready to get primed

Thank's for looking, I'm putting the finishing touches to some bits so should be more up tomorrow.

Enforcers



Put together some of the plastic enforcers for a crack at v2 of Deadzone in a few days.
Soon to be joined by the enforcers from my WIP pile.

Once their pained I'll sell off the old restic enforcers. (Apart from the sniper cause the sniper is the 2nd most bad ass model in the Deadzone range.)

I gloss varnished the white armour parts to look like an Iphone case for a clean sci-fi look.


Crashed Aquilla lander



More progress on the crashed lander, just the cockpit to go but that's going to take a fair bit of work to sort out the gaps.

Happy with how it's come out so far

Thanks for looking

Nice work! Great Enforcers and the terrain is awesome!

Nice work on the Aquila. Those Aliens look interesting to paint. Good stuff.

Thanks both

Great work on the Enforcers, looking at yours I definately need to revisit mine.

The crash looks awesome, nice weathering and detail. good job.

The enforcers in restic would have been better if they'd been in fewer pieces. The Plastics paint up really nicely though, and you've done a really good job on yours

Thanks both

Anvil Industries Republic Commandos

When used in my "Nateverse" (40k head cannon where I try to fit other sci fi settings in e.g mantics warpath universe is a subsector south of the segmentum tempestus founded by rouge traders after the heresy)

AKA

Albion S.A.S
"Who dares Wins"
"The S.A.S regiment has a heritage going back to the first colonisation of the Albion system and even Terra itself.
For decades before the dark they were the elite of Albion's military, and that's all that is still recorded of them just the initials a motto and barley two sentences.

No one knows what happened to them, many think they were discarded by the techno knights of the noble families during the dark.
When Guilliman brought the great crusade to the Albion and united the Colonies they were just a footnote in a militarum history textbook.
It wasn't until 1000 years later that they would be reformed.

Major David Stirling during Waaagh Mary, recognised the need for an elite Commando unit to perform the tasks high command would wait 11 years for the Astartes to arrive for, after a lot of arguing eventually Stirling got his own way.
Named because he remembered the motto from his days in the Scolar, the S.A.S performed lightning raids and assassinations crippling the Ork invasion leading to Albion's forces eradicating the greenskins before the Astartes arrived.

The legend restored it has only grown since."




Size Comparison
Now to get them to fit a bit better with my collection I added a mm to the bottom of their bases


They now fit in well enough for me, definitely within my OCD tolerances.

Thanks for looking and reading my bit of badly written fluff

They look cracking, good stuff!

Very much approve and like the idea, hey this is a fictional infinite universe, so what you say goes. I personally like the idea so much going to steal it.

Thanks both

Steal away Cam

Reposed Xenomorphs

Not a fan of the regulars drone Xenomorph poses, too upright and stiff for me.

A bit of hot water later and this is what I got






Thanks for looking sorry for the blurry pics

31/03/16 -

PIP

Active "Paint me" pile is looking a little intimidating at the moment, but there are a few things very close to being completed

March Purchases

Well within budget this month, £26.47 spent.

Picked up a new workbench and jigsaw so I can start doing scenery again but that's a household purchase not a hobby one ;P

Brute Force
Very much a mantic almost mini, fell in love with the concept art in the Kickstarter but the mini doesn't live up to it.



I'll make some rules to use her In Deadzone.

Thanks for looking