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I'm liking these, you have captured a suitable
sickly-pale skin tone that I will be going for. They also seem to have the pale geyed-out eyes to.

Yeah, they look good. For mine, I've gone for something along very similar lines on the 2nd and 3rd Gens (not painted the 1A yet) and it looks fine on them, so it should translate nicely. I'd also recommend going for fairly muted colours for the 3A clothes, like muddy browns and greys, as it helps the rotted/mutated flesh really stand out.

Looks good JaydeeOT - suitably yucky!

I suppose you could try a bit more dark red or black wash in the crevices to make the details pop a bit more, but that's probably the only thing I could think of.

Agree with Paradigm, think more muted colours for clothing work well if you are using the official colour-scheme. They need something to offset the brightness of their skin tones, otherwise they'll end up looking like they've come off of a float on the Rio carnival!

Quick question for all you guys already painting. Is it necessary to dunk the restic pieces in detergent before painting to get release agent off?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Quick question for all you guys already painting. Is it necessary to dunk the restic pieces in detergent before painting to get release agent off?

I've not found it necessary, the paint goes on fine just on the bare Restic.

I prime mine and haven't washed a single piece yet. You shouldn't need to wash them first.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Quick question for all you guys already painting. Is it necessary to dunk the restic pieces in detergent before painting to get release agent off?

Nope, haven't washed a single figure yet, I do use and airbrush for the base coat with an alcohol based thinner so that usually cuts through any of the remaining release agent but I havent had any problems yet, you should be fine


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 Mu wrote:

I'm liking these, you have captured a suitable
sickly-pale skin tone that I will be going for. They also seem to have the pale geyed-out eyes to.

Yeah i was trying to go for a pale colour with a more angry red around the spines but the mixture of washes kind of added up and blurred into one, hopefully my next plague hound will be a bit better but this one didn't turn out too badly.

 Paradigm wrote:
Yeah, they look good. For mine, I've gone for something along very similar lines on the 2nd and 3rd Gens (not painted the 1A yet) and it looks fine on them, so it should translate nicely. I'd also recommend going for fairly muted colours for the 3A clothes, like muddy browns and greys, as it helps the rotted/mutated flesh really stand out.

I was thinking that yeah, possibly browns, blacks and khaki greens etc... I'm just thinking what kind of people would be the first to fall victim to the plague and try and capture that in the clothing.

 Pacific wrote:
Looks good JaydeeOT - suitably yucky!

I suppose you could try a bit more dark red or black wash in the crevices to make the details pop a bit more, but that's probably the only thing I could think of.

Agree with Paradigm, think more muted colours for clothing work well if you are using the official colour-scheme. They need something to offset the brightness of their skin tones, otherwise they'll end up looking like they've come off of a float on the Rio carnival!

suggestion noted and i'll give that a shot on the next model and see how it turns out, next one on the list is the other plague hound so I can test the red and black washes and see if I can make it look a bit better than the first, Ive almost finished it so i'll post pics when I get a chance.

Cheers guys for the comments and suggestions, time to see if i can make them work

RIBBIT RIBBIT B****!

The Iron Frogs are 1 Teraton away from completion!

More pics in my irregularly updated blog

ok, second hound done, may I present to you Flesh (left) and Blood (right), now the question is which one of the paint schemes says "I've been messed up by some alien mutagen and quite frankly i don't care for it much, in fact I would go as far as to saying I'm having a bad day, coincidently that's what your about to have too" ?

Both schemes look nice, but I think I prefer the one on the left. There's more contrast on that one, which will make more of the detail on the larger models. That said, the blood on the one on the right looks good.

Can always do both for variation in skin tone or what have you.

I liked it better when they were on a Purina box.

The right makes the flesh look more freshly flayed. A "wetter" look. The left looks good as well. It's really up to you how you want your dogs to look.

I just finished painting him. I figured I ought to share my ninja squid with you guys.

Looks great. Having trouble telling from the photo are the tentacles grey or pink?

It is kind of hard to tell, but they are pink.

It looked pink, just kind of pale so hard to tell.

So here is some more plague out rampaging. Despite not being a fan originally, I quite like these minis.

Nice. I like the mutated convict look! Orange jumpsuits for the win! Painting is on hold while I'm out of town. Maybe I'll build my plague stuff.

That's a nice unique take on plague, I like it! Great theme. Can deffinitely see corps testing it on them too.

My first painted enforcer!

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Nice. I like the mutated convict look! Orange jumpsuits for the win!

Seconded and idea stolen!

barnacle111 wrote:
So here is some more plague out rampaging. Despite not being a fan originally, I quite like these minis.

Very nice! Looks like they have escaped from a mutant prison

barnacle111 wrote:
So here is some more plague out rampaging. Despite not being a fan originally, I quite like these minis.

Were it not for the fact that about half of my Plague are painted now, I would totally be stealing this idea.

Whelp, Mantic came through and got some christmas crazy boxen to someone in time for me to get them for christmas today... so it looks like I've got 4 more deadzone minis to paint while I wait for my shipment to come in. And the much coveted Soraks too, with a bonus of more Yndij. Not sure what to do with Anne-Marie-Helder twins, but I'll think of something. I also got two dreadball mechs (!!) and even though the Deadzone striders are supposed to be bigger now, I think I'll still convert them both to have guns and serve in the deadzones. Wee!

@Beefnuggets, that enforcer is awesome by the way The white looks well done and the highlights give it a lot of pop. The scheme presents extremely well at a distance and the custom base is a nice touch. Please continue and show us some more like that


Sgt Conversion, in progress.

 GrimDork wrote:
Whelp, Mantic came through and got some christmas crazy boxen to someone in time for me to get them for christmas today... so it looks like I've got 4 more deadzone minis to paint while I wait for my shipment to come in. And the much coveted Soraks too, with a bonus of more Yndij. Not sure what to do with Anne-Marie-Helder twins, but I'll think of something. I also got two dreadball mechs (!!) and even though the Deadzone striders are supposed to be bigger now, I think I'll still convert them both to have guns and serve in the deadzones. Wee!

@Beefnuggets, that enforcer is awesome by the way The white looks well done and the highlights give it a lot of pop. The scheme presents extremely well at a distance and the custom base is a nice touch. Please continue and show us some more like that

Spoiler:

Here's what my energy fist looks like. Pardon the facepalm pose, its magnetized and he was upset to have guard duty again so soon after his promotion. I'll be trying to get that painted as I work on the next couple of enforcers.

Sgt Conversion, in progress.

That is a nice looking sandwich, dude!

It was tasty too! They've started selling the arby's and horsey sauce at the drive thru and it's amazing to have on hand

I've got a Yndij assembled and I'm thinking of painting him kind of like Red XIII minus the fire, what do you guys think?


Basically red-orange with burgundy maine/tufts of hair.

 GrimDork wrote:
Can always do both for variation in skin tone or what have you.

Yeah i could do both but in an effort to save me time I usually like replicate paint jobs with the airbrush for the base coat then just add a few little variations but I guess i can throw a bit more ink at one or two of them to keep it interesting.

 Stunami wrote:
I liked it better when they were on a Purina box.

The right makes the flesh look more freshly flayed. A "wetter" look. The left looks good as well. It's really up to you how you want your dogs to look.

Ha ha, yeah no wonder they're annoyed and after human flesh, some idiots been feeding them CAT FOOD!!!

well after a little pondering I think I'm going to go for the flesh paint job, the details seem to stand out more and the red effect around the spikes and wounds seem to appear more angrier and painful which I think suits them well, I've just got to remember how I did it now

 GrimDork wrote:
It was tasty too! They've started selling the arby's and horsey sauce at the drive thru and it's amazing to have on hand

I've got a Yndij assembled and I'm thinking of painting him kind of like Red XIII minus the fire, what do you guys think?


Basically red-orange with burgundy maine/tufts of hair.

Awww man, GrimDork you are definitely on my wavelength this is exactly what i was thinking for my Yndij although I really want to try out a turquoise fading into white paint effect on one of the alien types for the Reb faction but I'm not sure which ones yet.

That plan looks good for the Yndij, any idea on what you'll do for the armour?

As for the blue/white fade, I think that my look good on the Kraw, maybe on the wings?

Here are a few of my plague. Not sure what I'm going to do with the bases yet, but they are done besides that.

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