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Posted by [cancerblack]
 - Mar 30, 2021, 10:55:19 PM
What kind did you get? I'll be in the market soon.
Posted by razeak
 - Mar 30, 2021, 10:46:08 PM
I got a 3d printer so i can print minis i won't paint lol.
Posted by [cancerblack]
 - Mar 11, 2021, 08:08:49 PM
Thanks lads. More creatures coming soon, I hope.
Posted by Eighty-Five
 - Mar 10, 2021, 06:05:14 PM
Very nice work cancerblack! The dome looks pretty clean. The red on the elite warriors reminds me of the 'cystic' warriors from AvP Extinction. Love it.
Posted by Corporal Hicks
 - Mar 10, 2021, 01:58:46 PM
I think that dome came out quite nicely there!
Posted by [cancerblack]
 - Mar 09, 2021, 08:59:51 PM
Skirmish homebrew game swarm is growing:





"Evolved Warriors", which fill an elite role and are ultimately, Warriors that can take more upgrades than the default ones:







First crack at making a Drone:

Posted by Kradan
 - Feb 23, 2021, 07:35:11 AM
Sweet  :)
Posted by [cancerblack]
 - Feb 22, 2021, 10:47:27 PM
Working on a little skirmish set:




Posted by Eighty-Five
 - Feb 18, 2021, 07:45:43 PM
Heads-up for anyone who wanted an APC but never got their hands on one from Prodos:

Gale Force 9 (the Glorious Day in the Corps company) are now taking direct-only pre-orders for a resin APC kit. Since all their minis are pretty much in scale with Prodos this seems like a pretty good thing for marine collectors.

Check it out: https://www.flamesofwar.com/gf9online_store.aspx?CategoryID=13823
Posted by [cancerblack]
 - Feb 17, 2021, 05:46:44 AM
Cheers mate. The bronzey ones are for "army level" projects, while the brighter stuff is mostly mono-pose and for boardgaming.

Re: Praetorians, the multi-part and slightly larger version was on the market for much longer than the smaller, mono-pose ("unicast") version, which may be part of the reason for that. Unless I have your meaning backwards.




And yeah, I have a huge soft spot for that old Tyrant. Speedpainted another one with the new Contrast paints recently too. Perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, it amounts to washes and drybrush too:

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Posted by Eighty-Five
 - Feb 17, 2021, 01:46:36 AM
Them's some tasty paintjobs, man. I really love those slightly bronze-toned guys at the top, especially the (dread-free!) Predalien conversion. Reminds me of my childhood Kenner Scorpion Alien, sadly lost to the jaws of a dog called Rosie many moons ago. Really wish I could get my hands on one or two of those Giger-esque Praetorians, but all I can ever find on aftermarket are the more AvP styled Royal Guards(?)

I'm gonna do some test schemes on a few GF9 guys cause they're cheap, plastic and easily stripped with degreaser. You've definitely given me some inspiration.

(Love that 3rd edition Hive Tyrant btw, I know the sculpt is kinda goofy but imo it has a way cooler silhouette than the newer kit)
Posted by [cancerblack]
 - Feb 17, 2021, 01:02:23 AM
Generally speaking you can avoid the chalkiness by using a slightly better quality brush than you might normally want to "waste" on drybrushing, doing more than one layer of it with washes between stages/doing progressively lighter/brighter tones, and finishing it with a glaze to take the edge off.

Picture dump of AvP stuff that's all mostly just drybrush, wash and glazes:



















And a sample of Games Workshop stuff that was painted in a more "traditional" miniatures style, since I'm going through the ol' imgur:

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Posted by Eighty-Five
 - Feb 17, 2021, 12:27:35 AM
I can tell, but your work on the xenos' heads and the overall results made me think twice haha. I just kept seeing a lot of 'tutorials' for these that really were as simple as 'black undercoat, drybrush heavily with x colour, wash with black, done'.

This certainly feels a lot less low-effort and gives a much nicer finished look. I always kinda feel like drybrushing is cheating nowadays and I worry about it making my models look really chalky. But some of the details on my own GF9/Prodos aliens is ludicrously fine and I don't think my hand is steady enough to highlight it in my usual way so I'm reconsidering haha.
Posted by [cancerblack]
 - Feb 16, 2021, 09:45:02 PM
Thanks Eighty-Five. Honestly though, most of my stuff is wash and drybrush, I just do multiple layers and finish with a few manual details.
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