Lots more Airbrushing

Spent a few hours on Saturday working on my Hoffman crew and a few other models around the place that needed some airbrushing or didn't need it but I felt like experimenting.









The Zard Beast from Invasion From Outer Space has been in need of some evening up for some time since I did the one leg by hand, spraying all four and his face and adding some shading to his belly was way quicker. I also experimented in cleaning up a mess of over spray on his back on one side with a cotton bud dipped in thinner. I kinda liked the effect so did it to his other side too. Could probably use a touch of clean up though with the whitish base colour.















More copper coloured very weathered robots for Hoffman, well one of them is from Reaper but I'm sure it could sub as something. I just basedcoated these guys by hand this time and did the black weathering with the airbrush rather than have copper paint spit everywhere. Now they just need some drybrush and highlights and some steal coloured bits.



I probably spent the most time airbrushing the cracks black then highlighting the tiles with bluish grey then white progressive sprays. It was fiddly but good practice. Then I dirtied it all up with some soft wash sprayed to brown areas and make it look dirty. These morgue bases are for my McMourning crew. I'm really not sure if I went too far with the black darkening, maybe I should have done that by hand along the grout lines.



I also tried to add some zenithal shading to Franky here but mostly think I screw him up, I'll paint over the skin again by hand to match my other Monster.

Surely you've been painting something?

Well yes I have but also been very distracted by Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider and etc. Also I got a bunch of X-Wing. Figured I should get around to taking some photos and putting up some sort of update.



my main efforts lately has been to finish up the Invaders from Outer Space miniatures. I've gotten through half of the heroes so far.







Not a bad strong man once you get him painted. He was well deserving some paint after his hammer kill the Zard Beast 3 times in one game :)







The trick shooter got her dress redone completely, I think the brighter colour is much better than the heap of brown from before.







I quite enjoyed painting the red coat on the ring master. He still needs a touch of highlights on the black areas and the base needs a lick of paint.



I've also been trying to get a few of my McMourning crew done for Malifaux. The Bete Noir started off as a bit of an experiment in trying out the Army Painter washes to see how they compared to the older GW ones. I ended up really liking the look of the aged white look on her dress that makes her look like the ghost of a jilted bride. After a clean paint job I splashed a bit of Tamiya clear red for the bloody hands and knives. I need to do up the base a bit with a grave stone and some groundwork.

ACK ACK AAAACCCK ACKK ACK!!! - Mars Attacks Martians from Invaders from Outer Space - The Martian Game

I'm a fan of old bad B movies and unlike most critics really liked the Mars Attacks movie so when I spotted the Flying Frog Invaders From Outer Space game I had to pester my friend to get it in on the next game order. To go along with it I also ordered a pair of Pegasus Scout UFOs. They serve no purpose in the game they just look cool. I might get some more.



Here's all the minis from the game and the beautifully simple to assemble UFOs flanked by a couple of recently purchased Mars Attacks martian action figures by Mezco Toys. Surprisingly it was possible to clean off the mold lines from the minis bendy plastic without making a total mess of them using some sandpaper and diamond files.



Ack Ack!



I primed with Army Painter undead green and started with a soft tone wash on the faces. Gave a nice Martian skin tone, then I picked out the eyes in off white and dotted with red. Unfortunately there's no brain ridges on the minis. Technically I could freehand in highlights to look like brains but there's like 19 of the little buggers. For the armour colour I went for a stroll through my FLGS with an action figure in hand comparing greens till I found a close match without driving myself nuts mixing the colour. Closest match was GW Sybarite Green. Really should have airbrushed them all but did it the old fashioned way. Backpacks were then painted in red and then the guns, collars and tops of backpacks were painted gunmetal. My tiny bit of squad identification is through the gun tops, 9 have red the other 9 blue. The leader's power sword had me digging through old paints at the folks place to see if my fleuro paints still can be used. It got painted Fleuro orange.



After the base coating I gave them a coat of Army Painter Dark Tone Wash.



After letting the wash dry I went back in to clean up the armour with Sybarite Green and a bit of edge highlighting with a touch of white mixed into the green.





The Zard Beast is still very in progress. After priming with zombie green I dusted him from above with white spray and started from that for my colour scheme. I'm shading him into Snakebite Leather in the face and arms and then into reds on the feet. Got the inspiration from a fellow painter showing me a beasty from Star Wars The Old Republic. Figured he could use a base too so I'll stick him to a 60mm rounded lip base.





Lastly here's the UFOs which if you remove the seat from inside you can easily fit a based miniature inside.



I've also started on the heroes of Earth from the game.... Carnies! those cabbage smelling, small handed freaks are the only hope to stop the Martian invasion !!!!

Here is the trick shooter who will probably get a different coloured dress and Jojo the dancing bear!