From ClintB (Paint Monkey) - GW Genestealers / Aliens (65 Points)

Today I have 12  Games workshop "Genestealers" and a "Broodlord" (He's the bigger one but you probably already guessed that.) Many of us, if not most of us, have painted some of these in the past and contemplated the idea of using them in an "Aliens" Game set on "LV426" at the colony of "Hadley's Hope". I am no different. While these are not exact copies of the Giger "Alien" they are easy enough to find and will serve the purpose well enough for a game. I am sure every player at the club will have seen the film so no surprises there!

As such I have gone for the typical black/green colouration but with tongues and claws in  lighter accent colours. The green was achieved by using my darkest commercial green as a base coat and also a final highlight and two layers of black writing ink of the type I used when I was a boy with desks had inkwells. Yeah I am that old. Say what you want about the ark, but it did float!

The slotta bases were all covered in plasti-card with the same decking texture and then painted in a couple of metallics and a mix of Flesh wash and orange ink, was run into the pattern to look like rust. A final coat of silver was applied haphazardly to look like scuff marks. But you can't see all that clearly on the Photographs which I quite like as you can see it in direct sunlight. I don't recall Hadley's Hope being all that rusty but call it artistic licence.

The Broadlord will take the role of the alien queen as it stands significantly taller than your average Joe Alien (Genestealer). And along with the rest was a chuckle to paint as I know my club will get a lot of fun from misquoting the film as they play. Not least of which when they say "Game over man, Game over!". We all know someone is going to!

I went for a clear gloss varnish as my memory of the film back in 1986 was that they did have a slimy/chitin look to them all. So I was never going to use Matt varnish. I do already have my colonial marines bought (but not yet assembled) and for those I will be using "Defiance Games" UAMC Infantry. So you may expect them close to the end of the challenge.

You can see a couple of rust spots here on a close up of a genestealer. As well as the hint of green mixed in with the Black. This is by new means a novel idea for a game but one I have yet to do so It was about time I did so.

And this last picture is just to remind you all what I was aiming for. I have yet to source any "face-huggers" so any suggestions for them would be well received but "Crooked Dice " do something similar and I already have some of their astronauts so that might be the best route. And I shall be building the terrain in the warmer weather.

That's it for this week. 12 Games Workshop Plastic Genestealers, I think I need to source more just to let players have fun firing at them, and 1 Broodlord figure to act as the queen A bigger target for my players to try to hit.

All the best Folks.

From Curt:Ah, wonderful work Clint. I love the hi-gloss black/green on these fellows, to which the claws provide the perfect counterpoint (excuse the pun). I also really admire how you did the decking - a brilliant effect I think. I look forward to seeing the upcoming Marines.   

Okay, back to the painting desk Methuselah.   :)