Something of a selection box today, starting with some more Grey aliens (even though some of them aren’t grey) to go alongside the starting war and I painted a few weeks ago.
These are once again from the Watchers faction for the Wild West Exodus game. Not sure I’ll get around to playing them in that game, but my plan to use them as invaders against some post apocalyptic humans is intact, probably using the Xenos Rampant rules. No idea why there is a human in the box, but in the box she was and so she got painted.
The same paint scheme as my last ones.
Next up are some tree elementals/dryads for Kings of War for the, perhaps unsurprisingly, Forces of Nature army. They’ll go alongside the water and fire elementals I painted last week as an army mainly made up of big fellas who go “Smash” instead of pesky small infantry is really rather appealing.
There’s also a Tree Herder with them, who is the big Ent looking fella at the back. He will most definitely go Smash.
Nice and simple painting with dry brushing doing most of the heavy lifting and I thought I’d add some basing flock and underbrush to their tops to give them some foliage.
Last up are a couple of big monsters and a little fella. In order to finish my Conquest Spires army, I needed to finish a standard bearer and two monsters, delightfully known as “Abominations”
They’re too big for my Photo Booth so I had to improvise! The little fella is 40mm, which shows how huge these lads are…..
Contrast paint doing some heavy lifting as there’s plenty of surface detail and it was great for the flesh.
As you can see, they’re a little bit disturbing… horrible to build though as the leg joints were all ball and socket, which sounds great in theory, but trying to hold four ball and socket joints together simultaneously was an absolute nightmare.
So, for scores then:
Aliens are 2 x 40mm and 5 x 28mm for 39 points.
Wood dryads are 6 x 40mm and 1 x 28mm vehicle for 62 points.
Conquest miniatures are 1 x 40mm infantry and 2 x 40mm vehicles for 57 points
Which I make 158 points in total.
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Well now Jamie, 158 points WITHOUT resorting to any sort of Naval Nonsense (TM) - that's more like it!
This is a tremendous assortment you have gathered here. Remember, even if all of the aliens are not grey in look, they are probably grey in motive, so "grey alien" is the perfect term to apply to all of them. The Ents look smashing - as well as able to smash. And as for the "Abomninations" well...they sure seem to do what it says on the tin! And I expect all those ball socket joints were quite the nightmare to assemble...
158 points well-earned! We look forward to your further progress on multiple fronts!
GregB
Excellent xenos and the big brutes are really great.
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