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Title: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Arcturus on May 30, 2010, 11:52:55 AM: Inspired by the Alien and Predator threads, i decided to take some quick shots of some of my Alien stuff i did about an year ago.

Here we go.

Marines:
(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/Marines2.jpg)

(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/Marines1.jpg)

(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/Marinecloseup.jpg)

The Hive:
(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/Hive2.jpg)

(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/Hive1.jpg)

Face Hugger:
(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/FaceHuggers.jpg)

(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/HuggerDetail2.jpg)

(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/Huggerdetail.jpg)

(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/HugAttack.jpg)

(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/HugAttack2.jpg)

(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/HuggerDetail3.jpg)

Surrounded:
(http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/Arcturus_Mengsk/Aliens/Surrounded.jpg)

The Face Huggers are made from GW Zombie hands and Skaven tails and some green stuff. To be honest the idea is stolen from boardgamegeek.

The eggs are taken from the Horrorclix Alien Queen base and repainted.

Marines are from Woodbine/Gripping Beast with some GW bits and pieces added.

Aliens and queen are just rebased Horrorclix figures.
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Westfalia Chris on May 30, 2010, 11:57:53 AM: Very appealing! Normally I don't like any base rim other than black, but you pulled off that metal look very nicely! May I ask who makes those floorplans?
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Arcturus on May 30, 2010, 12:01:17 PM: The blood splattered plans are from Doom the Boardgame the clean ones are from the Star wars RPG or CMG from Wizards of the Coast. I guess the pack is called "Galaxy Tiles". These have a printed back as well. The ones from Doom are just single sided.
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Commander Vyper on May 30, 2010, 12:07:10 PM: Gripping beast marines are very nice painted. Again a great use of zombie hands/skaven tails face huggers.

:D
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Comsquare on May 30, 2010, 12:15:45 PM: Yeah,

realy nice stuff :-*

Working on my own facehugger done the same way.
They look great
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Furt on May 30, 2010, 12:19:09 PM: Awesome stuff. :-*

You could have a really nice game with those.

The facehugger zombie/skaven conversion blows me away - would never have known unless told!
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Post by: Calimero on May 30, 2010, 01:55:58 PM: Nice stuff 8)
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Momotaro on May 30, 2010, 04:07:15 PM: Good stuff, and your paintjob on the Woodbine Marines look better than the photos on the Gripping Beast website. And the facehuggers are a GREAT idea.

I especially love the poledancing alien! lol
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Arcturus on May 30, 2010, 04:30:41 PM: Thanks for all the nice comments. While taking the photos and receiving so much encouragement i start thinking about painting the rest of the marines and i have one of the prince august power loaders lying around as well.

Maybe i postpone my fallout project for a while...

"Pole dancing alien" - now that's funny. Guess it would work in the same bar as the chestburster from Spaceballs. :)
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: abhorsen950 on May 30, 2010, 08:11:08 PM: These are superb..
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: anevilgiraffe on May 30, 2010, 10:02:43 PM: huggers are amazing...
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: AKULA on May 30, 2010, 10:07:27 PM: 8)

nice huggers
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Hawkeye on May 30, 2010, 10:21:51 PM: I agree with pretty much everybody here - those facehuggers are brialliant! It may not have been your idea, but the execution - and the painting - is suberp!
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Bako on May 31, 2010, 12:20:51 AM: Certainly excellent! I think I've just found a use for all those unused skaven and fantasy zombie bits I have laying around.
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: rob_alderman on May 31, 2010, 11:42:47 AM: Really great stuff, I have to say, I noticed the facehugger conversion before you said, but it looks the part and is truly inspired! :)
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Photographer on May 31, 2010, 02:40:36 PM: I lover it! :-*
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: cheetor on May 31, 2010, 06:55:38 PM: Quote from: Arcturus on May 30, 2010, 11:52:55 AM
Inspired by the Alien and Predator threads, i decided to take some quick shots of some of my Alien stuff i did about an year ago.

Im glad that you did. Those Gripping Beast marines look great, the camo is nice The addition of some of the GW bits is nice too. I may rob that :)

Quote from: Arcturus on May 30, 2010, 11:52:55 AM
The Face Huggers are made from GW Zombie hands and Skaven tails and some green stuff. To be honest the idea is stolen from boardgamegeek.

Thats where I stole the idea for my face-huggers too lol. They look great in concert with the eggs from the Alien Queen base.

Great work.
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Col.Stone on May 31, 2010, 07:15:10 PM: sweet, very inspring, mekes me want to dig out my box of aliens again :)
Title: Re: Arcturus Alien Stuff
Post by: Hitman on June 01, 2010, 04:03:56 AM: Great looking figures, paint jobs, terrain and ideas. I have a bunch of Aliens that I want to re-base for my games as well. Very inspiring....Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
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