18mm Gzg Crusty Aliens.

[zrunelord]

Who doesn't like District 9?
These are my crusty aliens (Prawns) from Gzg .
Again another great set of minis from Jon.

The mechs are especially nice.

Thanks for your comments.
Z

https://castrarunis.blogspot.com/2022/01/18mm-gzg-crusty-aliens.html

[War Monkey]

Those look really Great! That color of Orange makes them look really good and suits them very well.

[CookAndrewB]

Space shrimp!

Love them, Z. Those mechs are particularly iconic.

[LeadLust]

Lovely work, especially the faces.  Nice colour scheme.   

[Cacique Caribe]

Those look amazing, Z!  I’m jealous.

Dan

[Idle Doodler]

Wow, these look great! Happen to have some on my painting sprue right now, and these put them to shame!

[zrunelord]

Thank you all for the kind words.
Doodler if you want to make them orange here's how.

White undercoat - orange base.
Wash with reddish brown to get armour lines.
Highlight with 2 shades of orange. Details in yellow. Wash agsin if required.

Heads black blue base. Highlight with medium blue. Wash with contrast aetherium blue ( i think that's its name). Highlight with 2 shades of light blue & finally white.

Weapons blue black , then greyish blue , wash blue black then
Highlight again.

You will get there by practice. Learn to paint by squads.
First a colour then another etc on all. I usually paint 5 to 10 at a time so that they all look the same.

If you have questions just ask.

Z

[Idle Doodler]

Thanks - very handy for the homemade paint guide!

[Onebigriver]

Great paint jobs! Those Prawns could tempt me into 15/18mm sci fi, but must resist....

[zrunelord]

Welcome & thank you,

Doodler, Another great GW shade I use is Carroborg crimson, very versatile on reds, yellows, oranges, browns, flesh , metal etc... & it dries a super matt finish.
I even used it on greens & blues .... though it tends to dirty the colour on these.

Onebigriver , I used to do only 28mm once.. then I started 15/18mm and resistance was futile.

Especially once you start to scratch build vehicles etc in that scale.....

Z