Martian Lady Hussars

[Froggy the Great]

I painted them based on the Victorian side-story from the Narbonic webcomic (http://www.narbonic.com) wherein the main characters build a bathyscape to the moon, get hijacked by Venusian fish-men, and end up in a Martian camp full of amorphous shapeshifting duplicates of the main character's mother.

I never know what to do with historical units - I can never figure out the colors.  Thus, I added breathing units (to allow them to fight in places other than Mars) and painted them as made sense at the time.

If Hinterland ever produces sidesaddle-riding cavalry figures, those are getting a pointed saddle-blanket and mounted on basilisks.

[Chairface]

Gorgous work Froggy. The colours are fantastic and I love the breathing tubes.

[Blackwolf]

Nice Froggy,good spin on the minis.

[Thunderchicken]

Excellent idea Froggy and the beathing units work well, nice touch. 

[Jonas]

Looks great and somehow like the colour scheme I had planned for mine, so I might look a bit to this picture for inspiration when I get my brush ready on them some time.

[Froggy the Great]

The colors as I remember them (All Reaper MSP):
Underskirts are Porcelain Rose then white.
Coats/skirts are Black, highlighted with the Muddy Olive triad then Moth Green, then washed with Blue Liner.
Belts and such are White
Gold etc is Adamantium Black highlighted with the Gold triad.
Facings are black, then blood red, then an orange of some sort.
Hats are Brown Liner then white.
Deaths heads are black then silver.
Skin is the Tanned Skin triad
Lining is done with Blue Liner.

...I think that's all.

[ushistoryprof]

Oooo....I like them, so very VSF and good looking.
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[Mancha]

Wow, great work.  I personally love painting green.  Highlights and shadows are so dramatic, and you've completely achieved the color's potential here.  I also admire your blond hair and the anime eyes.  Thanks for posting.  As you offered, I'm going to post these to the Hinterland gallery.  Thank you.

[Ray Rivers]

Super mini's Froggy.

The breathing apparatus mod screams VSF.

[Chairface]

The colors as I remember them (All Reaper MSP):
Underskirts are Porcelain Rose then white.
Coats/skirts are Black, highlighted with the Muddy Olive triad then Moth Green, then washed with Blue Liner.
Belts and such are White
Gold etc is Adamantium Black highlighted with the Gold triad.
Facings are black, then blood red, then an orange of some sort.
Hats are Brown Liner then white.
Deaths heads are black then silver.
Skin is the Tanned Skin triad
Lining is done with Blue Liner.

...I think that's all.

Hmmm. Muddy olive triad eh? Very cool. I'll have to add it to my next order. I've been looking for some good greens. I LOVE reaper paints. 

[mpennock]

Beautifully done, Froggy.

Alas, mine are still raw lead. They stare at me accusingly every time I sit at my painting desk to work on something else....

[Argonor]

I-SO-want-to-paint-some-of-those....   

[dodge]

Ooooh these figures are very popular, second thread in a row.

very cool

dodge

[Argonor]

Ooooh these figures are very popular, second thread in a row.

Yep. And not surprisingly - they are some of the most versatile 'what-if' minis currently out there. VSF/VWA, Pulp, Semi-historical, and I'm going to use some for WWWII - have a very distinct colour scheme and purpose in mind. And if I had not promised myself to not buy anything before having finished at least one unit of old GW plastic minis for Kings of War before buying anything.... 

But, as of today, I'll be doing a little hobby-stuff every evening. Must get something done

[Mancha]

Yep. And not surprisingly - they are some of the most versatile 'what-if' minis currently out there. VSF/VWA, Pulp, Semi-historical, and I'm going to use some for WWWII...

I think of them as weird World War ONE, myself.  I'm sort of hoping other companies will extend the genre.