Cheetors Alien Flora & Fauna: Cirripods 25/10/16

[cp models]

Fantastic painting 

Mark

[commissarmoody]

Cant believe I missed this thread, lots of inspiration. Keep up with the good ideas.

[cheetor]

Thanks for the encouragement folks

Have you considered these lovely little critturs, Vardu Sprouts from Hydra Miniatures:

I have considered the Vardu, but have yet to get around to picking some up.   Its probably just a matter of time though...

Meanwhile, I have finished the rather time consuming task of prepping the fifty or so bases of foliage to bulk out my jungle with.  I am sick of the sight of plastic aquarium plants at this stage, so I find it hard to be objective, but I think that the space jungle part of this project has been a success.  A gaudy, somewhat H.R. Puffinstuff flashback inducing success, but a success nonetheless.











More photos in the blog post.

Comments and criticisms welcomed even more than usual.  I literally cannot see the wood for the trees after a couple of weeks working on this stuff.

[Za Zjurman]

Wow  what a cool project. Do you have the links where you bought the palm trees and the others plants  .

Cheers,
Za

[aliensurfer]

fab looking table 

[whiskey priest]

I'm absolutely loving this stuff. So much so that on a family trip out to the garden centre/ coffee shop, I went straight to the aquatic section and checked out the plants! (Although they seem to be cheaper online!) brilliant stuff. Keep it coming.

[DowVooVoo]

Very cool table!

[Hitman]

Your table is second to none. Absolutely inspirational!! Too bad you didn't live in my corner of the world. I would love to have a game with you on that table using that terrain and those figures. Thanks for sharing!!
Regards,
Hitman
 

[Mason]

Bloody gorgeous!
 

Proper retro-looking for that perfect RT look.
 

It makes me want to do mine.
I have enough palm trees and aquarium plants but I do need more 'feature' plants and you have provided a wonderful list of what's out there.

Cheers!
 

[Sinewgrab]

That table is awesome. Just awesome.

RT FTW!   

[Vermis]

Not bad! 

[cheetor]

Thanks for the kind words guys.  It all helps to when motoring through the projects

Wow  what a cool project. Do you have the links where you bought the palm trees and the others plants  .

Sure, all from Ebay.

The palm trees came from the Ebay seller "everestmodel".  I bought one pack of "TDT13 20pcs Layout Model Train Palm Trees Scale HO 13CM", one pack of "TDT18 20pcs Layout Model Train Palm Trees Scale O 18cm" and one pack of "TDZ3 40pcs Layout Model Train Palm Trees Scale HO N 3CM" from him.

Most of the red plants came from Ebay seller "144mph", 2 x "Plastic Aquarium Multicolor Plants Fish Tank Grass Landscape 10pc MPH".

The most interesting range of coloured plants came from Ebay seller "ouyou2010", 5 x "Lot 10pcs Plastic Aquarium Multicolor Plants Fish Tank Grass Ornament Landscape".

A few bits and pieces that had knocking around were added too, but the amount listed above gave me the coverage shown.

(Although they seem to be cheaper online!)

Definitely far cheaper online than in the local pet shops and the like.  I found that the local places didnt really stock many aquarium plants in exotic colours either, so it had to be online purchasing anyway for me.

brilliant stuff. Keep it coming.

Thanks.  This project isnt finished by a long way, but the plant and jungle aspect is for now.  I do have a large menagerie of unpainted wildlife ready to be added to the jungle yet though, Miral Land Sharks, Face-Eaters, Growlers, weird things that dont really have proper names yet... loads.

Too bad you didn't live in my corner of the world. I would love to have a game with you on that table using that terrain and those figures.

Never say never Hitman, it could happen.

Proper retro-looking for that perfect RT look.
 

Definitely retro, although more retro than eighties RT stuff yused to look in some respects I reckon. I think that it looks more Forbidden Planet or Star Trek or Lost in Space, kinda Technicolour

It makes me want to do mine.
I have enough palm trees and aquarium plants but I do need more 'feature' plants and you have provided a wonderful list of what's out there.

The palm trees and aquarium plants were the toughest bit to work on actually, the most dull.  The "hero" plants were more interesting although if I am honest, it really was quite a big job.  I am glad to be finished it for a while.

[former user]

The palm trees and aquarium plants were the toughest bit to work on actually, the most dull.  

why?
I am asking because I have a lot of plastic plants too

[majorsmith]

Bloody fantastic!

[cheetor]

why?
I am asking because I have a lot of plastic plants too

I wasnt clear, sorry.

It was the worst part of the process because it was dull. Basing a handful of miniature bases is tedious, but basing ~50 of those was something that I had to firce myself to do.

Glueing the plant parts to bases was very repetitive too and while a hot glue gun is a great tool, the process took longer than I expected.

So it was the worst part of the process because I am impatient.