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

[Malebolgia]

Wow! This is just awesome stuff man! LOVE that Catachan Devil. Perfect mini for the Devil.

[Onebigriver]

Brilliant stuff, very inspiring! Look forward to seeing the flora.

[cheetor]

Thanks again for all of the feedback.

Personally I don't like the were bear model, put the paintjob is great... I think it is because the pose often make it look like the head is a thick worm with a mouth and no face... I guess it doesn't look so much like that, when you see it down on a table.

 

The face is a little easier to see top down, but it is an unusually worm like and alien interpretation of a werebear.  I couldnt place exactly what it reminded me of while I was painting it but it finally dawned on me that the face reminds me of Mikey from Men in Black:



That alien element is actually in part what I like about the model, that it looks less like something from Earth vaguely leech-like with the peculiarly stunted head.  It also looks a little bit like a wampa with the bipedal stance and those big paws.

But there is huge interpretative wiggle room for a subject like this.  The universe is a very big place, with room for very many varieties of space bear.

You really have a thing going here, the beasts and terrain goes so well together.. also with the non beast models.

Thanks.  My corner of the miniature universe is a pulpy, gaudy, shoddy TV set filled, man-in-a-suit monster populated place.  If it looks like a miniature version of the unconvincing patch of sand where a young William Shatner would punch a blue guy in the face before making out with a green lady wearing an unconvincing wig, then I am doing something right.

About the Vor Growlers, I think they would look less like cartoon/muppet creatures after a paintjob from you, I think lot of that comes from their strange paintjobs they usually came in.

I took a look at the various types of Growler for sale (ahem) at Ral Partha Europe and the Fireguts look like the ones that I would enjoy painting the most.  Ral Partha Europe have a shipping promotion on now (enter "SAMHAIN" at checkout) so I indulged in a few.

Where is the Alf mini from?

Four A Miniatures.  The model is a little bit on the tall side for a Melmacian, but the character is immediately recognisable.  Alf usually gets a few laughs when he shows up on the table

Brilliant stuff, very inspiring! Look forward to seeing the flora.

So am I.  I have a lot of it already but I am still waiting on a big chunk of it from an order that I made with Armorcast last August that hasnt even shipped yet...

It will be fun stuff to paint though.  When it finally gets here.

[Earther]

The universe is a very big place, with room for very many varieties of space bear.

A sound philosophy and one which I think we can all live by.

[dijit]

Fantastic stuff there! Really love them all.

[The_Beast]

A sound philosophy and one which I think we can all live by.

All except the picky Virgos... 

Doug

[Michka]

Lovely looking monsters. I applaud your choice of inspiration. Old TV shows, rubber suit monsters and gravel pits are so much more entertaining then CGI critters in a CGI landscape moving through a big budget movie.

Now where did I put my Star Frontiers monsters? I'm feeling inspired. 

[obsidian3d]

Holy...that's some excellent brush work. Great selection of alien beasties!

[cheetor]

Now where did I put my Star Frontiers monsters? I'm feeling inspired. 

An excellent choice sir.  Populating the Mega City 1 Alien Zoo perhaps? 

That place is made for a goofy Dredd scenario.

[Michka]

An excellent choice sir.  Populating the Mega City 1 Alien Zoo perhaps? 

That place is made for a goofy Dredd scenario.

Great idea. I hadn't thought about that. Sounds like a good place to find a dead body.

[cheetor]

After a bit of a break from this project during November and most of December, I started doing some more work on it over the last month or so, primarily on plant related stuff but with a few more fauna too.

First some speed painted FERRO BEASTS.


...some disappointingly soft detailed ALIEN SPACE BATS (with Judge Death soaking up the atmosphere)...


... and a little (thats a 20mm base) DRYAD FAMILIAR that seemed to fit with both the "flora" and "fauna" aspects of the project...


...which nicely segues me into the next chunk of the project, the flora.

I have been working on a lot of these in tandem as I get a lot of suitable jungle terrain bits ready and these are the first finished.  I will get some group photos taken over the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime here are some close ups of some of the flora "character" pieces.  More photos and other info are in the associated blog post for all of these plants.


Firstly a SPIKER (plus a Spiker victim to the left)...



... then a few plant pod things...







...and then the obvious stars of the plant side of the show, the Venus Man-Traps...






All of these got quicker paint jobs than my non-terrain figures would get, but I made sure that they were presentable all the same.

More plants and a whole load of jungle to come over the next week or two.

[Dr Mathias]

Great ideas

I really like RT creatures, I had some ideas for these creatures but you did a much better job finding close proxies.

[Hubminator]

Wow, superb stuff really inspirational!

[phreedh]

Bloomin' heck Paul, those are great! =)

[d phipps]

Beautiful work! Love those pod plants! 


THANKS for sharing.