Hi

Some lazy batch today with the growing of my Aliens hives. I failed to clean the resin correctly before painting the minis, resulting in my first layers of pure ink to be much more difficult to put on. This minis felt a bit cursed in the end: a brush was destroyed in the inking process, the gloss varnish dried full of bubbles and the result is far from what i wanted, even by my "easy and speed" standard.

Ah well, it's still done.

The Crusher. This bad boy stands on an 80mm base, making it quite a monster. Originally from the infamous Colonial Marines (i think) video game, it brings a powerhouse to the hive without getting too ridiculous like the xeno-t-rex featured in some comic books. The initial plan was to paint big stuff only after every infantry would be done, but it felt frusrating to play the army without a single heavy hitter. Painting wise, this is the most disappointing piece to date: layers of inks were a complete failure, the successive brown dry brushes almost disappeared and seem to have blended together after varnish, and the varnish itself dried with a lot a bubbles... Ah well, at least after that i've ordered quite a lot of browns and ochres paints since it's true i still have only a few.

The Spitters: the only infantry featuring some kind of shooting, sold only with the Hot Landing Zone expansion which explains why i have only 5 of them. The plan was always to make these very dark, without any brown or blue used on the other aliens so that they would be easily recognised and also have their yellow acidic pus packs stand out. So the ink failure was less of an issue with them. I've decided to remove them from the 3d bases they were printed with by Prodos to have them included better on their lipped bases since i'm not very happy with the evolved bases i made before..

That's it for today. Next batch for te hive will be the last infantry with some Infants before getting to the real monsters..

Aliens VS Predators: Spitters & Crusher

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