The figures assembled quickly and easily. I gave them some swords from a couple freebie sprues of Wargames Factory ancients I had got at a convention. I primed them black, and decided to paint the skin tone light blue to give them a more alien look.
I also have a unit of archers which I will be painting next.
The flag is a photo of an Andorian cos-player that I used an 'oil painting' filter on in a graphics program to try and give it the look of a tapestry type flag. I then applied gold lettering and a gold border around the edge. It is meant to look like the banner of a queen or priestess.
The shield decals are from a couple leftover sheets of Games Workshop Space Marine decals I had.
Hmm... Between the blue skin and those Macedonian-style helmets, they have a vaguely Smurfish look to them...
ReplyDeleteHa! You're right, I hadn't realized. Glad I didn't paint the helmets white. :-)
ReplyDelete*lovely* I'm sure the French will succumb!
ReplyDeleteVery nice. A friend painted Zulus blue for VSF, we all called them Blulus.
ReplyDeleteI like the banner. How did you paint it? Or did you paint over a photocopy or something like that?
Where are the decals from?
For the banner I found a picture online of a blue cos-player and downloaded it into a graphics program that had an "oil paint" filter which is designed to make the image look like an oil painting. I used this effect very lightly to just kind of blur the edges of the photo and make it look less 'photo' sharp. I then shrunk the image down and made a side by side reverse duplicate copy of it so I had two sides for the flag, and then printed it on standard computer paper. I then painted on some gold symbols and a gold edging.
ReplyDeleteThe decals are Games Workshop Space Marine 'Dark Angel' Decals.
I hiope this info. helps let me know if you have any further questions.