Well I managed to get some time together to do some painting between Xmas ad New Year's Day and this post is my baseline in the sand to get things moving for this year's challenge. Given that I had limited time to do anything, I opted for some simple figures to get going, hopefully I'll be able to tackle some more challenging subjects in the coming weeks!
 | The start of my Zombicide Invader Xenos Brood.
10 x mysterious aliens, determined to destrroyeverything in their way.
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A closer view of some of the Xenos.
Bases were painted to tie in to the game components,
anything outside the protective buildings is an arid, orange desert! |
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| Here you can see the relative size of the Xeno Drones, Hunters and Tanks |
I start by presenting 10 x 28 mm Zombicide Invader Xenos, hopefully many of you will be familiar with this game - basically a remote mining station ion some far flung planet that has been attacked by a mysterious alien race, helbent on destroying all human and other alien life fto be found there....
So the Xenos are the baddies in the game, they com ein many shapes and sizes but here we have just three forms - the Drones/Workers, the Hunters and the Tanks!
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| Three Xeno Drones or Workers |
I approached painting all of these in a similar way, attempting to stay true to the artwork in the original game. All figures are undecoated in a cream basecoat to which is applied a coat of Army Painter Runic Grey speed paint. This dries quickly and I then drybrushed the figures' heads, hands, chest and feet with the cream & somewhite paint to bring out the highlights.
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| Four Xeno Hunters, much speedier than the Drones and Tanks. |
These areas were then given a watered down black wash to pick out contrast details before painting the tenticles with a purple speed paint, to make these stand out even more. Further details such as boils are picked out in yellow, where exposed brains are on show I have used green for these areas and finally after a matt varnish, red ink is used tto cover hands, claws and teeth to give a suitably horric finish.
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| Three Xeno Tanks, massive, powerful beasts with tenticles and claws.... |
Next we have 10 x 28mm Dr Who Weeping Angels, these figures were embarrassingly easy to paint and complete, I almost feel bad claiming the points but on the up side there are no more of these to be painted now!
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| The group of 10 x Weeping Angels, basically animated statues! |
The weeping Angels are one of Dr Who's many adersaries who basically maifest themselves as statues until looked upon by their victims, at which point the Weeping Angel animates its-self and takles control of it's victim's mind.
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| Close-up of some of the group |
These figures were all undercoated medium grey before taking a watered down black ink wash. When dry the figures were drybrushed with a lighter grey and then varnished and based - as simple as that!
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| And the other end of the line |
My final contribution today is a group of 6 x 28mm Daleks, now some older challenge readers ay remember back in 2019, I painted a number of Daleks for the challenge at that time. I was sure that the guys at my local club would see the light and join in for a few Dr Who games. Sadly, I was wrong and the games never materialised so a couple years ago I sold all my Dr Who toys.
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| The group of 6 x Daleks. Eagle-eyed readers will see that the front two figures are from Warlod Games (now discontinued), others are from Dr Who Moster Army packs, originally supplied on magazine covers in the UK. |
Imagine my surprise, 6 years after I blazed the trail, the club decided the next new period would be Dr Who! Hence I am re-acquiring and painting a whole new set of Dr Who figures....
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| The six Daleks in line |
So these Daleks are undercoated in gunmetal, before black bumbers are then added and black ink used to add definition to the gratings around the Dalek heads. All the silver work is then drybrushed bright silver, before adding details for the orange head lights, sky blue domes and lenses in theis viewing devices.
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| A final view! |
The figures were then varnished and based.
So that's it for my first post for this year's challenge, what else have I on the go? Well more Daleks, some renaissance crossbowmen, Korean War & Arab/Isreali tanks and lots and lots of Orcs!
Big Stompy Robots of Death & Squirrel Points
I'm claiming a Squirrel point each for the Xenos, Daleks & Weeping Angels, so 3 in total!
I'm hoping that Daleks will count as Big Stompy Robots of Death, they are robotic and they deal a lot of death, so I'll leave that decision to David Bromley and his minions.
6 Big Stompy Robots of Death pointys for the 6 Daleks.
Challenge Points
10 x 28mm Zombicide Invader Xenos @ 5 points ea. 50 Points
10 x 28mm Weeping Angels @ 5 points ea. 50 Points
6 x 28mm Daleks @ 5 points ea. 30 Points
TOTAL 130 Points
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First, welcome back to the Challenge, Mike!
Your opening entry is quite impressive and industrious! I especially like your xenos - the pink tentacly bits contrast nicely with the grey. The Daleks are iconic as well and look like an ominous EV charging station when all ranked up. I look forward to seeing the next foray on your painting list!
- Curt