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Palansi
These are Palansi from Cobalt-1. I rather like them and I had great fun painting these guys. The only downside is the hard alloy West Wind uses for them.
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Palansi
Another view of the first group of Palansi warriors.
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Palansi
Commander, two warriors and close combat support. As I don't have the actual Cobalt-1 books (I just like the miniatures), I don't know what that's supposed to be called... but I sure wouldn't want to meet one in a dark alley!
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Palansi
Warriors and the launcher guy. They have a neat bio-look all over, but the heavy weapon guys really take the cake.
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Palansi Warrior
There are two packs of three warriors in the line, but only five different sculpts. This is the pose that's duplicated and appears in both Palansi Trooper packs.
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Palansi Launcher
I guess it also could be a sonic weapon of some sort...
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Palansi Launcher
I think I should have gone for a brighter paint scheme with the launcher.
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Palansi Warrior
Being essentially naked, the Palansi offer great opportunity to patterns and color switches. I'd say they'd look really great with blending, if I only could do that.
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Palansi Warrior
I tried for a blend effect on the claws, but it didn't quite work out so well...
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WIP: Alien landscape
I snapped a picture of forthcoming terrain items.
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Palansi Warrior
At first I thought of painting the weapon in flesh tones, but it didn't have enough contrast with the pink, so I made it blue instead.
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Palansi Warrior
I have no idea what the spinal column hanging from the gun is supposed to be - ammo? But it looks cool. That's worth a +1 at least :)
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Palansi Warrior
And here's the rear view. I could have tried to pick out different areas in different colors, like the backpack bulge, but in the end I thought they'd look more biological if everything was sort of fused together in the same color scheme without clear boundaries.
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Palansi Warrior
And here's the duplicate warrior. The position of the claw arm is slightly different, but that's just a little bending.
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Palansi Leader
I tried for a bamboo-like effect on the haft, but it didn't quite work out. I opted against metallic blades and instead highlighted the thing in green.
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Palansi Leader
Closeup. This claw was semi-successful. Note the symbiotic badge on the chest.
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Palansi Leader
Another view of the leader.
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Palansi Tentacles
Coming at you. This was a real fun model to paint.
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Palansi Tentacles
The downside is that the thing is very front-heavy. To balance it, I sawed a bullet in half and glued it to the base as a counterweight.
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Palansi Tentacles
From the back. As you can see, the tentacle thing switches from dark red on the back to light orange at the tentacle tips. This is probably closest I've come to pulling off a blending effect.
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WIP: Cratered hill
The surface texture, including the crater, is done with a hot air gun. Worked surprisingly well really.
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Palansi Tentacles
Top view.
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Palansi Tentacles
Closeup on the trooper, showing the control handle.
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Palansi
And the top view again.
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Palansi in alien landscape
I plonked down some of the alien landscape items to show them with the Palansi.
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Palansi in alien landscape
I've always thought that SciFi terrain rarely is alien enough, and then I decided to do these pieces.
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Alien landscape
All of these terrain items were made from polyfoam. I guess I could do a pictorial about it if anyone's interested.
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Oldies
Look ma, it's a reversible hill! These are very old Warhammer 40,000 figures, from around the time Rogue Trader was launched (1987-88). I painted them back then.
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Oldies
Two original space orks.
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Oldies
Orks from the back. Note the fashionable pink and orange.
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Oldies
Eldar warrior. Back then I couldn't afford very many miniatures, so I spent more time working on them, like with the base here. Those are airgun pellets.
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Milk carton house
This was my attempt to use an empty milk carton as a skeleton for a house. I cast a little plaster on the bottom and filled the rest with polyfoam (which causes the slight bulging.
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Oldies
Eldar warrior alter ego?
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Oldies
Eldar warrior from behind.
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Oldies
Space dwarf, aka squat. Back in the day, GW used to give an individual name to every single miniature they released. Every single one. And not just trooper-1, 2 and 3, but a real name. These squats had names like Uzi Smith and Colt Wesson.
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Oldies
JD has a flamethrower, methinks. Being sensitive about his height, he carries around a block to stand on.
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Oldies
Initials on the backpack. I tried a lot of this writing stuff at that time. I wonder why...
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Oldies
Squat adventurer in power armor. I used to do this a lot back then - it's basically just an ink wash over bare metal.
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Oldies
And another view from the back. It takes a few layers of wash to get it to really stick to bare metal.
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Bloodbowl
This isn't 40K, this is BloodBowl. For some strange reason, I bought one blister of mixed BB players. This is the only one I actually painted.
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Beaky Marines
Ahh! The good old days! These were real fun to do. Lots of bits and pieces and easy conversion possibilities.
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Beaky Marines
Sergeant Uruk of the Purple Hearts marines. I chopped the head off a crossbow orc from another manufacturer. Tamiya WWII German 1/32 accessories got incorporated into the models a lot.
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Milk carton house
Another view of the milk carton house. I tried maybe four or five cartons, but all the other ones bulged way too much to be useful.
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Beaky Marines
I wrote the names with calligraphy ink.
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Beaky Marines
The shuriken catapult is converted using brake and clutch handles from a motorbike kit. I presume the magazine is a former engine part from the same kit, but I'm not quite sure.
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Beaky Marines
Power Glove and tri-blade bayonet.
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Beaky Marines
After seeing Little Shop of Horrors, I just had to do something mean and green. Here's sergeant Audrey and a flamer guy.
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Beaky Marines
More mean and green marines.
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Beaky Marines
I still think this is the best model of Space Marine armors they did.
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Beaky Marines
The grey squad.
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Beaky Marines
The grey squad was fairly vanilla.
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Beaky Marines
Perhaps a bit assaulty with all those bolt pistols. The thing on the sergeant's base is a coin.
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Beaky Marines
And the final brother marine...
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Oldies
This is an odd bunch.
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Oldies
I'm not 100% sure whether I painted this or not. The text on the shoulder is mine, though.
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Oldies
It might be that someone else did the conversion and I painted him...
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Beaky Marines
Missile launcher from the Purple Hearts.
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Beaky Marines
Another view of the missile launcher.
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Oldies
I did not paint the marine. Can't recall who did, though. The other guy is from an early human adventurers line.
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Oldies
Very early Imperial Guard. Note the bionic leg.
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Chainsaw Warriors
These were Limited Edition figures to go with the launch of the Chainsaw Warrior boardgame, which I also have. The game is actually great fun, but has absolutely no use for miniatures (it's really a card game). Though a Meat Machine miniature sure would be nice...
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Chainsaw Warrior
I was still using enamels when I did these. This guy has a SMG and a combat chainsaw.
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Chainsaw Warrior
Another warrior, this time with Reaper HMG if I remember correctly.
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Chainsaw Warrior
And another one with a missile launcher. Rather powerful weapon, but only four shots...
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Original Marines
These were actually done for Traveller, but they show the future lines of beaky marines.
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Oldies
I didn't do the ork. The guy in red is actually an Imperial Guardsman conversion I did for a Fantasy Battle project (that never got off the ground).
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Oldies
Imperial Guardsman.
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Space Ninja
Even hard vacuum can not stop Nippon's best!
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Space Ninja
This is a simple conversion done with a Dixon ninja and a spare early 40K backpack.
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