Showing posts with label bugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bugs. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

It's Been Buggin' Me

All the way back in 2022 I bought a set of Arthropods which I finally built and painted in 2023 (see earlier posts). When I finished them, I kept thinking to myself that one was missing.  After looking around for it for a bit, I wrote it off as a false memory.  WRONG!

Last week while looking for something different to paint, I came across the long lost little bugger in a bag with a bunch of other minis that I haven't gotten around to dealing with yet.

So behold Arthropod #4; assembled, painted, and positioned on a custom base I made for said creature.  It looks quite menacing.  Rally the troopers!  "Everybody fights.  No one quits."







Thursday, November 2, 2023

Arachnaphobia



In an earlier post I mentioned I was working on a large Spider Army.  It's finally done and looks pretty awesome.  I made a total of 48 of them.  There are 4 different poses.  Each one is hand painted and comes on a fully customized base.  There are 4 different bases.  One with branches and sticks.  One with a human skull.  The other two have either a small or large rock on them.  No two are alike.

My original plan was to use them as a massive army allied with the Drow and/or Driders. I also considered them for some "Bugs" for a SciFi game. Unfortunately for me, I'm running out of storage space.  I think I'm going to put a bunch of them up for sale.  (Fun Fact:  Did you know a group of spiders is referred to as a clutter or cluster?) You can get these cool lookin' critters on Etsy or on eBay . Maybe you'll get caught in their web and buy a bunch.  Until then, stay safe out there.




Saturday, September 2, 2023

Creepy Crawlers


Does anyone still remember those?  Does anyone still have burn scars from the heater thingy??  Good times!  These creepy crawlers aren't quite the same, but cool none-the-less.

The big guy is a repaint and slightly modified Final Faction Kharn Huntra figure from the Dollar Tree.  I closed the holes in the launchers with some putty.  I gave it a coat of carbon paint.  I then drybrushed metallic green over the raised areas.  The teeth were painted tan and the eyes metallic red.  When the teeth dried, I gave them a red wash.  When it dried, I came back in with a light beige to highlight them.  

The areas that I puttied were painted carbon.  I next gave them a light coat of the metallic green.  A watered down dab of lime green was gently applied to where I closed the holes and lastly some watered down black was added there as well.  The whole thing was clear-coated and placed on an oval base.  

The small spider is my prototype for my upcoming spider army.  The body was painted brown and the legs were painted with alternating sections of gray and tan.  When everything dried, I gave it a black wash.  Once it dried, I went back and drybrushed the legs and mandibles with a light beige.  I added a lighter brown to the body segments.  I then went back in with some black on the rear of the figure, were the segments meet, and were the legs attach to the body.  Lastly, some gold touches were added to the eyes.

Like the Huntra figure, this spider was clear-coated and given a base.  Not bad for a day's work.

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Whiskey a Oh Oh


The structure is a Technolog kit that I had built as a firebase a few years back. I had the image in mind of Outpost Whiskey from Starship Troopers.  It didn't go quite the way I planned so I made it more of an abandoned outpost.  Bored last night, I dug out my Mobile Infantry (from Mongoose Publishing) and ordered them out to said firebase just in time to get overrun by da bugs.  Sorry guys.  My bad.

The "bugs" are still a WIP.  I  hope to finish them next week.  Waiting in the wings is a Rancor Beast all primed and ready to go.  Check out the pic.