Grath @ MindSay

So I got around an hour to paint last night, and finished the bronze detail on my Grath minis!

Once I do their guns, they're ready to go!  The only extra detail I might try is some "bar codes" on their skulls - that's how the example picture is done, and it looks pretty cool.  Maybe I could use a fine-tip sharpie to get very thin lines...

I've been going back and forth about how to paint their guns.  Usually, I just go for the cheap and easy "paint the whole gun in gunmetal silver" approach, but these guns are so large that they deserve a bit more detail.

Since the Grath are pretty low-tech for a scifi race, I'm going to keep the barrel and stock metalic, but paint the body and magazine in some other color.  Maybe blood red, just for contrast?  Grath aren't too worried about hiding and camo, so they'd probably go for something like that.

I didn't work on the peasants any last night, but I *did* make some good progress on my 10 Grath figures.

I decided that it would be cool to make their armor plating bronze color, and I got the first undercoat (Citadel's "Tin Bitz") painted last night.  It's not much, but the plates are somewhat detailed work and slow going.

Next up is the bronze coating.  Then, once I get their guns done, they're ready to go.  (I've already painted their skin and body-suits.)

This weekend, I made a little progress on my lead pile.

I got my "Spugnaught" and Gort Beast assembled, though I'm still trying to get my Landmate/"C.L.A.W.S." mech put together.

I also got base coats on all my Hishen and Grath figures.  They still need two or three more nights of work before they're any good, but "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" and all that.

Lastly, I picked up some nice model railroad trees on sale at Hobby Lobby.  What's nice is that they're already assembled, so I can use 'em right away, though I need to glue some washers to their bases to help 'em stand up more reliably, so there is a *little* craft work to do.  Combined with oval-ish green piece of felt, they make a nice little grove.  Just the thing for some soldiers to hide in. :-)