Deep Blue Sea Section

A short painting update, as the weekly conveyor belt produces results. I know how it looks, but don't worry, it's quite safe for work.

Charlotte had really let herself go.

Deep Madness is technically next on my painting list. It has been for some time now, other things keep creeping ahead of it thanks to hobby madness. Without further ado, here are some of its splendid monstrosities!

King Willyhead here is actually the Bathophobia, one of the boss monsters in the game. 

His penile dysfunction appendage at the top is probably just an accident, it's a lamprey-mouthed tentacle like the others here really. For sure. 

This is a Wrecked, a diver that's been infested by something horrible. 

And this cuddly delight is a Twisted. Simple descriptive names, tells you so much about them.

And these are some of the heroic crew attempting to not go mad in the abyss.

Jared Drake

Arthur Weyland

Arthur Weyland's mysterious device

Samuel Smith

No idea which pop culture reference they're trying to shoehorn in here. He's off like a lambda the slaughter.

They are lovely models, really. Very daunting trying to paint eyes on those good guys, they are a lot less heroic scale than 40K stuff. Because of their slender scale, in fact, the facial detail is a bit smooth, not easy to bring out the detail anyway. Still, a good little group, and plenty more to practice on!

The seaweed on the bases, the feeble concession to the fact the game they're from takes place in an underwater research complex whose floors I have no intention of modelling, is paper soaked in PVA and green ink. It looks adequate, and I'm happy.

Plenty more of all of it, in fact. Although my daughters have taken a fair haul and claimed it as early inheritance, but I'm not too fussed - there is such a wealth of identikit horrors, some quite small and fiddly like the Bloated spider creature at the top, they're unlikely to get done in a rush. Or if there's anything else at all to paint - to whit, this small collection of sci-fi generators for Necromunda and 40K cover.

Dead easy to make these - a plastic Hubba-Bubba gum carton. Don't eat the gum, it's vile and much too sugary. Just chuck it, split the carton and glue it to a base, then paint it to your taste. Not bad for 50p!