Here are some close-up shots of the Free Martian test army. I pulled an older digital camera out of storage, hoping it would focus better on small objects than my general-purpose cell phone. It does, provided I don't get it too close to the target model. (You can see the offending shots below.)
In painting the Free Martians, I chose a color pallette away from the medium greens, blues and reds you normally see in wargames. I chose brighter colors like purples, light blues, and yellowish greens. (Only the command group has a conventional-looking red.)
South-west art often features such bold, bright colors. To someone used to life in the green-grey East Coast of the US, such colors seemed garish to me. Then I moved to Tucson for a few years, and I realized that against the red-brown landscape and blazing sky of the southwest, such strong colors looked really amazing. They matched the landscape. So I have tried that sort of pallette out on my Martians.
 |
| The standard ray-beam cannon. |
 |
| The alternatate "anti-tank" cannon. |
 |
| A hunter with a "grenade launcher." |
|
| A hunter with a ray beam gun, in a blurry shot. |
 |
| The standard lancer. I am least happy with the green color. It was going to be orange, but orange is a pain to paint. |
 |
| A shieldsman. |
 |
| A shieldsman "sergeant" with a ray gun. One of the blurrier shots. |
 |
| The command group in standard wargaming red. Boring but there are only 3 of them. |
No comments :
Post a Comment