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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian writes:

My original intent was to have flying flies, but the ones I had didn't look like they were flying really. grin


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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian writes:

Having finished the acid-shooting bugs, my next task were the vicious biting giant alien flies.

I had previously worked on some flies for a fantasy army, and this project was quite similar.

Personal logo Sgt Slag Supporting Member of TMP suggested using "a pearlescent green nail polish" for the eyes. I liked the idea, but didn't want to mess with nail polish. Fortunately, I discovered that Dollar Tree had Ceramcoat Metallic Lime Green paint.

Flies with lime green metallic paint

I glued the flies to the 50mm-square bases I made in the previous article, and applied the lime-green metallic paint to the eyes, not bothering with any primer. Two coats achieved good coverage, then I tidied up with black. I also decided this time to drybrush the fly body with dark gray to bring out the details.

Vicious biting flies

And here are the finished flies.

Vicious biting flies

In 15mm scale, they are humongous.

Vicious biting flies

I didn't apply a sealer coat, as it didn't seem needed.

Vicious biting flies

It perhaps would have been more in the spirit of Alien Squad Leader to have multiple flies per base, but I didn't have any smaller flies that I liked.

Vicious biting flies

Similarly, since these are flying creatures, I considered trying to create a flight stand for them, but realized these models are not in a flying pose.

More to Come!