Old School here with another kill point for the Painting Challenge! This week I have painted by Canoptek Spyder conversions. You may remember these "Bender-esque" droids from a post I wrote earlier this year (before the new spyders kits dropped) and while they may look kind of funny, I do like them much more after painting them. Let's take a look at these critters.
The original conversion post contains all of the details on how they were made and it can be found here. The only thing I did after that was use some of the new wraith face plates to give them a menacing cyclops look.
I painted these much the same way I painted my destroyer lord, though the reason I kept the head white is because that is how my scarabs look and I just figured that Spyders were a bigger, more sophisticated scarab ... with bendy arms.
Now what about those bendy arms? Yeah, I know they are blue, which is usually the color of weapons, particularly shooty or powered ones, but the truth is that they just didn't look right any other way, so I painted them blue for the sake of balance and what the hell, I like like them and they are MCs with big powered muscley arms (well bendy robot ones anyway).
That is it for now, I have been working on barges the last few days and should be posting some by next week ... also, I just got a giant package from Dicebucket! I am going to be busy ... anyway let me know what you think of the Spyders!
Really nice weathering effect on those, very convincing.
ReplyDeleteGreat work, OST! Is there a how-to on the weathering?
ReplyDeleteThank you guys.
ReplyDeleteI explain the weathering in one of the links but I can certainly make a video this weekend about it. It is foolishly easy to achieve and makes you look like an ace painter.
Very nice. And while the conversions were done before the kits, I personally like the fact that not only do they look well done, they are different than what others will field!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I have some little conversions sprinkled in there. The warriors have plastic rods from immortal guass weapons, the spyders are weird, my crypteks have some funny little conversions and a few other things. I wanted the army to have some little nuances that can pop up in any list I run. It also helps when painting and conversions are taken into account at tourneys.
ReplyDeleteVery nicely done. They look fantastic.
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