'Take us to your leader'

Truly, Etsy is the impulse buy section of the internet.

I only saw these alien invaders because they popped up in the "similar to your favourites" section of my homepage and, well, it had to be done. I painted them over the past couple of days and they were a nice break from the more complicated stuff I've been doing recently.

I do love the James Bond-esque pose of the one on the left. Anyway, after priming them with grey spray paint I looked around my paint collection for a suitable spacesuit colour. I decided on Canoptek Alloy, a very light gold that I've owned for months but never actually used. Two thin coats were all it took to make the aliens look suitably otherworldly. 

In case you're wondering why they have bare feet, it's because the feet looked weird painted gold so I used their skin tone.

Speaking of skin tones, despite these being the classic grey aliens of abduction stories and X-Files fame I didn't want just a dull grey look. Instead I used Warpfiend Grey to basecoat them, some Druchii Violet mixed with Vallejo glaze medium to shade them, and then Slaanesh Grey for the highlights.

After the skin was dry I mixed some more glaze medium with Seraphim Sepia and shaded their spacesuits.

The middle one seems to be performing Hamlet while invading Earth, which is some pretty good multitasking.

All the weapons were painted Leadbealcher and washed with Nuln Oil, as were any silvery parts of their suits. The three helmets were given a base of Chocolate Brown and a coat of Bronze before being washed with more Seraphim Sepia. Their eyes were painted Black and the heavy weapon thingy on the right had its tip glazed with Thousand Sons Blue, Deep Sky Blue, Sky Blue and White.

Their bases are just covered with Vallejo Black Lava paste and then painted Violet before being drybrushed with Hexed Lichen and Ahriman Blue.

There are nine of these chaps because the tenth suffered a fatal accident when I dropped him on the hardwood floor and he basically shattered. I was able to recover most of him, but his right leg and arm are having the holiday of a lifetime somewhere in the kitchen.