Spugs!

Hi,

So this weekend was mostly stay-at-home, but the upside is that I finally got around to painting up a mess of Spugs. I painted up all three squads of basic troopers. They just need a little touch-up work and the heavy-weapon guys need some work on their tanks/hoses. Not quite sure what I'm going to do about those yet.

I'm not a fantastic painter, but these guys came together pretty well. They use a yellow and white scheme (based off of the coloring of desert locusts) so the contrast isn't quite as high as I'd like, but they've come together well and with a little bit of finish work I can start using them in various games (probably 5150 with some Legion of Steel UNE to serve as the human side).

I still have a small batch of spugs to paint up, but they're going to require a bit more work with assembly than the basic troopers did. The Comm spugs have some fiddly bits that will need an accelerator to get the glue to set up quickly and the Spugnaught may require pinning, which is something I've never done on a figure before. Still, it's nice to have made such great progress on these guys. Once they're finished off I can start buying some more!

I'm looking at the Hydrassians, the Drakh and the Quar. But there's also the airship pirates idea I've been kicking around.

later
Tom