Greetings fellows, another quick update for you this week – been chipping away at my new Eru-Kin project and have three new troops to share with you, but first up I want to share a little terrain project that I have been doing on the side. I have been wanting to do a nice bit of jungle terrain for ages now – visions of steaming alien deathworlds, bizarre prehistoric ‘lost worlds’ and psychedelic fantasy jungles are all inspirations here. Two things have motivated me to finally get my bum in gear with this – 1: my Space Frogs need a home planet, and 2: the release of a certain Frostgrave spin-off called Ghost Archipelago, (which looks like a fantastic game!).
When thinking on how best to make this happen, I thought back to Aiden’s superb jungle terrain for the Inquisitor Cynole game at BOYL 2016, and to Paul’s stunning deathworld jungle project over on Sho3box. I’m not about to question such hobby geniuses, (genii?), so I decided to trawl the interwebs for suitable low-cost aquarium plants, and picked out a few brightly coloured examples to base up:
I’ve sprinkled a liberal pinch of skullage around the place – partly to show scale, but also because we all know that skulls are cool! And no… I’m not sure where the rest of the bones are either, (best not to ask I think). I’ll be adding more to this terrain set as time goes by, but I’m quite pleased with how this little side project has started out.
So, on to the latest spawning for my Eru-Kin faction – I have three more basic troops to add to the mix this week. These guys share the same body as the first three that I painted up, but have different weapons & heads so they add a nice bit of interest to the group. I also wanted to try out some new skin tones, so I tested purple, blue & a khaki green:
I’m pretty pleased with how they turned out – doesn’t it all make more sense in a freaky space-jungle?? I think I’ll repeat these skin colours with the final three troops. Here they are by squad – as denoted by the loincloths, just to give you an idea of how it is all coming together, (the General has photobombed a couple of shots too):
Anyway, that’s yer lot for this week! I’m aiming to get the final 3 troopers finished for the next post, plus maybe some more jungle terrain… I am also looking to dip back into Fantasy & build something a wee bit special for my Undead – hopefully ticking off something for Deadcember, and Azazel’s ‘Painting Decemb-uary’ challenge along the way! Catch you all next time :-)
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Nice one, mate! The plants look very psychadelic indeed and the Space Frogs keep on delivering. I’m actually also doing a bit of Death World terrain, but I’m painting it to fit my Albino Forest trees.
Cheers mate, psychedelic is the aim! I think I’ve been licking too many space frogs ;-) Good point – the bases for these should also match my albino forest stuff, so should work together as well (though I haven’t tested the theory yet)
That’s excellent, I really need to do something like that as well. I’m eager to get our combined frog forces on a table now !
Yesss!! We need to do that mate – Amphibians for the win!
Nice, they go together very well. Coincidentally I have my aquarium plants out as well at the moment since I am working on some more Catachans.
Cheers mate – and yeah, aquarium plants are really useful for this sort of thing… and really inexpensive as well – especially compared to the GW kit!
I have a few of the Eru-kin, but you have seemed to accumulated an army! The color schemes and choice of plants look very natural. When do we get to see a “all hands” shot?
THey look really great.
Thanks mate, glad you like them! I did get quite a few, so it may be a while before they are all done – plus a few vehicles I have planned :-) The aim is to have a full army in time for BOYL next year
Interesting, can’t wait to see what kind of vehicles the frogs pilot! Something like hopping tanks or jeeps would be pretty awesome.
I’m thinking skimmers… we’ll see :-)
I also like the Space Frogs (and the terrain) quite a lot and think they go together nicely.
Thanks Ann :-)
Magnificent! It makes all sense, I love it!
Hey, thanks Suber! btw, I’m still having issues dropping comments on other blogs from my phone mate – including yours… very frustrating!
Psychedelic Man!!!! What a great idea for terrain for the Space Frogs. It suits them perfectly. I think an algae filled pond would be a nice piece of terrain too with some bright swampy trees. Great stuff mate. Also a large scale Toad would be cool as some Daemon thing or brute leader.
Cheers mate – it is all a bit trippy isn’t it! I’ll certainly be adding more jungle stuff, and water features are a must for Ghost Archipelago, so that will be happening for sure! I’m also looking to add vehicles and the like to the Eru-Kin further down the road – not sure about a daemon, but a dreadnought or two would be nice ;-)
Wow, I’d love a platoon of these guys for a sci-fi Combat Patrol game! They look great, love the shading
Thanks Mark, they are great for pulp/retro sci-fi aren’t they? I reckon they would look great against your Warbots ;-)
Absolutely!
Who knew that those brightly coloured frogs were actually wearing camouflage until we saw their homeworld! Looking good once again mate – I’m not normally a fan of aquarium plants for terrain (or even in aquariums truth be told) but you’ve pulled those off with aplomb.
Doh, fat fingers – see below 👇
Cheers dude, I feel ya- the whole psychadelic dream jungle isn’t everyones cuppa, but I’m happy that these are working for you. It’s all about the base I reckon ;-)
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Space frogmen live in kaleidoscopic space jungles. It’s science.
You got some nice vivid plants, they look perfect with those lovely erukin.
This project is shaping up very nicely.
Thanks dude – of course science! ;-)
Nice work mate— these are looking good!
Cheers Warbs, pretty eye-catching aren’t they? :-)