Alien jungle base opinions

 Hi guys 

Working on the alien jungle base for my Kurita Shadow Hawk, and would like some opinions, this theme will tie 5 15mm Battletech forces and some other sci-fi projects together, so I want to get it right now.

The description I’m using for this is “dark alien jungle horror”, I chose a colour palette of green with purple accents.

Dark- I don’t think I have gone dark enough with the base colour, it’s the darkest rattle can I have, I think in future I’ll do a darker mix and apply with my airbrush, and my green tea ground colour is a bit to light, I’ll have to mix in some darker tea leaves. 

Alien - I have seen a few attempts at alien basing, they are usually bright, multicoloured and unconvincing to my eye, I wanted to create something that was recognisable (jungle) yet alien enough that you can easily tell it’s alien. 

Jungle - I don’t think I’ve been successful in creating a jungle theme yet, it’s looking to dry, I could either spray the whole base with a clear gloss coat, or brush pant the plants gloss to replicate moister, there’s not enough height to the foliage, I think I need to add standing trees, but I don’t want to model full trees on the base, I might try and add a knee high trunk, how should I end the top of the trunk, to elude to the fact the tree keeps going up, just cut it flat and paint the top black? Or will that look weird? In future I think I need 2 or 3 trees for a base of this size, I need to add more vines, hanging lichen, and long grass all to give height to the base.

Horror - not sure, does it look like a terrain you would be happy to be in? I may add some alien fauna to a future base to accentuate the horror, a giant alien spider (not disguised as a clown) or some such. 

Colour scheme - I think at the moment there’s to much purple, however if I add more trees, vines and hanging  lichen, all green, it may counter balance the purple, the blue plant is out of the colour palette, but I think it work, I may add 1 item per base that not green or purple. 

Any suggestions on how to improve on the dark alien jungle horror theme? 

20mm US paras for Normandy

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Some 20mm US paras (Simon Soldiers) and Germans (AB) for Normandy finished on commission. 

15mm Kurita Shadowhawk mech WIP

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The first of my Kurita mechs is nearing completion, this Shadowhawks paint scheme is based on the Amaterasu, an all female Draconis Combine unit, I’m only doing one in this colour scheme, so I will have to come up with a backstory as to why they are here, the markings are a combination of hand painted and decals, the hand painted ones are gibberish, as I do not write/speak Japanese.

I have always liked the theme of dark jungle horror, Vietnam war movies, predator etc, so have decided to set my 15mm Battletech projects on alien jungle terrain, the overall terrain colour will be green, with very small amount of understated purple shades, these are my thoughts, whether I can pull it off is another matter, the project will cover 5 factions, with 8-12 mechs each, plus vehicles and infantry, and will have Kurita, Steiner, Jade Falcon the Rasalhague republic and a Kurita based Merc company.

I still have some painting to do on this mech, the cockpit glass, heat sinks and some other small details, then I will weather it some more, then finish the base, the base will have a lot more foliage when done. 

15mm Kurita Mechs

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I haven’t posted in a little while, I have got ba k into my 15mm sci-fi projects and have been having fun fluttering between unfinished bits, I working on my 15mm blood angels, and my 15mm Battletech, here are some Kurita mechs I’m working on, still a long way to go, but a decent start, I did the shadowhawk (the red and tan one) a while ago, but it still needs to be finished off, I’m also working on Lyran guards and tanks and what not, will do posts on them later. 

All the mechs were printed by myself, the 3 whole mechs were done on my old machine, and have quite bad print lines, I was having a lot of trouble with that machine at the time, the hunchback (in 2 halves) was printed on my newer machine, and is quite nice.