Rudulian Businessman

Here's another Rudulian alien. Dressed in a dapper suit and carrying a matching briefcase, he's ready for some top level intergalactic business. Alternatively, with his hand to his earpiece, he would be a good bodyguard figure.

The majority of this guy is from Anvil Industries' "Secret Service Team (5)," while his head is from their "Alien Hybrid Heads (7)."

The suit and briefcase are done in Vallejo Game Extra Opaque "Heavy Charcoal," which turned out much more blue than the name would imply, but I like it. There are some highlights done with Vallejo 70.807 "Oxford Blue." The shirt at the collar and cuffs is Vallejo 70.990 "Light Grey." The tie is Vallejo 70.925 "Blue." The skin is a base of Vallejo Game Extra Opaque "Heavy Red" with orange highlights of Craftsmart "Orange Spice" and just a tiny bit of Craftsmart "Dark Orange," which is counterintuitively brighter. The briefcase fittings and the buttons are Vallejo 70.998 "Bronze." The skin and bronze bits were washed with Citadel "Agrax Earthshade" while some parts of the shirt and suit were washed with Citadel "Nuln Oil." I realize I don't normally go into this much detail about the colors, but I think it worked really well and I'd like to be able to repeat it in the future.

This brings us up to three Rudulians: The Mercenary, The Sheriff, and The Businessman.

Rudulian Sheriff

Here's another red alien. Since, like with the Setla aliens, they need a name, I'm calling their species the Rudulians.

This lady is entirely from the Project Z female survivors sprue (aside from the Frostgrave axe across her back). She was one of the most sensibly dressed of the options available.

I was trying out some of my new Vallejo paints. The hat, jacket, and boots are extra opaque Heavy Charcoal. The pants are Oxford Blue. The skin is, once again, extra opaque Heavy Red. The shirt is (probably) Heavy Ochre? There are a number of similar beige colors. Over the skin, hair, and shirt is a wash of Citadel Agrax Earthshade. Over the hat, jacket, pants, boots, and weapons is a wash of Nuln Oil.

With the sweet cowboy hat, this figure strikes me as a town sheriff. You big city folks might have a spaceship and some fancy laser blasters, but don't you cause a ruckus in her town or by the space law of space she'll tan your city slicker hide six ways to space Sunday.

So, yeah, wearing a hat means she doesn't need the forehead ridges and stuff that the other guy has. She also has orange hair. I guess that's a Rudulian thing, too. The hat really blocked my lights from showing her face very well, but she totally has a face.

Here they are together. More will eventually be on their way. I'm apparently all about aliens right now. Maybe I'll even whip up some Rudulian stats for D&D. (Who am I kidding, of course I will.)

Setla Mercenaries

All right, these are the last Setla figures I'm painting for a bit, I promise. These are two more dressed in the uniforms of my 6Gun mercenaries, joining the technician I finished a few days ago.

On the left is a psion, with a cool backpack and some sort of psionic focus attached to a wrist device. This is one of the few poses that I have an exact duplicate of; it's the one in the grey jumpsuit with the gold and white equipment. Aside from the leaning, it's just a pretty solid pose, and I didn't think adding a gun or pouches or anything would add much to the figure.

On the right is a soldier with another Walther MP, like the one slung on the back of the technician. Given their size, an SMG makes a lot of sense. The arm is a cut down version from a Project Z miniature; it works if you don't look too closely. I may just do a hand transplant if I put that gun on any more figures. There were no pouches or equipment to put any orange on, so this guy has a small orange badge on his chest armor.

So, by the numbers, I now have thirteen Setla figures. Three are members of 6Gun, three are orange-suited scientist types, and the other seven all have unique color schemes. While I didn't get them all out, here are the five that I completed most recently, along with another mercenary for scale. (A digital filter has been applied to make them all pop more.)