The Stranglers are the last enemy squad from the "City of the Ancients" basebox. Thus, I now painted all monsters from this base game! It's a mix of old and new odels. The two models on the front right and front middle are the 3 sculpts from the old game. The other 4 are the new model. Sadly there's only one pose now, and all had one badly moulded claw. On the other hand they are slightly bigger now and only one part, while the old sculpts had 4 parts.

The models almost drove me mad. I just couldn't get them to look like I wanted, until Dorian told me about the new painting trick "Slapchop". For this, the model gets a dark basecoat and is then drybrushed with several shades of grey up to white. Then the required colours are added as thinned-down paint, ink or contrast paint. And that worked! The Stranglers were shaded dark grey to white. Then I added a thin layer of thinned-down blue metallic and afterwards a blue Contrast Colour, which made the blue pop and hid the last few traces of silver. The gums were drybrushed with thinned-down paints too, while the teeth and claws were painted traditionally.

Painted by Eph