LE Space santa gone bad !

For this season of the year, it's important to choose the right models I think. Having already failed at painting my LE Sanity Claws, I've decided to get cracking on the LE6 Space Santa since it's a sci-fi model and that the sculpt is far more delicate and crisp than its chaotic counterpart...

But see, as often in this little world of tiny toy soldiers, people have the same ideas as you do and they most of the time have them BEFORE you and generally do them BETTER than you would...

Here's an example :

Paintjob and picture from the Sho3box.

So with the full Christmas vibe done for the model, what do I have left ?

This ?

or this ?

Well obviously no since those have been done too so about using every feature on teh model to do something else like this :

So here we are, a bad Santa who's coming after the real ones (yeah, plural, do you think he could do that alone in a night ? Duh...) to steal the best presents after they've delivered them (he just has to wait in the rich areas or higher levels of the hives.

Painting wise, the sculpt and casts were magnificent so pleasure was here the whole time (That's Bob Naismith for you). I kept a dark grey for the whole suit and added blue intersections to add some vibrance. The beard had to be different from white and a dirty brown was just what I needed. I've kept the gun very simple to avoid showing it looks like a Xmas Cracker (didn't even know what that was until I was told so... we french tend to take Xmas less seriously than other countries it seems...)

Bad Santa will of course accept commissions and will be able to trade his "gifts" to the bastards who dare buy them...

But during breaks he can also make parties and shows for rich families...

I don't know if I'll be able to show any thing more before the new year but given the date, let me wish you the happiest celebrations for this end of year (Christmas or whatever you want to celebrate) !

Oh and like I was suggested, if you don't have this tune in mond right now, you should probably check a doctor :