After removing mold lines, I cut slots into a bunch of 40mm bases with my dremel and mounted the bodies on them. When deciding on how exactly I'd mask the heads to get a clean paintjob sorted. The best masking is of course to paint things separately, With neck, wraithbone vane and collar being attached to the heads, that wasn't an option for me. So I grabbed my hobby saw and got busy! This went remarkably well, aside from some very authentic but minor battle damage on some of the vanes when I slipped with the saw.
After sanding the bottom of the bases even and sticking them on self-adhesive magnetic foil, I got busy with primer. I tried black with a white zential highlight. There is a risk of the yellow running into green, but I'll accept that.
The yellow basecoat was followed up with dark grey on the gun, joints and hoses and white primer on the loincloths. The heads I had stuck on toothpicks and painted them separately.
Here the models stand before varnish, shade, base deco and decals.
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