Dexter & Alvin is an expansion for the Game Ticket to Ride, and was one of my christmas gifts. I LOVE Ticket to Ride but since I’m a super duper geek I couldn’t play this expansion until I painted the figures. I bought the right color paints in the same weekend but when I finally sat down to paint them, I couldn’t find the colors anywhere! I know now that I found a work around, I will find three pots of green games workshop paint and just want to scream! Instead I mixed other GW colors and used a little bit of craft paint.  I also glued nuts to the base since they are top heavy and fall over if you look at them. 3/9/2015

They start out looking like the picture to the right. I first painted them with the GW base “Chaos Black.” Then I painted a base layer of gray on the spaceship, brown on the smoke cloud, and red on the train stations. I mixed the yellow from my Space Marines and a blue Tek had to make the green. I think layered the silver I use for the chain swords on the ship, gun, and back pack. I used a brighter craft paint green and did a light layer on the dinosaur and the alien, making sure to just highlight. I also painted the underbelly of the dino. Then I did some dry brushing on the smoke cloud (two colors), and the train stations. I filled in some of the cracks on the stations too. I used a small brush to get the details in. Then I used two colors of GW shade, one was a blackish color, and then a sepia color, to make it look more three dimensional and more distressed. I painted the nuts in brown and then dipped them in terrain. Lastly I covered them with GW sealant, “Purity Seal.”