The gang grows ...

 

Here's another brace of rodenty types. Like the other two, they're quite simply painted and then heavily black-lined with ink to sharpen them up. Black-lining is an unfashionable technique, but I'm quite fond of it - especially on old plastic miniatures with soft details. 

Space rats!

 Here are a couple of scuttling aliens for sci-fi skirmish games. The chap on the right is a straight-up Mantic Veermyn; the one on the left is a converted GW Skaven night runner. There are few things more puerile - or more satisfying! - than glueing a blaster on a fantasy miniature and calling him a spaceman.