My Tyranids so far

Not a great update other than having finished my first eight Genestealers.

Overall I am enjoying modelling and painting Tyranids and am so far pretty happy with my painting. 

Best tip I can give to anyone new to this hobby is to go watch online tutorials.  When I started I was all'nah, I don't need to do that.'  But seriously, they are wonderful.  Not only have these people gone out of their way to share their knowledge they are also, mostly, awesome painters.  If you can find someone painting up the unit your are currently painting then all the better.  Best places to look, that I have found so far, are YouTube, www.miniwargaming.com or Dakka Dakka.

My army so far.

Genestealers & Hive Tyrant progress

So, listening to Dave's Vlog @ Miniwargamers while progressing my own new Tyranid army.

Yep, my Hive Tyrant is coming along monsterously well sticking with that Hive Fleet Behemoth inspired theme; I'll come up with some of my own background later.  As you can see I'm also wanting to keep the bright highlights, simply because I like the look.

GENESTEALERS

Decided to get started on another one of my Troop choices so decided to assemble the box of Genestealers I bought.  It took me a couple of days to decide how I wanted to equip them but have decided I'm going to go with Scything Talons (re-roll Attack rolls of a 1) and I'll choose Toxic Sacs depending upon who I am facing.  My Termagants will certainly be having Toxic Sac though.

The Behemoth colour scheme is slightly more difficult with Genestealers, in my opinion, due to them having less carapace than other Tyranid models.   The model in the picture above have just had the Chaos Black undercoat & Mechrite Red coat.  I'll be applying Gore Red shortly.

Hive Tyrant & Mycetic Spore Pod

Gone through a few basic steps with my Hive Tyrant.  Oh, and as you can see I decided to model him with the Heavy Venom Canon.

So, undercoated black, painted body Mechrite Red, Gore Red and then added Devlan Mud to the recesses.










I've also started to 'make' a Mycetic Spore Pod.
Okay, not make.  I'm simply re-painting one of the toy Plasma Hatcher pods;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mega-Plasma-Hatchers-Monster-Hatcher/dp/B002U0IV3G

 

Obviously this is just the first coat.

And as a distraction I'll be playing my Necrons this week.  So I made up a few more Warriors.  I'm really liking the two-tone boltgun/bronze colour scheme I've gone with.

That's all for now.

Warhammer 40K - a new army

After watching the video blog from Dave @ miniwargaming I've decided to start my own blog to record my own Warhammer 40K life.  Can't say I'll keep this updated, but I'll try.

I already have a solid Ork army as well as a few Necrons, Space Marines and Space Wolves.  But it's time to start a new army.

TYRANIDS

Yes, I know, Ork player writing a Tyranid Blog.  I'll come back to the Orks.

So, my Tyranid list is going to start with;

Hive Tyrant
Zoanthrope
Trygon
Battleforce
Genestealers
Termagants

First model is a Finecast Hive Tyrant

I have to say that the Finecast surprised me.  It's easy to work with and glues very easily.

I figured I'd paint up my Termagants first as a sort of paint test.  As you can see I'm going for a Hive Fleet Behemoth look.

My 9 steps to painting Hive Fleet Behemoth;

1. Assemble, glue some gravel to base, undercoat.
2. Base coat the body with Mechrite Red.
3. Paint body with Gore Red, teeth with bone white.
4. Wash recesses with Devlan mud.
5. Wash body with Baal Red.
6. Paint carapace plates with Chaos Black.
7. Feather carapace with a medium blue.
8. Feather carapace with Ice Blue.
9. Finish base with some flock.