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My FLGS has started a "Tale of Many Gamers" campaign, and I gleefully joined in. I have been anticipating the tyranid release, and I'll be painting nids.

We just kicked off this weekend, and I headed over to Gitsmack's house to do some painting. Earlier this month I had been glueing genestealers and a lictor together to be ready. I've got 2 months to paint 500 points. I usually paint much faster than that, but I'm going to try and challenge myself by upping the quality of my painting.

Anyway... here are some various random pics to show to you all.



I really should have taken some pics prior to priming, but this guy won't really be exciting until he is painted anyway. The dead space marine is based separately just for painting purposes, he'll be at the feet of the lictor who just tore his head and right arm off. This pic does the conversion very little justice, and I need to get some more genestealers painted before I can reward myself with painting this centerpiece.



This was a super easy but fun conversion for a stealer. If I've learned anyting from going to tournaments, its that conversion work is at least as important as painting (and in the case of some judges, more important than painting). So if you are going for an award winning army, you'll have to have little touches on your entire army, from the lowliest grunt to the centerpiece, in addition to painting very well.




Some decorative basing.





And here is my first finished model. I didn't really see the thickness of those lines on his back ridges (I'll be cleaning that up tonight). I like that his arm situaton and his colors put images of spider-man into my head.

If you are wondering, I really want to smash everyone over the head with these colors. Nids are such an overpopulated tourney army, it is very difficult to distinguish yourself from the crowd. Well, if i have some electric red tones and hawk turqouise, I might be able to get you to stop walking, and if you lean in you'll see all of the dead 1st co. ultramarines that'll be scattered all over their bases.

Ok, so I'm on a tight painting schedule, so this will be updated far more regularly than my Vostroyan plog.

Thanks for stopping by, hopefully I'll have a group shot of the first 12 stealers in a couple weeks.

We are starting a tale of many gamers at my store as well. I am trying to do the same with my new tau too. Good luck with your 'nids, i will peek in and keep an eye on your progress as it comes along.

I look forward to seeing how they turn out.

Looking forward to seeing more pics as you get them painted. Keep up the excellent work.

Damn you, Shep. I am going to have to up my Crimson Fist ante - oh, and Tekk_45, where is your plog?

Some great reposing on the stealers.

Somnicide wrote:Damn you, Shep. I am going to have to up my Crimson Fist ante - oh, and Tekk_45, where is your plog?

i need a new camera first, hopefully i will have one started soon though. i am going to be doing up some tau for a tale of many gamers at my flgs, and i hope to post pics of all my templars on my user page (eventually). Thanks for asking though! By the way, thanks for posting those pictures of the tournament up, i have been showing them off to all the guys at my flgs.

I like the reposed 'stealers.
And I agree: creative conversions take an army to the next level. (Metagaming the painting! I love it. ;p)

Great posing. My color blindness is probably not interpreting the red correctly, looks more orange to me.

I'm curious - why the choice of the older lictor legs on the lictor? Other than that though, I like the colour scheme you've gone for. I don't know why but I'm drawn to the stealers head...
...better not be tryin' to steal my genes...

I think that the lictor is a special release model more than a kitbash.

This picture... some reason reminds me of Team Fortress Engineer.

Gene stealer engineer yay

Enginestealer?

Anyway, great to see you picking up something new. I just recently picked up 'nids myself (Space hulk made me do it) so it is interesting to see how other people are painting theirs.

Looking good.

I need to start on my Pre-Heresy Thousand Sons.

Well, the first round has passed me by... I didn't get the first 500 done. It turns out it is very frustrating to have chosen an army that is just about to get a codex, but information isn't quite available yet. I tried desperately to choose a 500 point army to paint, using the rules for combat patrol, that wouldn't be trashed when a new codex came out.

What I came up with was about 21 genestealers with scuttlers and flesh hooks, and a lictor. It was a terrible list, I lost my game I played with it, but I think I managed to only paint models i will still want to use come january 16th.

The confines of the combat patrol and not being excited at all about the models I was painting did me in... I got 11 genestealers and the lictor finished... here they are.






Our next step is to add 250 points in a month, and will now be playing under the standard missions rules. I know quite a bit more about the new tyranid book now, but the next phase will still be played without the new codex.

This gives me the opportunity to ditch the other 10 genestealers from the list, and add more than 250 points worth of goodies.

Here is my 750...

broodlord with flesh hooks + 5x genestealer retinue with flesh hooks

lictor

6x genestealers with scuttlers and flesh hooks

16x hormagaunts with toxin sacs

3x zoanthropes with warp blast and synapse

Although this list is equally terrible... the broodlord and genestealers will become a pretty good troop choice, and the hormagaunt unit with four more added in a spore pod will be an excellent troop as well. The zoanthropes look to be one of the better support units in the codex. The lictor I had high hopes for. Still looks pretty underpowered, but that wasn't too much time sacrificed to get him done. I'm sure there will be some missions where I'd want him over hive guard and zoanthropes.

Here is what I need to paint over the next three weeks.





The broodlord is pretty stock, I just churched up his base a little bit, and I am hoping that scything talons are an inexpensive upgrade for him.

I had fun taking two of the zoanthropes off of their perch, and pinning them into different spots on the base. The pipes all line up if you pose the group right, and I'll be sculpting some sludge onto the one exposed end.

That hormagaunt pic is currently competing for worst picture I have ever taken. I used a lot of the warhammer basing kit to add some variety. Almost all of the darting poses were cut and then re pinned at a more upward angle. This gives the unit some more height variation, and saves me the head ache of the tippy horma syndrome.

So with a whole week off from work almost upon me, and the vigor that getting a new codex will provide me, I think I will likely catch back up to the pack. And after the 16th I'd expect the power level of my lists to jack up considerably.

Thanks for stopping by again.... see you in 3 weeks

The gribblage is strong with this one. Keep up the work. Like the posing of the genestealer. Nice seeing some classic nid color scheme in use.

Nice, I bet you can't wait for the new Battleforce.

That Lictor is truly a work of art.

Owain wrote:That Lictor is truly a work of art.

Seconded. I really like the blood splatter where the Marine's head used to be. The genestealer broods are also looking unique, but coherent. Overall I really dig this project.

Lovin' the Lictor

Could you post a tutorial on how you painted your Genestealers? My little brother is collecting Hive Fleet Behemoth, and for christmas, he got some Genestealers. He wants me to paint a few of them so he knows how they should look.

Nice neckstump!

While it isn't quite the lictor-killer/menace idea, I had somthing simmilar for a mission marker.

Basically, the models got a nids arm/bladethingie in his chest, with various melta/flamer burns through him.

He also has about 20-30 bullet holes, but he's still moving!

Pics to come.

Looks cool man, as I especially like the lictor with the claws matching the paint scheme under them. Cool stuff all around.

Nice looking stuff Shep - I wonder if at some point my daemons will be facing the horde.

I was reading Goatboy's preview of Tyranid HQ choices from the new codex earlier...any thoughts yet on what you might be choosing based on the previews?

I hate you. Your base dressing looks better than my character models.

Cool looking nids mate! Keep it going!

//Avach

Liking this.....im quite aroused

BP, let's remember this is a family friendly forum. We don't need to here about that kind of excitement

Joking aside, the lictor is just plain awesome. I want to do this now, but I don't want to copy you so I wont.

As stated by about everyone else, I love the lictor. How did you do the blood? I like how it looks so realistic.

Pure sexiness. Could you give us a couple more pics of the Lictor pl0x?