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So I've decided on my new ary for 40K being tyranids and picked up my first model today, a hive tyrant.

The plan is to do an unboxing of everything I buy and a step by step of the painting. Was talking it over with my flgs and they said we only had one other tyranid player so that made my mind up for me.

For the big bugs, I will magnetize all arms, so I can have any combination, though any tips on were to buy the magnets and how to attach would be very helpfull.

And now to go look into the Tyrant box as its been years since I have done Tyranids and theb it was the old metal Tyrants

So having opened the box and had a good look through it. I an impressed and although missing some weapon options has a lot of promise.

I have thrown up some sprue pictures to start. I especially like the wings. Back when I last did nids, well I had a flying tyrant and I had to make it out of fantasy dragon wings and green stuff which looked ok but still not quite nid like.

Like I said though my gripe with set is the lack all options is slightly disappointing but managable one I start building my kits up.

Also looking for a name for my own hive fleet lol, I'll be starting a similar blog to this soon
Have you come up with a paint scheme for them yet?
Also yes I found my old tryanid models now I'm getting back into painting, and I'll hopefully be able to salvage them, my metal hive tryant is pretty broken, but I think I can repair him. I see that you have the swarmlord variant since I see the wings in there, I really like the look of the flying hive tyrants, really would like to get one. Please show pics once you have him assembled!

Painting each piece as I assemble as I remember the monters being a pain otherwise.

I'm going with a lightis green skin purple chitin, and brown plates weapons etc

Now I started on the main torso and have finished the skin I think might dry brush another layer at some point.

Damn I need to be stricter with myself and stick to my 1 unit paint it assemble it base it rule and then buy a new one, ooops failed on day 2

So last night managed to do some more work nailing down the colour scheme for my hive fleet, and the results for the carapace are as follows:


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Tonight im hoping to have at least the green and brown on the legs and tail done

Looking interesting so far!

So I didn't do as much as I wanted per say but I did manage to do thelower half of the body, barring a few small details. Namely the weapon spikes on the tail. Attached the two sections together and attached them to the base. Also base greened the legs ready for painting. I will upload pictures tomorrow

So these are last nighrs work resultsm, and I think now the work is coming together it looks even better than it did before, though comments n crits would be appreciated


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Though not intentionally I am seeming to improve the speed with which I can paint the green which given its like 70% of the tyranids im happy with that

So this is tonights work and as you can see he's starting to come together now, I'm really pleased with how the colour scheme has come together

so not been able to do much lately due to working night shifts, but i went and obtained my copy of the new codex today, and wow is all i can say really, while my long term nid player friend is really disappointed by the codex as they have nerfed the crap out of tyranid combat (with the exception of the new combat gribbly) and removed access to all brb powers, id rather take the codex powers andways.

The fact that an all monster list is also completely viable is awesome. and i have now got what will be my tournament list going forward, and it will also give me a good chance to get my hands on the 2 new kits (of which i will be building 3 of the 4 variants)

all that is left on the tyrant to do now is the wings, having not had much time to update this or even paint, the keen eyed members of this forum would have noticed he was missing the details on his body, that has been corrected now.

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So i also picked up one of the Haruspex/Exocrine kits today, and wow this beast looks damn good and could challenge the tevrigone in size by the looks of things.

this will be fun and once i finish the tyrant hopefully by tonight i will start on him with an unboxing set of pics etc

Nice work, love the paint scheme.

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Nice work, love the paint scheme.

Thanks i wanted my nids to be really alien looking and think i achieved this.

So finally got more time off work after covering even more night shifts, and finally got to finidh the model of my flyrant, though the base will be waiting till the end of the month as the stuff i want to do with it i need to buy some more bits for, as you can see in the pics i've started making what will be sess pools out of bits of sprue, an idea i got off a you tube video.

I tried to go with an in flight look, which i kind of achieved.

and so with the Flyrant done,I had to decide what to work on next, and decided the best one was the new figure, the Haruspex and so here is the unboxing and partial assembly line.



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uuuuugggggggh so much green on the big dude lol, at least the first 2 of 4 layers is done on the main body and legs now anyways.

leaves about 4 hours work to do on the legs and body for green, the purple takes about 2 hours and there is very little on the big guy atm so will make it nice and quick hopefully, and leave the hooves and claws to do.

Though the biggest problem i have is deciding how to deal with the gaping maw that is his gob, that's a face only ya mumma could love, im thinking red all over with the pink tongue like i did on the tyrants mouth.

any ideas?

So i fdinished my painting for the evening, having finished the Flyrant, i set about starting all the building and painting work of the Haruspex.

The kit itself was really simple to put together, except the mouth, which took me longer than the rest of the model. I definitely recommend dry assembling the mouth firstotherwise it can be a pain.

So I set about the green and decided the head will be done seperately when when I start doing the mouth and kept the whole thing in sub-sections 4 leg limbs main body and the chitin. And went about painting using a Large brush.

I primed the model with Army Painter Grey, then base coated all the green sections Waaagh Flesh. making sure it was all covered.

To this i then went over all but the deepest reccesses with Warboss Green.

And final lick of paint was Skarsnik Green, picking out just about all but long thin recesses, and other small details, and finally washing the whole area with Biel-Tan Green

And here are the results:

Hi guys im back been a while due to family greievances etc but I am back been some very small work on the army got almost everything assembled not.

Will get some updates up as soon as i can. The main work I've managed is, on the mouth piece of the ugly beast this thing is

So I have a month off of work now time to kick some crud out of netflix finish the Incredible Sulk and hopefully a few more projects.

Here is the reult of this evenings work so far


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The whole mouth section is such a ball ache. Its unbelievable. This was why i chose to build it in stages and paint it before final assembley

so picked up some warriors the other day and, after some effort i have managed to get them together pics coming up shortly. and they should be painted in no time.

so heres the warriors and their progress so far

any comments tips or suggestions would be appreciated

I am absolutely hating the harupex project its still sat on my paint station in pieces, I noticed with the access of a pc that my phone was providing very shoddy images so i picked up a new camera for around the £40 pound make today and tried some tester shots out.

already impressed and it has reinvigorated my enthusiasm for this blog. some of the testers to be posted shortly

So a project i started a few days ago is the Harpy, which I have nearly finished already using this for the tester photo's etc

So here is the Harpy in all her glory minus the Spore mines, still need to do something with the base but that is atm undecided as it would be criminal to do nothing

And cnc's appreciated

next stop 2 close combat warrior to go with 3 ranged and a prime.starting to get a good spped system going on this project having completed 3 other warriors and the harpy in seven day, while theat dont sound brilliant, by my time lines thats what most people probably do in 2 days of speed painting from posts ive seen on other forums.