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Hello Dakka!

My name's Bailey and I'm an amateur hobbyist. I have an extensive Tyranid army (7000 points ish), and a large chaos force (8000 points ish). I'm quite into the warhamer hobby. I have collected for around 7 years, and have accumulated a lot. This year I have started to get rid of a good amount of armies I've started but never play and getting rid of projects I don't want to spend any more time on. I am in highschool, so I am no painting or modelling god, but I do the best I can on projects.

I have recently finished a Lord of Change, and started repainting my whole Tyranid force Hive Fleet Leviathan. I'm doing this because I had painted the army some years ago, and didn't like the look. Although I am busy with my studies, I try to get work done on my armies as much as I can.

Right now I am trying to find a good skin tone and look for the bugs, in as less steps as possible. I have around 200 models in the army and want to get it done in as less time as possible, but to also look pretty good. My goal is to have the army done by the end of August.

My Tyranid army includes

1 Flyrant with lash/bonesword
1 Tyrant with Heavy Venom Cannon
1 Tyrant with Miasma Cannon
1 Swarmlord
3 Tyrant Guard

Over 30 Tyranid Warriors (mostly deathspitters, some rending claws, some barbed stranglers and venom cannons)
around 65 hormagaunts
around 80 Termagaunts
around 90 Genestealers
2 Broodlords
1 venomthrope
8 Hive guard
4 Zoanthropes
8 Carnifexes
2 Trygons
1 Tervigon/Tyrannofex (magnetized)
1 Barbed Hierodule
10 Gargoyles

So, right now my process looks kinda like this:
1. Primer of bleached bone
2. Drybrush of all skin areas 1 to 1 mix of skull white bleached bone
3. Wash of levithan purple 1 to 2 mix paint to water
4. highlight of all skin ares (except veins and joints) 1 to 2 mix bleached bone to white
5. druchi violet 1 to 4 mix of whole skin, rubbing off excess with thumb (This step gives a good last touch to the skin tone I find)
6. All veins and joints highlighted 1 to 1 mix carroburg crimson to water

With a few test models done, this was the one that had the best skin tone effect. Here's what that one looks like, and it took me around 15 minutes (excluding washes to dry)

[url]http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/612312-Leviathan%20WIP.html

If these pictures don't work please let me know, and teach me how to do it. I'm very new to this site




The guns I tried out red, but decided to keep them the same colour as the skin.

The carapace is not done by the way, just trying to get a good skin tone colour.

Hello! Thanks for visiting my blog! I want to post some of my chaos models that I feel very proud of. My Abaddon looks a little rough... but I painted that guy 5 years ago! I don't want to repaint him Most of the models aren't based yet if you've noticed, but that is when I have a lot more of my army done. I have a lot of WIPs, and patience is all I need to get through them (and free time).

My Chaos army includes the following:

HQ:
Abaddon
Lucius
Ahriman
Kharn
Huron Blackheart
Fabius Bile
Typhus (WIP)
Lord of Change
Terminator Lord with Power Sword Combi Weapon (Nurgle)
Terminator lord with Balck Mace (Nurgle)
Nurgle Sorcerer
Undivided Sorcerer
Possessed Lord (Old Metal Model)

Troops:

20 Khorne Berserkers (need repairs)
10 Plague Marines (Forge World conversion set)
10 Thousand Sons
10 Tzeentch Cultists (Dark Vengeance)
10 Khorne Cultists (Dark Vengeance)
6 Chosen (Dark Vengeance)
12 Noise Marines
40 Chaos Space Marines (just counting bolters)
4 flamers
4 meltas
4 plasmas
4 autocannons
8 heavy bolters (a havoc squad with 12 HB shots a turn is really fun)
4 Rhinos
10 Spawn (yes, 10 spawn)
40 Plague Zombies/Nurgle Cultists/Renegades (They work for a lot of things)

Elites:

5 Nurgle Terminators (not built)
5 Tzeentch Terminators (WIP)
10 Red Corsair Terminators (To be built)
10 Khorne Possessed
1 Preadator
2 Helbrutes

Heavy Support / Fast Attack:

8 Red Corsair Bikes

5 Land Raiders (1 Iron Warriors, 1 Tzeentch, 1 Khorne, 2 Nurgle)
1 Nurgle Defiler (Converted to Plague Hulk)
1 Undivided Defiler
2 Emperor's Children Vindicators (Fear my pink tank of doom)
4 Obliterators
1 Iron Warriors Baneblade
1 Iron Warriors Stormlord

About 1/3 of the army is painted. But I have paused to clean up my warhammer space, and also get rid of some other stuff.

And also, the base-coating of the Bugs has started!!

Anyway, enjoy!

That's a hell of a collection! Particularly liking what you've done with you Lord of Change.
Looking forward to more. You have plenty of painting to do!

There will be a lot of editing to the posts, as things get completed and pictures get added! Just to clarify.

Right now I'm working on some plague zombies. I'll post pictures once I complete a few more!!

Ok so, some zombies are complete! I haven't completely figured out how the pictures work on Dakka Dakka yet, so the next few posts will be just picture dumps. So for these guys, I started out with the zombie Comissar, then my imagination shifted to a more plague Storm-Trooper feel. I think these guys are looking really great so far! Taken a lot of time though, each one is converted in some way... Every model still needs a little more detail, some grenades, ammo packs, etc.

Anyway, without further ado, picture dump!

Got a few more done last night too, here's the zombie commisar, and a few others. They're still a WIP, but just a little more detail then I can start painting. Hope you enjoy!

Update here! So my friend gave me shadowsword a few weeks ago, (early Christmas), and had modeled in in a plague hulk sort of fashion. Unfortunately it was in rough shape and didn't fit with the theme of my army. So I gutted it, ripped it apart and went for an Iron Warriors feel. I love the look of their tanks, and wanted it to match my Baneblade

Here it is so far!