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Those are perfect!

Time to get out my NG and look for some cool color combo's

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Jungle bases? - http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Micro-Art-Studio-Jungle-Large-Round-Bases.jpg

Those are some cool bases. Good find.

Oh my god those are amazing.

15 minute slots? I'd never get anything done in that time

Those bases are sweet, they'd be perfect for those nids.

I will totally be getting those bases in the future, they are freaking gorgeous.

I finished the first 9 (I left one out of the shots D nids for my personal army, this is the basic standard for the troops, hq/specials will have much higher standard.

It was my first time doing bases that weren’t just painted sand with a bit of flock and I really wanted them to be quite green and overgrown looking, so I used static grass trimmed to different lengths when dry, rubber flock as moss, and big Army Painter jungle tufts. Lovely and green. I want to get some little twig bits and add them on too, bits of root etc. Some little stones too





They are super hard to shoot as their contrasts are so crazy, but I think the idea is getting across.

I also finished up Nazdreg





He has so many tiny details it is kinda ridiculous. I was worried for a while that he was going to end up too busy looking, but the last few focus points really helped out. I kept him very cartoony but with a lot of weathering detail to match the rest of the orks Just needs some varnish and a gloss coat on his eyepiece now.

Gits, please let me know if there is anything you would like changed. Thanks!

The nid scheme is very cool. What else you got to paint up for your own nid army?

And indeed, orks have a lot of neato tiny details. I like him! His gesture indicates that he plans on standing there while everyone else charges forward. What a bum.

I love the watermelon nids. A whole army of them would be quite striking on the table.

Cracking nids, and da boss is tremendous. My only boggle is the osl on the coil looks a little off - the blue over the yellow looks too green, maybe? Just a thought.

Junglist massive get ready! Junglist massive eat them all!!

The gloss on their carapaces did the trick nicely

Nazdreg looks great, dat's proppa orkses dat is! Love the radioactive ammo

Lt. Coldfire wrote:The nid scheme is very cool. What else you got to paint up for your own nid army?
And indeed, orks have a lot of neato tiny details. I like him! His gesture indicates that he plans on standing there while everyone else charges forward. What a bum.

Or he is about to catch a football one of his boys just threw, who knows!

My Nids so far are 20 genestealers, 20 gaunts, loads of rippers, a carnifex, and lots of spore thingies. I need to get some warriors or something else to balance it out, not decided yet Will also have some goblin spider riders arriving soon, for my spider gobbo army which is also on the way. I don't play competitively so as long as an army looks nice and is fun, I'll play a basic version of it hehehe.

Eldarain wrote:I love the watermelon nids. A whole army of them would be quite striking on the table.

They will melt eyessssssssss.

inmygravenimage wrote:Cracking nids, and da boss is tremendous. My only boggle is the osl on the coil looks a little off - the blue over the yellow looks too green, maybe? Just a thought.

AHHHHHHHHHHJASGHDhasdjjsha, thank you, I totally forgot, I wanted to run a blue wash over it to help that out and instead got all excited and took shots! Will get on it. Also noticed a little metal on his face that I need to fix up.

Nice Nids Ifalna.

How do you keep the teeth so clean and distinct?
Is it just a matter of being careful and doing one at a time with a tiny brush and not slapping on white and hoping to miss the black bits?
I'm just being lazy aren't I?

Orksess looks nicess too, my precious.

I often browse your blog to catch up with everything you do when i've got time as it grows so darn fast! but honestly your Nids are so well done and pleasing to the eye I have re-subscribed so I don't miss ANY of them coming to fruition, when the big boys hit the table I'm going to be a very happy Nerd ;-) I'm especially looking forward to a chameleon themed Lictor, would be AMAZING! and even if you don't plan on doing one, i'll have to get you to do one for me lol!

Nazdreg looks great Iffy. Love the glowing bullets, never would have thought of that. E's a right and proppa Bad Moon boss. Skin is wonderfully vibrant.. he's going to look just great with the other meganobs you painted for me!

You nids look fantastic by-the-way. The gloss on the carapace really makes them jump. My recommendation is not to get warriors... they're a bad use of points (or so the nid common wisdom goes).

Love the finished Nazdreg. Those blue bullets are oddly evil looking.

And my god....


Those nids a beafriggingutiful. That glossy carapace.



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Also you're a mad woman if you dont base these nids on those mircoart jungle bases.

I'm seriously considering the jungle bases haha, these will do for now, but I could well end up buying some in the future.

I'm going to get some little brown roots from the garden to add to them to represent little logs, and maaaaybe some flower effects, not sure. The more variety (within reason) on the bases, the better they will look.

I laughed when you said on the bigger bugs youd do better detail then the smaller ones. I mean for realz?! How can you pull that level of detail off on a blob of little bugs, and STILL have left some tricks in the bag?

Oh Ifalna out of interest, what gloss do you use?

These Nids have got a real 'classic' 40K look to them - I remember them being this kind of colour when I first got into 2nd ed. Beautiful work. Looking forward to seeing what's next.

KingCracker wrote:I laughed when you said on the bigger bugs youd do better detail then the smaller ones. I mean for realz?! How can you pull that level of detail off on a blob of little bugs, and STILL have left some tricks in the bag?

Oh man I have so many tricks I could make a show.

Big ones will have faded spotting, maybe some stripes, neon markings, oh god theres so much possibility I need to go lie down send help oh no.

Snrub wrote:Oh Ifalna out of interest, what gloss do you use?

It's an old pot of liquid 'Ard coat that came in my giant citadel set many many years ago, it is great stuff. Any high gloss varnish would work wonders. I use gloss all the time, in mouths, on lenses, on eyes etc, it's a super quick and very nice extra little touch to any mini, and we all know it's the little touches that make the model

htj wrote:These Nids have got a real 'classic' 40K look to them - I remember them being this kind of colour when I first got into 2nd ed. Beautiful work. Looking forward to seeing what's next.

OH GOD, YOU GOT IT!! YES!!

That was totally part of the inspiration, I remember when nids all stood upright with 4 curvy talons and were all terrible yellows and oranges, oh god they were horrific/fantastic.

Hurray, I win a Black Books gif!

Glad to see I wasn't off on that, then. Can't wait to see more of these retro monsters.

I have that model!!

"Screamer Killer" as I recall.

It is, classic 'nids I still have a partially assembled one in it's box (polystyrene and everything - not just thin cardboard ) that I was attempting to make into a GD entry back in the 80's - when I was still deluded enough to enter

Oh you guys are so lucky, I bet those things are worth a lot nowadays!

Bah, worth-smurf. At some time or another it'll get chopped up for bits or something, and then it's not worth much at all

Nooo, if you ever do get around to thinking it's time to scrap him, drop me a PM first. I would love one of those guys, they are hilarious and awesome

Imagine a totally up to date tiny nid force with him in it? Would be hilarious! I enjoy terrible old school things far too much, like the Triskellion I traded €10 worth of rares for -



Worth it.

It's not scrapping It's recycling

Loving those nids Iffy, I'm currently rescuing some nids from ebay to make a quick gaming army. The colours are so vibrant, much shinier than my offerings. Looking forward to the carnifex.

Those nids are really something, and yes those jungle bases from page 113 are super-wicked-cool. These items of awesome should be cmbined!

D

 Ifalna wrote:
Oh you guys are so lucky, I bet those things are worth a lot nowadays!

Just took a quick gander on eBay.co.uk (screamer killer as search terms) there's one at £0.99 on auction with three days to go, while the Buy It Now versions are £20-30.

Oh I missed a load of replies!

Dr H wrote:Nice Nids Ifalna.
How do you keep the teeth so clean and distinct?
Is it just a matter of being careful and doing one at a time with a tiny brush and not slapping on white and hoping to miss the black bits?
I'm just being lazy aren't I?

These guys have pretty simple teeth, the closed mouths have a drybrush of bleached bone, open mounts have the teeth picked out, then I give them a heavy wash of devlin mud. I pick them out individually then with bleached bone, and once again with a tiny bit of white. It's pretty quick really, I think at this point I've just trained my hands to be able to do tiny highlights fast, which is invaluable!

nerdfest09 wrote:I often browse your blog to catch up with everything you do when i've got time as it grows so darn fast! but honestly your Nids are so well done and pleasing to the eye I have re-subscribed so I don't miss ANY of them coming to fruition, when the big boys hit the table I'm going to be a very happy Nerd ;-) I'm especially looking forward to a chameleon themed Lictor, would be AMAZING! and even if you don't plan on doing one, i'll have to get you to do one for me lol!

chameleon themed Lictor

chameleon themed Lictor

Oh.. this is so happening now. Oh yes.

Gitsplitta wrote:Nazdreg looks great Iffy. Love the glowing bullets, never would have thought of that. E's a right and proppa Bad Moon boss. Skin is wonderfully vibrant.. he's going to look just great with the other meganobs you painted for me!

You nids look fantastic by-the-way. The gloss on the carapace really makes them jump. My recommendation is not to get warriors... they're a bad use of points (or so the nid common wisdom goes).

The glowy bullets just kind of happened, his gun was so ridiculous I figured there is no way it shot regular shots, and I thought of the glowy rounds Hellboy used in the first movie and just went with it

Shame about the warriors then, what would you recommend? It's been so so long since I played. I just need a small army for sub 1k point games

Dysartes wrote:
Just took a quick gander on eBay.co.uk (screamer killer as search terms) there's one at £0.99 on auction with three days to go, while the Buy It Now versions are £20-30.

Wahey, I'll go check that out, that could end really nicely