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Not too sure, but probably against Chaos.

Cool. Make sure you take some pics! Good luck!

EDC

Thanks EDC, I will take a few photos to throw up on here for sure, probably wont be a full on battle report, but some photos nonetheless.

Hi team,

First things first I have almost finished the neurothrope and two venomthropes, they just need their matte varnish on the carapace and the red base painted in. I did a bit of lightning effect on the neurothrope spire, and it came out... ok. Not as good a swarmlord blades, and I think that is because of the segmented nature of the spire.

Here is an average photo, the finished product photos will be back to normal



I also got the army out onto the table for the first time since 4th edition today. Had an awesome time and it definitely gave me the bug to play more games! Had a 1000pt eternal war game first up to ease me back into it, and then we had a crack at a maelstrom game. We only got to turn three of the maelstrom game due to time constraints but I really like that game type, achieving objectives and the ever changing nature of the battle really appealed to me and I really enjoyed the time I got. So will definitely be playing a lot more games this year and really looking forward to it.
The army performed well, I haven't lost that much memory from 4th and the tervigon was my MVP, she spawned close to 60 termagants, denied the witch several times against a Thousand Sons army and absorbed a bunch of flak and took down the predator tank The rest of the army did their roles pretty well too.

Here is a couple of photos:

Good worksss Mad xxx

Awesome pics. Looks and sounds like you had a great time. I also really like the Maelstrom mission, they can be so dynamic and exciting.

EDC

Ratius wrote:Good worksss Mad xxx

Thanks Hissy, although Thousand Sons Marines don't taste very nice... all dry and dusty, not like the lovely cultists.

evildrcheese wrote:Awesome pics. Looks and sounds like you had a great time. I also really like the Maelstrom mission, they can be so dynamic and exciting.

It was a nice table to play one, its a Realm of battle board that the owner is painting up, added to the fun for sure. We only got three turns in with the maelstrom game, but the club I played at generally don't do eternal war missions, so I can look forward to more maelstrom in the future.

Thanks Hissy, although Thousand Sons Marines don't taste very nice... all dry and dusty, not like the lovely cultists.

Yuk! But good work eating the ressst of the tasssty guys. Hissys Hive proud of your Galactic rampage.

Hi all!

Well lets start this weeks update with... hive fleet has grown! Went into one of the hobby stores and found they had the "start collecting" sets in stock, so to reward myself for being a good boy last year and not buying any new stuff for the hive fleet and painted a whole heap I brought one of the kits... so I now have a hive tyrant, 3 warriors and 10 gargoyles added to the build pile. I am going to magnetise the hive tyrant so I can use it in different ways as needed, also looking at making a tyranid prime with the warriors parts. Buying this brings my total collection up to 3000 points I think, so that is a bit of a milestone.

Next up the Neurothrope and the two venomthropes have been completed. The lightning effect went a bit skew and I don't think a lot of what I did works as lightning and I think that is because of the segmented nature of the bit I was trying to do, but it can stay like that until I come back to do fix ups sometime in the future. Anyway, here are some pictures:






And lastly in this update, I have a 1850 game booked for this coming Sunday against an IG tourney list that the guy is trialing, so I said I'd give him a game... so I made a list, but it included a unit that I hadn't built yet... so I spent today building this:



I must say, I wasn't hugely convinced it was a cool looking model until I built it... in real life this thing is pretty choice! I am thinking I will magnetise the side tentacles (not pictured) to make it easier to transport and while I am doing that I might as well do the weapons as well. I am also thinking one day I will get a second one, and model it as if it has just hit the ground with open carapace shell etc... but I am getting ahead of myself, I still need to liquid green stuff the join lines etc on this one

Thanks for checking in!

That thing is monstrous! I like the thropes, the purple on the neuro is on point imo so don't beat your self up over it.

Good luck with the 1850 game, should be a valuable learning experience, beware the cheap as chips mounted mortars, they will shred your gribblies.

Thanks Knightley, perhaps I am being a little harsh on myself with the Neurothrope.

I will be running a Living Artillery Node in the army on sunday, which has a brood of biovores, I figure they will be rather effective against guardsmen and hidden weapons. But I am really looking forward to the game and I'm sure I'll learn a lot!

I have continued work on the Tyrannocyte and magnetised the weapons and debating whether I bother attaching the side tentacles, or whether I leave it as is and use those side ones for a mucolid with some green stuff. Also makes transporting it easier.

Really like the Venonthropes all the tenticles really works with your scheme.

EDC

They look great! Love the work on the tentacles like EDC said

Thanks EDC and MA!

The tentacles took a long time and slowed me down somewhat, but given they are the focal point of the models I wanted to get them looking nice. Glad I have succeeded and not the only one that likes the green colouring.

Hi all,

Been a modelling week for me this week, did zero painting.

The Tyrannocyte is built, weapons magnetised and the join lines etc have been hit with liquid green stuff. So this week I'm going to do a bit of work on a bit more of an interesting base and then get it primed up. No progress photo of this unless you look in the game photos below

The other modelling I've been doing this week is helping my youngest brother build a forge world Tau Supremacy suit, this thing is huge! While I helped him with that I also started modelling my other brothers 10 man CSM squad, and some gargoyles for myself.

Where it is up to currently:



We are going to magnetise all the weapons, for ease of transport if nothing else.

Gargoyles, which are actually really easy to construct and I think they look awesome... my five year old daughter decided they were Pterodactyls, which I thought was excellent.


If I ever come up against the supremacy suit, I'm going to stuff Gargoyles down the barrels

Today I went out to one of the clubs in Auckland and had a 1850 game against Imperial Guard player who was testing a tournament list.

Game was brutal, fun and full of learning and experience! IG shot out to an early lead, but I managed to reign it back in and was actually 9-8 up at end of 5th turn, we rolled and game went on, it ended at sixth turn with 11-11 draw in the end, however looking at this end of game picture I'm glad it didn't go to a turn 7!!

i rolled rubbish psychic powers so wasn't able to capitalise on the fact IG had no pysker presence at all, and I forgot my hive tyrant had electroshock grubs which would have made a dent in the tanks.



A zoanthrope, tyrannocyte, and a couple of troops versus six tanks, and a vendetta that you can't see in photo.

Here is a few other photos of the game:




Oh and my use of biovores went well... they pinned a unit so my stealers could get into combat with the veteran squad and take them off the table, it was 2 stealers versus 8 veterans... genestealers are awesome


My next scheduled game is against Knightley, and I am very much looking forward to that, and perhaps we can do a battle report for that game

This week I'll keep helping my brothers and keep modelling my stuff, then back to painting table I go.

Thanks for checking in!

Hi DakkaDakka,

Been a pretty productive week for myself and the hive fleet.

Firstly I have added some bits and pieces to the base of the tyrannocyte and it is now primed and ready for painting... I'm still working out how I am going to tackle it because it is going to take a bit of paint!



And seeing as though I completed a bunch of mid sized models most recently (Venomthropes and Neurothrope) it is time for me to get on with a MC, so I got the exocrine out onto the painting table and got a good chunk done:




Seeing as though this gunbeast has a bio plasmic cannon and is really the only thing in the tyranid arsenal like it I thought I'd do something a bit different on this model and do a glowing plasma effect. Personally I think it has come up pretty nice, but if anyone has an idea that might improve it, I'm all ears The trickiest decision was what colour to go with, and I was debating between purple because I've got that on other "special features", blue because it is plasma, or green because my hive fleet ranged weapons are green. So I went with green as you can see, and started the plasma effect in the ribbing of the cannon near the back and worked it up.

I have to finish up some higlights on the claws and a bit more work on carapace before varnishes and basing, so this should be finished in time for next weeks update

Nice piics from the battle. Nids can struggle against mechanised lists, but it looks like you had a blast.

Speaking of blasts, the glowing plasma effect looks wicked.

EDC

Thanks EDC. Struggled even more in this game because I forgot I had elctroshock grubs on the tyrant (haywire attack) and didn't click to the zoanthrope brood rule which means I should have been shooting two warp lances at his tanks instead of one.

Still had a great time though!

Glad to hear the plasma effect has the desired effect, can never be too sure I suppose

Wow that excocrine looks fantastic! Stunning work!

The carapace paint job alone is stunning. The blues on the blades are also incredibly well done.

Love the glowing green. Would you care to share how you accomplished it?

Thanks for the Kudos MA, always good to hear positive feedback

So the way I did the plasma effect was based of the Eonsofbattle youtube channel method and altered to suit the Exocrine cannon.

My steps:
- Basecoat of dark green
- Layer of 50/50 dark green and sick green
- Some highlights with goblin green
- Washed with GW Biel-tan green shade
- Drybrush of 50/50 goblin green and white staying a bit more central so the darker colours are still there
- Drybrush of pure white trying to keep as central as possible on all the bits to show the intense part of the "glow"

I found it pretty easy and effective method.

The glow looks like the stuff from star ship troopers, ace!

Well, considering that was one of the inspirations for the hive fleet carapace, and one of the reasons I was considering blue plasma.... your comment makes me very happy to hear! Thanks Knightley

Evening all!

Hope everyone had a good week... mine wasn't bad

Finished up the Exocrine, so here I am to show it off... really happy with how it turned out.





And a close up of the bio plasmic cannon.... because I can


Next on the painting table is a brood of Gargoyles, and a game with Knightley coming up... can't wait!

Thanks for stopping by.

Digging the little purple eyes on the barrel, that's a nice touch

Thanks,

I saw something similar in the codex on the "official" paint scheme with yellow eyes so thought I'd do similar on mine... came up quite nice I thought

Exocrine looks great. What's next on the agenda?

EDC

Thanks EDC,

Next up on the paint table is a brood of 10 Gargoyles

Nice. I really don't see enough Gargoyles on the table top, good to see you representing.

EDC

Sadly we have a bit of distance between us EDC so you'll have to settle for seeing them show up in my future battle reports (once painted of course)

Great worksss Mad. And thanksss for your support during illnesss.

PS beat up Tau thingy for ussss.