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I started Tyranids when the new codex came out after playing them with the older codex and selling them a year ago. I am still sorting my list out, wargear wise, but I have 2,600 points of bleached bone and scab red to hack through!

1 x Hive Tyrant done

1 x Hive Tyrant done

2 x Hive Guard done

2 x Hive Guard done

4 x Zoanthropes done

20 x Hormagaunts

20 x Hormagaunts

5 x Warriors done

30 x Termagants

20 x Gargoyles SOLD!

5 x Ravenors done

5 x Ravenors done

1 x Carnifex done

1 x Carnifex

1 x Carnifex

1 x Trygon done

1 x Trygon done

1 x Trygon Prime done

Here's the first model I painted, a hive tyrant:



Doesn't look like a 2k army does it?



Here's some pictures of my Nids in action:

Some trygons I recently finished. Sorry about the crappy pic, I recently brought a Iphone and it's great at everything else except taking pictures!



A bucket of termagants I assembled giving me enough gants for when spawned instead of proxying using eldar!!





I like this pic as it shows the colour scheme. I've always wanted some kind of red army and always liked the kraken scheme.

Good colouring

Thanks! Probably not the best pictures I know to make things out.

Here's some Zoanthropes I've painted recently and also a Carnifex I built the other night:









Also I've been working on my Iron Warriors army for a upcoming tournament, here's what I've done:

nice looking, only one little thing bothers me about your iron warriors though... they need hammers instead of swords

That's a very good point. I'll see if I can convert them or something.

I really like the Iron Warriors Balrog, it looks really nice.

Thanks buddy

Very very minor progress as I've been working on my Iron Warriors.

personally, i love the kraken scheme you did onto your tyranids, though i can make a suggestion, i would highlight the sharp edges of the carapace with a slightly brighter shade of red. The iron warriors are fantastic, and will the balrog count as a bloodthirster?

keep it up!

I'll take into account what you said though I'm not into highlights if I'm honest. I also need to get better pictures up with my better half's digital camera.

Thanks, I'll get better pics up of those too. The balrog is just a greater daemon btw.

Great looking Tyranids, the Kraken scheme looks great.

On a side note I'm a little perplexed by your movie collection

Ah - we've got a external hard drive so we're ripping all our DVDs onto that drive. We've got a total of 450+ movies. Those ones there I "acquired" via other means so we couldn't sell them and haven't got round to ripping them, yet. As for those titles not all of mine, though the princess and me is lol/

Oh some Guard for my Hive:



I've also painted 3 Raveners at the weekend, pictures coming tomorrow. I started the Trygon Prime also. I've also made some new purchases, Genestealers and Hormagaunts as I've slightly changed my list

I like

Great! I did kraken for my fleet too. I would gie the carapaces a liberal wash of devlan mud on the plates tho.

When did they start making plastic gargoyles for nids?

and nice work on the models btw.

Munch Munch! wrote:Great! I did kraken for my fleet too. I would gie the carapaces a liberal wash of devlan mud on the plates tho.

The plates are washed gryphonne sepia like the rest of the model, the plates are red gore.

fox-light713 wrote:When did they start making plastic gargoyles for nids?

and nice work on the models btw.

Since they release the new codex so 6 months ago.

Oh, here's a few raveners I painted.

Not much of a update but I've undercoated 4 x Hive Guard and all other models. I've also built 40 Hormgaunts and 5 x Warriors. I'll get some pics up soon but here's the Hive Guard pics because you know the rule; no pics it didn't happen! lol.

A small update. I've started the Hive Guard last night but didn't finish them so I did to do that tonight. Waiting on some rending claws for my warriors too so I can finish those off and then I can under coat those along with all the hormgaunts. Once the Hive Guard are done I'll jump onto the Termagants which are undercoated already, though I'm tempted to do a bit of work on a Imperial Fists Land Speeder!

Here's a poor WIP shot of the Guard:

Had a busy weekend and the swarm has come along well. I took some pictures of my Hive Guard, undercoated a unit of Hormagaunts but forgot about another! I gave a crusher 'Fex a coat of bleached bone but it's still WIP and I've got 3 Raveners on the table ready to be painted.

Nice army. The Kraken color scheme is my favorite of the main 3. Planning on making any conversions for the Tervigon or Tyrannofex models?

Thanks. No I'm not using them. I did use Tervigons which I was just going to use 'Fexes for but I used them for about 3 months and couldn't get on them; so I dropped them. I just fouind spawning gaunt swarms in 7-11 on average isn't that brilliant.

Yeah I was kind of turned off by Tervigons when I realized they stopped spawning on doubles and the fact that the units produced made for easy kill points.

Exactly! I used them in about 8 games and I always had at least one burn out, most times was both of them. Once burnt out they only claim objectives or fight and they're not brilliant and fighting in close combat.

Last time I used them one burnt out first turn the other second turn and the termagants spawned didn't do a lot. Complete waste.

Nothing major just that I undercoated all remaining Tyranid models, this includes Warriors, Genestealers & Hormagaunts. I actually ended up painting Warriors while I was off yesterday and got the unit complete. Over the weekend I got some more Raveners done and a crusher-fex. I'll get more pics soon.

Here's some more awesome :( Iphone pictures.

you seem to be working hard and consistently, and it's prooving dividends. have you considered a really dark colour for the bases to balance the comparatively light way you've painted (which looks good btw)?

The bases aren't painted as such. The bases are just undercoat white and will be based and painted properly once I've finished the entire army

So it begins painting 30 Termagants. To add to that I've got 40 Hormagaunts, yeah what fun! Good news is though once I've hacked through this lot I've got 12-13 Genestealers and the army is then fully painted as I'm off loading the 3 Carnifexes.

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