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Seeing as how I've started to many new topics about Tyranids, now that I'm in the starting blocks for my new army I figured it was time to make anothe blog. Like my other blog I'll probably not update to often, but I'm enjoying painting Tyranids, so we'll see. Atm I have 5 Termagants and 3 Warriors, but I plan to buy a Battleforce soon, so that'll change. My army will have lots of Ravenors, Trygons and Mawloc since I love the way they look, and probably a lictor or two since they are to cool to be left out.
Anyway, here's what I have so far:


Also some WIP Warriors:



The thing I'm thinking about atm is if I should keep the brown/bone guns or switch to something that stands out more, either green or red. I would also like to know what you think about the scales, and what I should do with the talons.
Thanks for looking!

I used Shadow Grey for my Nid talons, although my scheme was Red Gore body and Hawk Turquoise carapace.

I really like your colors and I think the gun looks great as the color it is right now.

@bunnygurl, Thanks for the comment about the gun, I'm liking it to at the momen.,Iit's a really simple paintjob of bleched bone + devlan mud, but I agree that it fits.

Update!!
Finished all my current Tyranid models, it's a weird feeling to not have any models to paint for a army, so I'm eagerly waiting for the stuff I've bought of people. At the moment I'm waiting for another 5 Termagants and an OOP Carnifex. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with the Carnifex, was kinda of a impulse buy, got it for 19 USD, but hopefully it's not to big so I can make a Warrior Prime out it.
Pictures of finished warriors:



The swarm as it stands (some bases aint dry yet, but I felt like uploading them anyway):

Carnifex has arrived!





Now the question is, what should I do with him? To me he looks more like a Tyrand/Hive Guard than a Carnifex, Warrior Prime or Tyrant. Atm I'm thinking of adding another "wave" of scale around his shoulders, and to keep him from falling over I'm gonna add a blob of GS under his foot and model it to a ruined CSM. Any other suggestions about his looks would be nice. I'm also unsure about what to arm him with, how do you use a carnifex?

Nice nids. Personally i would do the oop Carnifex as a prime.

Ay, that was my original plan, but compared to my other warriors he's a bit bulky. I always imagined a prime to look like the Swarmlord, only smaller.

He would make for an awesome prime. he would be quite imposing within the unit because of his size in comparison to them, but its would be awesome.
nice nids, nice painting. subbed

Argh! Wasn't ready for this yet xP Have to get to painting so I have something new to show of


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Now that I think about it, I do have something I want some opinions on.
First...my first Hormagaunt

Atm, I'm pretty satisfied with how he turned out, only thing I'm missing is how to do the skin in a quickly and still have it look decent.

Second, my old and new way of doing carpaces, which do you think look better? Have heard some people really liking the kinda neon purple/pink on the Termagant.


Lastly, my little darling, soon I shall paint you my sweetie (I love lictors!)


That's it for now, with 20 termagants and 15 hormagaunts to paint (reaaaaly slow painter), I'll probably not update for awhile, but summers right around the corner, so I'll have plenty of time then =)

how many lictors you planning to get?

So, it's been awhile. Well my biggest excuse is that I lost my camera, so I couldn't upload any pictures. "Aha, so he's been working hard on his models but couldn't upload any pictures, so this must be a giant update with all he's done!" you must be thinking. Wrong -.-', as I said, I'm a turtle slow painter, so I've only gotten one squad of raveners done. But it's summer! So I'm gonna try to get some done at a quicker pace!
Enough of my excuses, here's my Raveners, excuse the bad pictcure quility:









Probably my favorite:



Lastly, some WIP of my genestealers


It's hard to see from this angel, but I'm leaving the stealers belly white like the rest of their skin, but I'm not sure if that's how I want it. What do you think? Should I paint the belly black so it looks like a whole shell or should I keep it a half shell a la TMNT?

@bigfish, atleast one more, but the thing I'm looking to expand at the moment is my gants and gaunts

Wow, only one week since the last update, I amaze myself. Anyway, enough patting myself on the back, I finaly got all my Termagants and Genestealers done! Now I only have the Hormagaunts, Trygon and Mawloc left until I can expand with another battleforce and a hive tyrant! On with the pics:

With the gants, I tried to make it as simple as possible, with a little extra work on the carpace, since it's the part you'll be seeing most of the time, and also the best looking part on the tyranids in my opinion. I primed the models white (as always), then washed em in Devlan mud and Leviathan Purple, then a pretty heavy drybrush of skull white. The carpace was painted black, then Liche Purple, Liche Purple + Fortress Grey, and finaly pure fortress grey. It's a simple scheme, but I think it looks nice




For the Genestealers, I wanted the more raw, fleshy look I had on the Raveners, so it's bleched bone, wash with leviathan purple and warlock purple, and finish with a skull white drybrush.




And lastly, alittle WIP shot of my new monstrous creature, the Mawloc (that will probably proxy as a Trygon Prime in most games).

Looks really really good. Keep up the good work.

@40k ninja, Thanks, I'll try to keep up, painting motivation comes in waves so xP

Havn't gotten anything done, but I did play a 1250 point game vs my friends orks this weekend, and lost -.- . If anyone has a good way to take out a 8 nob squad with pain boy, several PK and BC plus a Warboss, please let me know, cause I felt like I hade zero things against them. On the brightside thought, I found out that my Hormagaunts are very good at killing grots, 6 of them took out about 30 of the little green weaklings ^^ As a reward, I'll be painting them next



I'm also getting tierd of a all white Trygon, so I put on some basecoating this evening on him. I wont finish him until the Gaunts are done, but it certinly lifts my spirit to see some paint on him



That's that for now, hopefully I'll have something finished next time.