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Well, I started Tyranids several months ago. Still learning how to even play games with this army. Also still learning how to paint the army First army to be painting.
Here is some pictures of what I have painted and a small bundle of pictures from a game I played today (06/11/2011). Also contains some custom built Shrikes:
*NOTE*: I did not remove any mold lines...hate messing with those things! And your comments are welcomed, be it "They SUX!" or "Meh..." or "Good job."

Shrikes:







Hormagaunts:





Genestealers:






Victory for the Tyranids:



<------------ Death to Lysara (sp?)!!!!

Most promising indeed, dig the gaunts especially.

As this is going to be an ongoing project, I'm going to move this over to the P & M blog section of the site.

.. so no slacking off now !

Very promising. We shall watch to see this develop - the shrike conversions are rather well done though you need to do something for the rear limbs - perhaps converting up rending claws as feet?

Cool appreciate you playing nids in a not nid frienndly edition.

Nice shrikes, makes a fairly cheap alternative to buying the forgeworld wings.

They don't look small either, which is surprising.

Good choice on the Kraken scheme too.

reds8n wrote: Most promising indeed, dig the gaunts especially.

As this is going to be an ongoing project, I'm going to move this over to the P & M blog section of the site.

.. so no slacking off now !

Thanks, I will be making sure future threads will go in their correct locations!

DarkStarSabre wrote:Very promising. We shall watch to see this develop - the shrike conversions are rather well done though you need to do something for the rear limbs - perhaps converting up rending claws as feet?

Ya, I have always thought the Shikes where just like giant Gargoyles...so no legs. But if I prime them (they originally were just Warriors on the bases, you can see their glued feet), the leg locations will be flat so I will need to actually be doing something with them sometime.

biohazardcake wrote:Cool appreciate you playing nids in a not nid frienndly edition.

Ya, tell me about it. I get crushed so much its dis-heartening.

Medium of Death wrote:Nice shrikes, makes a fairly cheap alternative to buying the forgeworld wings.

They don't look small either, which is surprising.

Good choice on the Kraken scheme too.

Ya, I am kinda surprised the Gargoyle wings fit nicely. And I do not see many people do Kraken schemes, of course, I do not see many people play Tyranids so...

I will either be painting the rest of my Hormagaunts and taking pictures of them also. They will actually be painted using a wash instead of all dry brushing and stuff. Hope they will not look too differently. And about the bases, I was thinking about doing some type of jungle theme to them. So how would you go about differentiation between models that look alike? I was thinking painting the flat, outside surface of the base a different color. I normally play 2 squads of 16 Hormagaunts so I could paint the first 16 blue and the last 16 yellow? Trying to think of colors that do not distract from the models and it's soon to be basing but can easily be distinguished between squads if they were mixed together.

Lysander demands a rematch.

Look good to me. I look forward to seeing the rest.

Ironic that the nids beat the ultra marines. Nice to see another nid player out there!