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Dark_Gear wrote:Did you magnetise any of the bits or did you keep make the kit purely as the Tervigon?

I magnetized the crushing claws/scything talons, but everything else is glued. I don't think I'd ever use a Tyrannofex really so I couldn't be bothered to go through the trouble
Thanks for the comment


I've just spent the last hour trying to work out a few new lists to accommodate my impulse buy, does this one look okay to anyone who, unlike me, has actually played a game with Tyranids?

Tervigon - Toxin Sacks, Scything Talons, Catalyst (190)
Prime - Deathspitter, Duel Boneswords (95)

20 Hormagaunts - Toxin Sacks (160)
20 Hormagaunts - Toxin Sacks (160)
16 Genestealers - (224)
5 Warriors - Deathspitters, Rending Claws (200)

2 Hive Guard - (100)
2 Hive Guard - (100)
1 Zoanthrope - (60)

6 Raveners - Rending Claws (210)

TOTAL 1499

I'm happy to look at any suggestions And, from peoples experience, is it uncommon for a single Tervi to poop out more than 30 Termagaunts in a game?

Lets see the Tervi!

First of all, beautiful nids. There is nothing quite like a well painted tyranid army on the table, and is one of the coolest looking armies, imo. Your list looks good, but I would add a few more big gribblies when you get the chance. Trygons are good, of course, but Carnifexen can be good is you keep them cheap and have alot of nobs/paladins/thunderwolf cav in your area. A Hive Tyrant with paroxism can turn your hormagaunts into monsters when they get the charge, and can take pressure off of your raveners and warriors.

If you decide to buy gargoyles (amazing models) you should really magnetize their bases. I don't know how many stems I broke before I magnetized mine, and I havn't had a problem since.

Again, great work!

Norn King wrote:Lets see the Tervi!

No Tervigon today Norn, sorry! I may have been impulsive in the shop, but I've stuck to the painting plan. I think I might save the big beastie til last, to give my self a reward for painting all 103 other models

Eddtheman wrote:First of all, beautiful nids. There is nothing quite like a well painted tyranid army on the table, and is one of the coolest looking armies, imo. Your list looks good, but I would add a few more big gribblies when you get the chance. Trygons are good, of course, but Carnifexen can be good is you keep them cheap and have alot of nobs/paladins/thunderwolf cav in your area. A Hive Tyrant with paroxism can turn your hormagaunts into monsters when they get the charge, and can take pressure off of your raveners and warriors.

If you decide to buy gargoyles (amazing models) you should really magnetize their bases. I don't know how many stems I broke before I magnetized mine, and I havn't had a problem since.

Again, great work!

Thanks for the comment I've always really liked the look of the Nid's too, It's the main reason I went for them next! I'm not against having MC exactly (otherwise I wouldn't have gone and bought the tervi ), but from a fluffy point of view I've always preferred the "endless swarm" side of things a lot more than the TMC's. I'm not really looking for the list to be massively competitive, I generally just opted for models I like most, hence the 40 Hormagaunts and squad of Warriors

The whole reason I posted the list was just to make sure I hadn't missed something obvious that would mean the list simply couldn't work on any level That said, I was tempted to get a Tyrant at first, so I might just pick one up when the rest of the force is done and dusted!


Update time!

Thanks to having 3 days off work this week I really got some quality painting time down. As I've said before, I'm not looking to win any golden deamons (or even best painted in local tournies ), I simply want to get a fully painted army at long last! That said, I think they turned out to be a pretty decent table top standard! Let me know what you think




It probably took about 10 minutes to do the bone and the details on each model and only 35 minutes to dip the whole horde. The varnish spray only took about 2 minutes to do the whole squad! Army Painter, I love you. My previous army, dark eldar, only has 30 fully painted infantry models so far, and I've been painting them ever since their new codex dropped, I did all of these in a week!



Its a bit of a shame that after all of that, this squad isn't even in my list any more! Hopefully my Tervigon will be productive and be able to poop all these guys out at some point

And finally, 6 weeks after ordering them, my Prime's bone swords finally arrived from Chapterhouse! I had to cut his right arm at the elbow to rotate the blade round, I thought he looked a bit goofy flapping both swords up in the air Other than that I simply added an extra bit of chitin to each shoulder and green stuffed an extra long spike onto the back of his head so that he'd stand out more, and he was done. Nice and simple, yet I think he really stands out




Now that they have finally come, I will be aiming just to sort the Warrior squad out this week. If I happen to have some extra time I'll make sure all the Horma's get assembled at last (still got 18 to go!).

Thanks for reading as always, let me know what you think!

Loving how this swarm is coming together, nothing better then 30+ painted gaunts/gants rushing against the enemy! I like your tyranid prime, but he's abit plain atm. Some more spiky bits, beefier tail or a more dynamic pose, something to make him stand out more.

List comment: I'd recommend dropping a few gaunts so you can give your stealers toxin sac, will make em that much better in CC. Also, you should decide if your warriors are gonna do range or melee primarly, those rending claws will be abit wasted if you're just gonna have the warriors shoot over the gaunts

Keep it up, can't wait to see the Tervigon!

Ironically, there are now official Boneswords. Oops.

Anyway, great work!

Nice blog, dude! Keep the models coming!

Love the paint scheme, keep 'em coming!!! I feel your pain on the amount of finecast you've that was just plain botched... sad times...

Btw, how in the name of the great devourer are you going to dip and shake the Tervigon... there isnt a paint pot big enough I'd have thought

^ In sections?

Anyway, MOAR updates!

Limbo wrote:Loving how this swarm is coming together, nothing better then 30+ painted gaunts/gants rushing against the enemy! I like your tyranid prime, but he's abit plain atm. Some more spiky bits, beefier tail or a more dynamic pose, something to make him stand out more.

List comment: I'd recommend dropping a few gaunts so you can give your stealers toxin sac, will make em that much better in CC. Also, you should decide if your warriors are gonna do range or melee primarly, those rending claws will be abit wasted if you're just gonna have the warriors shoot over the gaunts

Keep it up, can't wait to see the Tervigon!

I've been rummaging through my bits box to try and find a way to make the prime stand out a little more but haven't really come up with anything. I think its easy enough to differentiate him from the rest of the squad as it stands so I'm not really that fussed about beefing him up any more. I actually got to play my first game with the Nids yesterday and found the Warrior squad were pretty good as they were. The Deathspitters managed to tear open a transport and they slashed their way through a unit and a half of GK's before biting the dust. Pirmarily, I was just using them to give cover to the units behind and to provide synapse, which they seemed to do pretty well.

As far as the rest of the list goes, as I wasn't playing with the full 1500 yesterday I ended up taking the Tervi as a troop, and put Toxin Sacks on both the Warriors and the stealers which I really liked. I'm going to see if I can work that into the list.

Squigsquasher wrote:Ironically, there are now official Boneswords. Oops.

Anyway, great work!

Thanks Yeah, the official boneswords weren't even being mentioned in the rumour threads when I ordered the chapterhouse ones! By the time they finally arrived though I probably could have got them from GW

LostSoulCasey'sLaw wrote:Nice blog, dude! Keep the models coming!

Thanks

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Love the paint scheme, keep 'em coming!!! I feel your pain on the amount of finecast you've that was just plain botched... sad times...

Btw, how in the name of the great devourer are you going to dip and shake the Tervigon... there isnt a paint pot big enough I'd have thought

I have no idea
to be quite honest I hadn't even thought of that until you mentioned it! I assume I'll have to just brush the quickshade on or crack out the Devlan mud. I'll probably do a bit more of a detailed paint job on the Tervi anyway, as it will sort of be my centrepiece.

Norn King wrote:^ In sections?

Anyway, MOAR updates!

I don't really fancy disassembling her to do that though I think a brush will have to be the answer to this one.



It feels like ages since I last updated, so her we go! As the weather has been so glorious here over the last few days I've bee struggling to make myself sit down and get painting, but here is how the hivefleet is shaping up.....




This second pic shows you how basic and bog standard the painting has to be with the army painter stuff. After spraying I probably only spent 10-15 minutes from start to finish on this dude. Sure it doesn't look awe inspiring, but after he gets a once over with the quickshade he'll look at least as good as the Raveners, which is all I'm really looking for. A reasonably painted army is a million times better than a grey plastic army, and that, unfortunately is my only option with a project that includes so many minis




And here's the rest of the brood! I hope to be able to get these fellas all quickshaded tomorrow and varnished the next day so you can see the (almost) end results. I say almost because I think I'll be leaving all the bases blank for the time being, so I can see how decent these new textured GW paints will be and so I can do the rest of the army in one hit if they're worth the investment.

I was originally planning to take my DE to my battle yesterday, but I rushed in the morning to get these guys all sprayed up so I could stick their bases on! Shame most of them were clensing flamed off the board in a single turn, but at least it gave me an incentive to get the tippy-gaunts ready for the painting station!

*sings Motley Crue's "Girls girls girls" to the words "Gaunts Gaunts Gaunts" hehehe*

Those gaunts are barely a scouting party.

^ Lol, the calm before the swarm.


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Btw, sorry if this has been asked, but are you using the army painter spray?

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:*sings Motley Crue's "Girls girls girls" to the words "Gaunts Gaunts Gaunts" hehehe*

Swordwind wrote:Those gaunts are barely a scouting party.

True, but it's as near to a real swarm as I'd be able to paint without going completely insane

Norn King wrote:^ Lol, the calm before the swarm.

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Btw, sorry if this has been asked, but are you using the army painter spray?

Yeah, Crystal blue and the medium quickshade




Mini update, unfortunately I've not been able to get much done this week on the Warhammer front due to family stuff coming up. I hopefully should be able to get some time next week to sit down and get painting again, but it means I wont have any pics up for a while. Sorry!

Keep checking back though, I'll try and get something up (It may only be something little though) as soon as I get an oppertunity.

Hey guys,
Sorry its been so long between updates. I'm really struggling to find time to get any hobby done at the moment, but I did get an hour and a bit last night to get a little more done. I think I'm going to try and crack on and get everything painted before getting the quickshade out again, so unfortunately it's just going to be pictures of flat 3 colour painting for the time being!




Here's the Hiveguard squad that I managed to get finished off yesterday

I didn't get a close up on the more noticably miscast model (the back one of the two in the top pic) that I mentioned previously, but it's almost looking okay now. When I look at it alongside the other ones, its still pretty easy to see where its gone wrong, but if you look at it on its own then it looks pretty aright



And here's my first 10 (of 40 ) Hormagaunts. It's really slow going painting the Hormas, before I started them I thought they'd take no time compaired to the Terma's as there is much less armour, but it's turning out to take even longer!

Here's a little checklist just so I can keep track of whats left to do:

1 Tervigon - Needs spraying, painting, quickshading
1 Tyranid Prime- Needs quickshading

5 Warriors - Needs quickshading
16 Genestealers - Done
30 Termagaunts - Done
40 Hormagaunts - 30 need painting, all quickshading

6 Raveners - Done

4 Hive guard - 2 need spraying, 2 need painting, all need quickshading
1 Zoanthrope - Done

Good update! I will soon be joining you in the painting of Gaunts. (My new nid army is going to have the never ending swarm theme)

Very nice pain scheme dude!

Norn King wrote:Good update! I will soon be joining you in the painting of Gaunts. (My new nid army is going to have the never ending swarm theme)

Thanks ooh good luck with it! Any idea what scheme you're going for yet?

TH3FALL3N wrote:Very nice pain scheme dude!

Thank you

Hive Fleet Kraken, I know I know, everyone does it. It just love the colours, i dont know why.

Norn King wrote:Hive Fleet Kraken, I know I know, everyone does it. It just love the colours, i dont know why.

I'm the same, Kraken was my second choice, If I wasn't planning on redoing my Khorne Chaos soon I'd have gone for it. But I didn't think i'd be able to cope with painting that much red



Time to have a look at this weeks work I did pretty much the same as I did last week, so most of this update wont be hugely exciting, But here it is none the less!

First up was the tedious job of getting another 10 Hormagaunts painted up. Thats a whole brood done now, one more to go! (you can see them stood ready and waiting in the background of the picture )


I got the Gaunts done by Friday so I got to spend yesterday afternoon sorting out my last two Hiveguard. All 4 are done now and just awaiting the mass quickshading!


And as I had the blue spray out again I went ahead and got the big beastie sprayed up as well! Hopefully now I know she's sat waiting for me will spur me on to get through the last Hormagaunt brood!



I really enjoyed the pretty colours at the end of my last post so I thought I'd go for it again today Thanks for reading, any comments are appreciated!

1 Tervigon - Needs painting, quickshading
1 Tyranid Prime- Needs quickshading

5 Warriors - Needs quickshading
16 Genestealers - Done
30 Termagaunts - Done
40 Hormagaunts - 20 need painting, all quickshading

6 Raveners - Done

4 Hive guard - Need quickshading
1 Zoanthrope - Done

Really like yours scheme! also that prime is compleatly badass, well done

Why didn't I think of this for my Tyranids?

Instead...over 12 stages for a single Gaunt...

I am officially subscribed as I am also building a hive fleet myself, it is still in the design phase but it is coming along. I already have a hive tyrant and codex. Nice work on the paint. I will be following this closely.

Looking great, as usual!

bigfish wrote:Really like yours scheme! also that prime is compleatly badass, well done

Thanks I really like him too, not too overstated but I think its clear enough to that he stands out

Squigsquasher wrote:Why didn't I think of this for my Tyranids?

Instead...over 12 stages for a single Gaunt...

Wow that's impressive! have you got any pic's? I'd love to have been able to spend more time on these guys, but I don't think I'd ever get them done if I was spending that much time on each fig

Synister_Intent wrote:I am officially subscribed as I am also building a hive fleet myself, it is still in the design phase but it is coming along. I already have a hive tyrant and codex. Nice work on the paint. I will be following this closely.

Thanks man, good to have you on board I'll try and keep you updated as regularly as I can

Norn King wrote:Looking great, as usual!

Thanks for the support man



Okay, life has been manic the last week or so so I haven't had much time to get more done, but I got a little more to show you


That brings me up to 30 painted Hormas (only 10 left now!) I'll try my best to get them done this week!

I've had 2 more games since my last update and After what felt like an hour of trying to balance the tippy-gaunts I've come to the conclusion that I REALLY need to find a way to weight their bases. I've had real trouble with them, with normal bases I just superglue a penny underneath, but as these guys have the slot bases that obviously doesn't work. I've tried blu-tac, but then they seem to stick to the board. I've tried green stuff but that seems like a waste of my supply, and its not exactly cheap. I keep trying to think of small heavy things I can glue on either side on the slot in the base, but haven't had any great ideas so far.

Does anyone have any suggestions? It's going to bug the hell out of me if these guys keep faceplanting every time they get moved!

I use modelling clay on my Hormagaunts, it's cheap and it weighs them down. However, they do fall out, so always have some superglue to hand.

tis the very reason I hate Hormagaunts... Give me Termagants any day of the week ^_^

I use fish weights then mask them with paint and alot of grass

These look amazing man. But every time I see them I think of the Smurfs. Just saying.

Squigsquasher wrote:Why didn't I think of this for my Tyranids?

Instead...over 12 stages for a single Gaunt...

I'm nearly as bad.

White undercoat.
Blue wash.
Bone.
Blue wash.
Bone.
Black.
Midnight blue edges
Regal blue edges.
Ultrablue feathering.
Yellow eyes
Stone/white teeth.
Purple tongue.
Purple wash on tongue and weapon ends.

We need help man.

This simples scheme has me all jealous of it.