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Hello,

Today we have a small part of a big army to show you! When you look at the photos you’ll see numerous little space bugs (indeed, a mass of them), but it’s only a small tendril of the whole Tyranid Swarm we’re currently painting. Much more of the little ones are incoming, and the ground is shaking with the footsteps of the bigger ones that are incoming…

Ever played Tower Defense games? Think of this part as the first wave of critters incoming – and there will be more and more of them, with bigger ones and biggest ones as well – so stay tuned and wait for more updates – there will be a handful of them – and see how the Hive Fleet is growing bigger and bigger!

The models were painted in our equivalent of tabletop quality – put quality-wise and pricing-wise below our Standard quality.

Also, you may see the pictures in ourgallery as well!








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Looks really good swarming across the table. So many!

 MegaDave wrote:
Looks really good swarming across the table. So many!

Just the first wave of those...

that is a lot of gaunts.

And they look quite good. My only small pet peeve is the devourer barrels look kinda out of place. That type of green doesn't fit the rest of the scheme IMO

Very impressive!

Kudos to your artist(s) for maintaining a consistent quality among so many models.

I like the scheme and that swarm is going to look amazing on the battlefield!

Well done!

nice. lovin the glow effects on the bases.

Is this gonna be a standup fight Sir, or just another Bughunt?

You folks always put out some great stuff!

Love this. How do you keep the consistence across the whole swarm... I would end up with a vast array of blues by the end!

“Attention! Tyranid vawe incoming! On your posts, guardsmen, the cysts are descending and Emperor knows what will emerge from them!”

As promised, another update – this time Tyrannocytes and spores. Take a look at our gallery as well to see better quality photos
Also, see the updated gallery featuring the growing swarm!











What will emerge from the organic pods?



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Absolutely gorgeous, I'd love to have that kind of talent!

Looks good!

And the „boss” of the second wave. How do you like our approach to the bigger bugs in this scheme and quality of painting?




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why no base?

otherwise, I think the big bugs look not nearly as nice as the small gribbles.

The bases of the bigger bugs are still being discussed with customer.

As for the looking of the bugs, it's perhaps due to the quality of painting of the model and the similar effect needed to be achieved on the smaller and bigger models alike.

Hello,

And another wave of beasts incoming! This time with flying support and led by a Hive Tyrant.













How is this simple pallete working on those bugs?


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Really really really nice work.
The crone and tervi are excellent.

Excellent work as always!

You must go through an awful lot of paint.

I'd not call it "awful"

Soon there will be an update, stay tuned!

Hello,

Another Tyranid monstrosities appeared, this time in even more bizarre variety of shapes and monstrous ways to kill and devour:













There are still more to come, the biggest ones need to be unveiled still!


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How the heck did you get their armor to look like its got a slight glow to it?

That is insane. And so many done to the same level of skill. Geeeeez.....

Love love love

Wow...that is a really nice color scheme. Beautiful and terrifying

Hello,

It’s time for another update of the Swarm Today, the really big Tyranids are beginning to appear with heavy thumping of leathery wings in the air.

The colossal Harridan emerged from behing of the horizon, with his gaping maw, numerous gargoyles holding tightly to the underbelly and heavy, whipping tail. Visit our gallery as well to see him.








It’s not the end of the Swarm! More big bugs are still threatening the Imperial stronghold!


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That Harridan is gorgeous!

The transitions for the blue on the wings and chitin is quite lovely.

Your client has an impressive force!

Hello,

With one of the final waves, the hoardes of Raveners and Venomthropes amassed the Imperial defences, only to be followed by the mighty Hierophant Titan. He was such enormous beast that even the cybernetic eyes of pic-capturing servo-skulls failed to comprehend fully the creature (and had to catch some white background as well ). We call it “shrimp” in the studio, due to the characteristic curvature of it’s back (and of course, size)

You may see the Hierophant in our gallery as well.













It’s not over yet! What will be next?


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Really liking the hive crone, haruspex and tervigon paintjobs above all others!

Actually, just saw the exocrine- definitely my favourite. The effect on the carapace of his back is insane, similar to the shimmering/shininess of certain beetles found in nature.

How did you do it?

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Really liking the hive crone, haruspex and tervigon paintjobs above all others!

Actually, just saw the exocrine- definitely my favourite. The effect on the carapace of his back is insane, similar to the shimmering/shininess of certain beetles found in nature.

How did you do it?

It's the metallic basecoat and Tamiya blue clear,