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Hey folks!

Just a quick intro, new to this site and Warhammer 40k. I'm 27 so quite late in getting into this, basically me and my best friend have been trying to get into decent board games. My mate found a heap of his old 40k miniatures and we messed around and tried to play a game. We enjoyed but didn't really know what we were doing so headed into our local GW and got an intro into 40k and we're pretty hooked.

We both bought the dark vengeance starter set because my mate wants to make Chaos Space Marines but we both needed rule books etc plus GW were giving a £20 voucher for every starter set. So I gave all the miniatures out my set to my mate and he gave me his £20 voucher so basically got a rule book, dice and templates etc for £15!

Anyway I've decided I'm going for Tyranids so I bought a hobby starter kit and a box of Gants to start me off. Wanted a codex but none in stock and was told a new one is expected. No idea how I am going to build my army yet as I wanted to study the codex first so will just be patient and maybe get more gaunts/gants to practice on. I'm looking forward to painting the most, never really done much before apart from the odd airfix models when I was younger. I want to come up with my own colour scheme but after looking at tutorial videos I might stick to a standard one like Levithan first to get the techniques down and more because there are a lot of colours involved and I wouldn't know which colours I would need apart from the obvious ones.

Is worth buying the painting guide for the nids or am I best sticking to youtube? Thought it would maybe be a waste of £20?

Hi. Welcome to Dakka

Welcome to dakka!

I wouldn't bother with a painting guide as they are tons of videos, blogs ,and threads on painting nids.

Welcome to Dakka!

Re: painting guide, yes you are better off looking at tutorials on YouTube. And of course browse the galleries here on Dakka, the Painting and Modelling forums, and the collected knowledge in the articles section.

Hi and welcome!

GW actually do very good online tutorial videos for painting. Look for the Warhammer TV channel on YouTube.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJaW_rQIS_s

marcella wrote:
Hey folks!

Just a quick intro, new to this site and Warhammer 40k. I'm 27 so quite late in getting into this, basically me and my best friend have been trying to get into decent board games. My mate found a heap of his old 40k miniatures and we messed around and tried to play a game. We enjoyed but didn't really know what we were doing so headed into our local GW and got an intro into 40k and we're pretty hooked.

We both bought the dark vengeance starter set because my mate wants to make Chaos Space Marines but we both needed rule books etc plus GW were giving a £20 voucher for every starter set. So I gave all the miniatures out my set to my mate and he gave me his £20 voucher so basically got a rule book, dice and templates etc for £15!

Anyway I've decided I'm going for Tyranids so I bought a hobby starter kit and a box of Gants to start me off. Wanted a codex but none in stock and was told a new one is expected. No idea how I am going to build my army yet as I wanted to study the codex first so will just be patient and maybe get more gaunts/gants to practice on. I'm looking forward to painting the most, never really done much before apart from the odd airfix models when I was younger. I want to come up with my own colour scheme but after looking at tutorial videos I might stick to a standard one like Levithan first to get the techniques down and more because there are a lot of colours involved and I wouldn't know which colours I would need apart from the obvious ones.

Is worth buying the painting guide for the nids or am I best sticking to youtube? Thought it would maybe be a waste of £20?

Weclome!

Id look for paint tutorials on youtube and such. Also take alook at peoples army lists and what they are running. Units may seem good in the book but then you get them on the battlefield after spend $50+ and they dont fend as well... theres nothing worse!

Good luck!

Welcome to this fantastic forum full of friendly dudes. Don't bother spending your money on painting guides. Youtube is all you need and save your cash on miniatures and paints. When you learn a handful of basics like: priming, basecoating, shading and etc you are ready to paint almost eveyrthing that GW got as models. Look up for the channels of TheApatheticFish and orkpaintnerd. All i know is from those guys, also I always reccomend this site: http://www.how-to-paint-miniatures.com/miniature_painting_getting_started.html

Greeting, welcome to the forums! There's plenty of tutorials all over the net for almost every model you could think of. Even GW themselves has a Youtube channel with painting tutorials. It would be hard to think of a situation where their painting books would have that much value these days, but maybe theres some tutorials you can't find elsewhere in them or you might just prefer that format, who knows.

Good blog here for painting tutorials + the specific guide I used to paint the two Tyranids I bothered with before giving into Chaos : http://taleofpainters.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/tutorial-how-to-paint-tyranids-hive_18.html

Hi,

Welcome to Dakka

Welcome to WH40K and DakkaDakka, i'd didn't start till last year (when I was 26) so its never too late to start. If anything its a lot easier when you have a steady paycheck, haha. All the painting advice that everyone above has stated is true, another tip is to use DakkaDakka gallery. When your ready paint a few 'nids, then post the pics and ask for critique. Good luck and have fun.

Welcome to dakka. Hope you enjoy your stay!

Also welcome to the playing the 'nids, good to see new tyranid players!

Looks like you started off with a good kit to save money too. Those 'get started' bundles are cheap, previously unheard of from Games Workshop.