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I'm really liking the brightness- just think about getting maybe a heavier dark wash on the other parts to help contrast it.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
This is thing two, thanks for the messages. My dad just sent my titan (off to be painted - GS) so I'm waiting on that and I'm also working on my new malanthrope. I'm thinking to put a lighter green tint to my Nids, what do you think? I will put a picture up pretty soon. I would say I'm a genestealer but who knows from thing two.



**** This is the actual Gitsplitta... he's asking how everyone like the lighter shading/streaking of green on his malanthrope (as compared to the older models which have considerably darker plates). He got a second malanthrope for his birthday and he'll be painting it himself with a bit of help from me.****

I Really like the lighter streaking on the green, this makes the scheme much more striking! Definitely go with it

I love the lighter armor streaks. Makes it pop so much more

 Dr H wrote:
All the best people have their birthdays in September.

I know a ton of people with early-September birthdays. Good people indeed. And let's be frank - christmas/new year's is a rather cosy time.



The lighter green works as well I think. By the way, I like that base. Is it just a flat base glued to a regular round base or is it a one-piece thing with a "step" in it?

It's a cast base, so the step is built in.

I'm just so crude when it comes to painting tyranids, even when I try they look like hell to me. Just not my thing I guess.

One of Thing 2's Christmas presents was a fully painted Hierophaunt (sp?) bio titan. Done by a friend of mine. The "basing" consists of 3 heavy brass, square rods coming out of the body roughly to the same points where the rear legs and chest come down. I know most of you won't like this, but it's very stable and allows the titan to move across the table without completely disrupting the terrain and/or other units. Much more realistic in my opinion.

We're going to play a 2000 pt game tomorrow in order to try it out. Here's his list. Not perhaps what I would have chosen... but I picked a marine army that should give him a variety of fun targets to blow up. Here's hoping it goes well and he has fun with it.

Nah, what you do is model up those rods as Marines or Orks or whatever shooting up at the Heiro, with their rockets or whatnot glancing inneffectually off its carapace.

Been a very long time since I've posted here. Kind of exciting news. Thing 2 (who's the "Nid-runner") built and painted his first model totally from scratch last week. I didn't push him, he just did it. He was inspired by playing in his first local tournament last weekend... and just got down and did it. I'm very proud of him. Still a few touch-ups around the face perhaps... but I'm inclined not to be picky about the details and just let him enjoy his accomplishment. I'll be getting a special resin base for him so he can match the rest of the army, which is why he's just on unadorned plastic.

Way to go, Thing 2!

Nice looking bug!

Good job Thing 2. Keep it up.

Gits' your household must have shares in green paint.

Great job. Good to hear he's getting out and playing other gamer's.

Thanks guys, I'll be sure that he sees your comments. I know he'll be excited about them.

He's got another big beastie to do... one of the tenticular pod thingies. He's pretty excited about that as well.

Excellent first build, looks brilliant.

Cool! even thee Nids are green at Gits' house!

Ah yes. Green and yellow predominate, with red being a close second (admech, knights, red knights (GK)... though the red knights weren't my creation). EC are purple of course... Halloween army is all over the place, Necrons are weathered gold and blue. 30k dark mechanicus army will be black primarily... that'll be new and different eh?