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DarkStarSabre wrote:

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.

We need help man.

This simples scheme has me all jealous of it.

I think it pays of in the end to have these stages on your nids, escpecially if you focus on the carpaces. Can't deny that I wish it went this fast with such good results thought. Here's a good tip for you thought: Army Painter Skeleton Bone spray. Cut my painting time (escpecially on larger creatures) by alot.

These guys are looking really good, i love the simply painting style, but in the striking colours. Any chance of an unblury army shot please?

Young Logan

Squigsquasher wrote: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.

Thats one of the problems I've had when I was trying with modeling clay and blutac and things like that, it either falls out all the time or they sometimes stick to the gaming table! havent found a happy medium yet.

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

Yeah, I'm starting to wish I'd decided on taking more Terma's. I love the look of the Horma's, they're just such a pain to stand up and store in a case!

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

Thats a great idea, thanks for the suggestion. Theres a fishing store about 10 mins from my house so I'll try pop in there soon and see what I can find

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

I I only just recently noticed that actually, I was paying a game against my mates Ultras last week and noticed the unfortunate similarity thankfully they look a bit brighter than smurfs IRL, but still, you're definitely right

DarkStarSabre wrote:

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.

Both ways have their merits, I'm sure when yours are all done they will make mine look like utter crap If I had the time I'd love to be able to put so much effort into each individual model, but this is about as good as I'd be able to get with the very limited amount of hobby time I get.

Limbo wrote:

DarkStarSabre wrote:

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.

We need help man.

This simples scheme has me all jealous of it.

I think it pays of in the end to have these stages on your nids, escpecially if you focus on the carpaces. Can't deny that I wish it went this fast with such good results thought. Here's a good tip for you thought: Army Painter Skeleton Bone spray. Cut my painting time (escpecially on larger creatures) by alot.

Yeah, when Nid carapace is done properly it can look amazing. But for the amount of time I've spent on these guys, I'm really happy with the results. You're competely right about the spray, I can't describe how impressed I've been with army painter, it's cut my painting time in half!

Young_Logan wrote:These guys are looking really good, i love the simply painting style, but in the striking colours. Any chance of an unblury army shot please?

Young Logan

Thanks man
Once I get the last of the Hormagaunts done I plan to quickshade everything thats painted (whole army except Tervi). I'll get a group shop for you then




I've got the bone colour done on 4 or 5 of the 10 remaining gaunts so far. Progress is going a bit slower than usual thanks to the arrival of my Forge World order and the new GW paints I'll try to get some more pics up over the weekend if time permits and I can draw myself away from the Khorney goodness! Thanks for the comments guys

TAKE THEM OFF! MY GREY KNIGHTS WILL OWN THEM, MWAHAHAHAHAHA

have you considered battle foams hormagaunt trays for storage and travel???

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:have you considered battle foams hormagaunt trays for storage and travel???

Yeah, I spent an arm and a leg on a DE case from Battle foam that I've been really happy with, but I cant really face spending £100+ again I've got a cheap little KR multicase for these guys that fits everything except the Tervi, and for a fraction of the price, I'm not going to complain!




Update time



It's been a long time coming but this morning I finally finished painting the last of the Hormagaunts! I was hoping to be able to get the quickshade out when I finished these guys but unfortunately it's pissing it down with rain atm. Hopefully I'll get a chance when the weather clears up!

Until that time comes, all that is left for me to to is to crack on with the Tervigon! I haven't had a chance yet, but fingers crossed I'll be able to get to work on her over the next day or two! Sorry It's only another short update today, but now I've got the boring the bit out of the way, the last little part of the project should be a little more interesting


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

5 Warriors - Needs quickshading
16 Genestealers - Done
30 Termagaunts - Done
40 Hormagaunts - Need quickshading

6 Raveners - Done

4 Hive guard - Need quickshading
1 Zoanthrope - Done

Wow. You have been painting hard.

Hey guys (and possibly girls),
Just another short update. I finally got to make a start on Mrs Tervigon this week. It was only a really rough go at sorting out the carapace and even that is nowhere near done yet, but I thought a small post would be better than none at all





Whilst I was painting this beastie I realised I haven't had to paint a single pair of scything talons for this army yet, and I'm not quite sure what to do! Shall I make the blade the same colour as the carapace at the top? shall I do the blade a different colour? I think it will look really plain/lazy if I was to just do the whole thing in bone, I think purple would look bizarre, leaving it blue looks silly, but incorporating a whole new colour into the army just for this final model doesn't feel right.

Any ideas?

Leave it bone. I paint my talons the same way as my carapaces, and it works fine (although my method of painting is significantly different to yours).

If you want to see my colour scheme, check out my gallery. It only has one model up so far (a Hive Guard) but ratings and comments would be appreciated (shameless self advertisement).

Leaving it the bone colour might be you only option IMO, but I'm not really an expert.

Edit: Just noticed this is the PBlogs 100th reply Woo celebrate

Squigsquasher wrote:Leave it bone. I paint my talons the same way as my carapaces, and it works fine (although my method of painting is significantly different to yours).

If you want to see my colour scheme, check out my gallery. It only has one model up so far (a Hive Guard) but ratings and comments would be appreciated (shameless self advertisement).

Norn King wrote:Leaving it the bone colour might be you only option IMO, but I'm not really an expert.

Yeah I did decide to leave them bone coloured in the end. Great minds think alike


Okay, so this week I've spent most of my hobby time super-gluing fishing weights to the bases of my hormagaunts as suggested by Limbo (thanks again for the suggestion man!). I've never fished in my life and have absolutely 0 knowledge of fishing, so I had to take a complete stab in the dark when guessing what size of weight I needed (I ended up going for size 9 whatever that means ). It seemed to pan out okay though, they do the job, they don't protrude from the rim of the base and they were really cheap. If anybody else is looking for a way to sort their bases (and doesn't want to walk in into a fishing shop and look like a complete n00b) I got them here



When I got bored senseless of gluing balls I got a little more time to work on the Tervigon






It doesn't seem to show up too clearly in the pics (and probably wont after its been quickshaded either tbh ) but the baby sack hanging under the Tervigon was painted in a couple of layers of Enchanted blue, Ice blue and astronomicon grey slowly making it lighter and increasing the amount of grey with each layer. followed by a light dry brush of straight grey. Seeing as she is going to be my centrepiece model, I thought I could at least try and make her look a little more pretty

And with that, finally, everything is painted now hopefully it wont rain one evening this week so I can get outside and let the dipping commence!

1 Tervigon - Needs quickshading
1 Tyranid Prime- Needs quickshading

5 Warriors - Needs quickshading
16 Genestealers - Done
30 Termagaunts - Done
40 Hormagaunts - Need quickshading

6 Raveners - Done

4 Hive guard - Need quickshading
1 Zoanthrope - Done

Really liking momma Tervi. The purple is really striking, contrasting very nicely.

Love the quick shading, might get my self a pot.

Okay! It's been a fair while since I've been able to bring you a big update, but as I finally got some decent weather this weekend I decided to get dipping

First, I had to get the last few weights stuck on the base of the Hormagaunts, but now, thankfully, they can stand up by themselves! With that little task out of the way I cracked the Quickshade out and went out to enjoy the sunshine (and to get a headache and feel sick from the Quickshady fumes )




I soon found that I'd have a lot of trouble with the bigger beasties, see the first pic below for example I ended up brushing the quick shade on for the Hive guard seeing as they couldn't fit in the tin.



I didn't really get on with working with it this way, the brush made the wash bubble and almost go foamy so I was struggling to get such a consistent cover as I did when dipping them. Once I finished the Hive guard (I wanted them all to look uniform) I decided It would probably be best to use Devlan Mud from now on, on the bigger things at least.

That said, the quick shade was perfect again when doing the gaunts. I managed to get all 40 done in no time at all!



Then all I had to do was leave them to dry. This morning I bunched them all up close on a tray so I could spray them with the matt varnish, As long as you do it this way I'm sure a single can of the stuff would last for years. I've done over 100 models so far and the can still feels completely full They ended up a little bit like this.





As I said, I decided against the quickshade for the Warriors, sure its a little more time consuming but it got the job done, and I much prefer the finish on these guys.





Damn, I didn't realise how out of focus this was when I was looking at it on my phone, but at least it gives you an idea of the over all look!



Anyway, with that little update, it makes my little check list look a lot better

1 Tervigon - Needs quickshading
1 Tyranid Prime-Done

5 Warriors - Done
16 Genestealers - Done
30 Termagaunts - Done
40 Hormagaunts - Done

6 Raveners - Done

4 Hive guard - Done
1 Zoanthrope - Done

Looking awesome Gorechild, glad to see an update finally

although I'm a fine one to talk atm

keep it up dude

I've been trying to decide what the choose as my second army. This blog has just inspired me to do a swarm Tyranid army!

Really cool scheme and consistent throughout. Keep it up.

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Looking awesome Gorechild, glad to see an update finally

although I'm a fine one to talk atm

keep it up dude

Yeah, sorry about how slow the updates have been recently. It's partly been down to the fact that I really haven't been able to do much because I can't quickshade inside and the weather has been crap, and partly because I'm lazy

CaptainHonkey wrote:I've been trying to decide what the choose as my second army. This blog has just inspired me to do a swarm Tyranid army!

Oooh yay I inspired somone! Thanks for the comment dude

mousespook wrote:Really cool scheme and consistent throughout. Keep it up.

Thanks, glad you like it

i understand that horde painting can be a pain but just basecoating and dipping isnt really doing it for me...
maybe an edgehighlight on the carapace and a quick drybrush over the blue??

im loving the models poses however! its a good looking army overall!

to avoid throwing more models onto the floor, you can try brushing it on. not as quick but a lot safer!

Must buy... boxes of Gaunts...

Dijinsk is very welcome to his opinion and I can see where they're coming from BUT I for one am loving the finished scheme. The Hormagaunts you show close ups of look very good indeed!

I've been lurking your thread like an Imperial scout ship on the Fringe for some time - I was interested to see how this quickshade method came out!

I love that latest shot - it's like the last reel from an Imperial security camera in some distant hiveworld!

MOAR PAINT!!! Oh, and good luck washing those monstrous units.... :S

DijnsK wrote:i understand that horde painting can be a pain but just basecoating and dipping isnt really doing it for me...
maybe an edgehighlight on the carapace and a quick drybrush over the blue??

im loving the models poses however! its a good looking army overall!

to avoid throwing more models onto the floor, you can try brushing it on. not as quick but a lot safer!

Thanks for the comment. I understand entirely that this approach isn't everybody's cup of tea, but I really wanted to get these dudes done and dusted to reasonable standard in a sensible amount of time. I've been playing World Eaters CSM's for more than a decade and still don't have a fully painted 1500 point army, realistically I'd never have got the Nid's painted in any other way And I'm sure we can all agree, this is better than a horde of grey plastic!

angel of ecstasy wrote:Must buy... boxes of Gaunts...

I can confidently say that, after all of those guys, I wont be buying any more Gaunts for a LONG time

Jihad_Ragsta wrote:I love that latest shot - it's like the last reel from an Imperial security camera in some distant hiveworld!

Then hopefully you'll like this next post


I'll start off with the Tervigon. As I said in my last post, I wasn't getting on very well with brushing the quick shade on, so this big beasty used up the last of my Devlan Mud
Still....I think its come out okay:





And now, finally, as everything is painted, I managed to get some half decent group shots of the whole army together.
















And that, sadly, is just about the end of the blog. I finally have a fully painted army and I hope that at least some people out there have enjoyed following me through with its creation Let me know what you think, I might see if I can throw together a battle report with these guys if people are interested in seeing one

Thanks again to everyone for all your comments (and criticisms ) and thank you for every one of the nearly 7000 views so far

maybe a clean up on some of the larger models as you can see where the wash has pooled. still looks good though, and you did knock out an army really really quick

Congrats on completing your force, mate

YES, please can we get some battle reports? ^.^

Jihad_Ragsta wrote:
Congrats on completing your force, mate

YES, please can we get some battle reports? ^.^

Shouldn't be too long away, my first written battle rep will hopefully be my GKs against GC's 'Nids, but I need to get my army painted first!

Wow, a surprising amount of models! Great job, everything looks sick!

bigfish wrote:maybe a clean up on some of the larger models as you can see where the wash has pooled. still looks good though, and you did knock out an army really really quick

I've been looking at doing that over the last few days but havent had much luck. The only model it really bothers me on is the Zoanthropem but I'm sure I'll be able to live with it. I did over 100 models in under 3 months, and considering I only really get like 3 hours a week for hobby-ing I'm really happy with how they turned out.

GoDz BuZzSaW wrote:

Jihad_Ragsta wrote:
Congrats on completing your force, mate

YES, please can we get some battle reports? ^.^

Shouldn't be too long away, my first written battle rep will hopefully be my GKs against GC's 'Nids, but I need to get my army painted first!

I might see if I can knock up a little report at home over the next week or so just as a proper fairwell to the blog, odd's are the Nid's will get flattened, but at least they'll do it looking good Then I'll be ready to go for our rep GoDz

Norn King wrote:Wow, a surprising amount of models! Great job, everything looks sick!

Thanks for your support and comments throughout Norn, There were a couple of weeks last month when I'd never of got round to updating if it wasnt for you

It certainly was not a chore. Everytim i saw it update, I would literally go "Oh good, gorechilds updated it".

Awesome! Are you going to base them?

Squigsquasher wrote:Awesome! Are you going to base them?

Now you have a way to continue the blog! :B
I wish I had the attention-span to give my whole army a consistent scheme D: