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Ok so after selling my guard for a tidy amount and having that new army itch I have decided to give the tyranids a go. I have become increasingly frustrated as every army I seem to play is declared as being overpowered by the majority my local gaming group, tyranids have a reputation for being underwhelming that combined with the new models made the descision easy.

First things first here is the majority of stuff I have to build and paint.





and to paint them



Missing from the picture (as they are already built and awaiting paint) are 3 biovores, 24 termagants, 15 or so spores and another tervigon.




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Hey all

First model done, tried out a bunch of similar schemes but none of them 'gelled' quite right, or had the ease of painting required for an army. So here is the colours of Hive Fleet Grendel





Up next 19 or so more termies (half way through painting) and some Biovores (applying scheme to a bigger model).


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Long time no update, got distracted by various other projects (BB, SoTR, Uncharted Seas, ACTA: Star Fleet, etc) but here are the first 20 termegants finished







Up next Biovores!


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Long time with no update I've been distracted painting other things (mainly blood bowl teams) but with the advent of 6th edition it's time to get back in the saddle so to speak.Ok so I'm happy with how the scheme works on small models I now needed to try it out on medium and large models here are the results (with some minor purity seal 'frosting' which is more than slightly annoying).

Spore mines



Biovores



and Tervigon






All in all test complete and satisfied with paint scheme.


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Update - Here is the result of the last 2 days painting test scheme for gargoyles and the big bad himself the Swarmlord!




(messed around with deliberatly left brush strokes and thin layer of wash to try and get a membrane look for the wings)





Dithered a bit with how to do the sabres- was going to do claw colour with green lightning but eventually decided on a bone effect as I thought the lightning thing would make the model too 'busy'.

Wow....my wallet fainted. Nice colors! Really pops.

Would love to see more.

I like! Awesome job on the membranes.

I absolutely love your paint scheme, in fact so much I think I want to copy it!!
Could you please tell me how you've painted the various parts? It would be very helpful.
Also what is the name of those egg things? I can't quite make it out.

rodgers37 wrote:I absolutely love your paint scheme, in fact so much I think I want to copy it!!
Could you please tell me how you've painted the various parts? It would be very helpful.
Also what is the name of those egg things? I can't quite make it out.

Scheme is fairly simple so here goes from white primer.

Skin
Heavy Biel-tan wash
Ustabi bone layer leaving recess showing (thinned for areas like wing membranes)

Fleshy bits (tervigon sack, wings etc)
as skin but finish with druchii violet wash (for the wings I went back and removed the excess with a dry brush and kept direction)

Carapace
Caliban Green basecoat
Progressive layers of highlight (larger amounts with first colour) Kabalite Green, Warboss Green, Moot Green.

Claws/weapons
Basecoat Stegadon Green
Highlight Russ Grey

Eyes- Averland sunset
Teeth - Palid Wychflesh
Tounge - crimson wash (can't remember name) over white primer
Base - Mournfang Brown with tyrant skull drybrush and dead grass.

Think that covers it!

The eggs are Mega-bloks Plasma Hatchers.

Thanks for the comments.

Another night shift another painting session;

Last of the Biovore brood (bringing them up to 3)



A few more spore mines



3 Ripper swarms



and the Dakkafex


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Thats all for now.

Another week another update

Painted a Ravener




Finished another 8 gargoyles bringing the brood up to 10




and Lastly a simple Parasite of Mortex conversion (a little top heavy even with greenstuff packed in base)




Not hating painting them but have to stop putting it off and paint a butt load more termagants now.

One model to add this update the Tyrannofex, bought this model with every intention of using him with the rupture cannon as a backfield firepower support but with changes to how things work in 6th I decided instead to build him with the acid spray for a more of a walking support role.





Cheers for now

I really love how the paintscheme came out on your nids. And boy do you have a TON of nids. Any story behind these guys yet?

I really like your paint scheme.

You seem to be painting your models with extraordinary speed! Is this because the scheme is simple or you're just adept at painting hordes?

Brotheralexos wrote:I really love how the paintscheme came out on your nids. And boy do you have a TON of nids. Any story behind these guys yet?

No real story as yet (and to be fair I'm not that good at fluff bar coming up with a name for them)

deathstreak2000 wrote:I really like your paint scheme.

You seem to be painting your models with extraordinary speed! Is this because the scheme is simple or you're just adept at painting hordes?

A bit of both, I have a rule where I won't play with a model till it's painted this has lead to me being a reasonably fast painter and coming up with schemes that are quick to do (scheme is a couple of posts up) . Oh and I have a job where I can paint on night shifts which gives me some good quality painting time.

Quick update - Zoanthropes!

With 6th giving psykers a new breath of life I wanted some of these beasties in my army both for thier powers and to add to the amount of shadows in the warp on the field. Unfortunately this meant dealing with finecast (those with a love of GW should gloss over the next bit and look at the pretty pictures), F$%^&&G bag of S&*£e washed it (don't believe the hype this stuff is usually covered in paint repellant mould release), re-based on rocks (out of 4, 3 had stress fractures at the part that joins to the base), pinned parts together (warping and random flash means very little chance of a part which remotely fits without a lot of work) and filled gaps with liquid greenstuff. Primed then painted and found that my washing hadn't been as thorough as I thought as areas just wouldn't take paint, The texture of Finecast is also random and it is just horrible to paint I'd hate to try to do anything other than a basic paintjob on it (the surface is just so inconsistent even across one model).

Rant over time for pics!







cheers!

Jeez, you are just pumping these models out! Great work!

Wow, even with all the setbacks you mentioned, those Zoanthropes look great. You just have to play a game with thse nids!

Awesome looking models!

Just curious, have the new GW washes/shades ever glossed over when they dry? I seem to have the problem with Agrax Earthshade.

Keep the updates coming!!

Brotheralexos wrote:Wow, even with all the setbacks you mentioned, those Zoanthropes look great. You just have to play a game with thse nids!

As I mentioned in an earlier post I have a thing where I won't play with it till it's painted, I'm getting close but still have to paint at least 10 more gargoyles, another tervigon, a tyrant guard and 60 or so termegants. Should get this done in a month or so depending on time I get.

Mortalitas wrote:Awesome looking models!

Just curious, have the new GW washes/shades ever glossed over when they dry? I seem to have the problem with Agrax Earthshade.

Keep the updates coming!!

I haven't noticed any glossing but did have one occasion where I hadn't shook the shade for long enough and it left milky white spots when it dried (that was agrax earthshade come to think of it).

Sir, that is a staggeringly large project, and a sweet scheme, and you're doing a damn fine job of it. Keep up the good work! I love seeing non-standard Tyranids!

Another nightshift another update Warriors come out to play!

Bought these cheap pre built and thin paint so only had to base them and respray them before painting this led to a slight loss of detail but overall they came out ok.






Cheers! tonight I attempt to knuckle down and paint more termegants.

Wow, that is a lot of painted Nids. Paint scheme is simple but strikingly effective

Thanks Guys here are photos of the finished 1750







Oh and everything up to now.







Also had my first game with them vs mates Eldar Corsair list which ended up with him conceding turn 4 after a beautiful enfeeble to Toughness 1 Biospore blast combo took his uber unit clean off the board and a Dakkafex mauling of his war walkers.

Good work, your efforts really have paid off! The army looks fantastic!

Whoa! That is one great army!

And it only took you about 3 months... I wish I had that motivation or time lol.

Amazing work man.
I was wondering why you choose that army list. Especially the biovores. So rarely played nowadays. What are you reasons for your unit choices?

Wow that's a lot of 'nids. The scheme looks nice, I like those two shades of green you have going on there. You seem to be churning out more 'nids than the manufactorums on Mars churn out the Imperium's gear. Great work, I am rather fond of it. Always liked the 'nids, got the Space Hulk ones under my bed somewhere, might be time to get them out and start painting.

 Freytag93 wrote:
Amazing work man.
I was wondering why you choose that army list. Especially the biovores. So rarely played nowadays. What are you reasons for your unit choices?

Biovores are awesome for many reasons but the biggest is barrage sniping you can use them to remove threats to your other units from the crowds like plasma, melta etc. When you combine with other abilities like enfeeble you have a unit that can decimate multi wound models. All this at a bargain basement price.

The Tyrannofex is a big roadblock a 2+ T6 nasty that draws fire but is still hard to put down (even more so if you cast endurance on it) the acid spray isn't a bad weapon and comes in handy for rooting out opponents from cover.

Dakkafex and Dakkatyrant are just naughty 12 TL Str6 shoots each with Old adversary giving a reroll ones to wound and penetrate makes them great at anti-infantry and light vehicle killing whilst losing pratically nothing in CC if they need to.

Quick Update: Still finding life absorbed by other things but found time to build and paint a Trygon also started painting 20 devourer armed termegants and built 10+ bases of rippers. Anyhow here is the big beastie







Thanks for Looking.

Another week another update this time Devilgaunts!











Thanks for looking!

Rippers! small update for small minis 10 ripper bases.











Thanks for looking!

Jesus, you really have an attention span I truly envy. I've been looking for a new scheme for my 'nids, and I think I just found a really good one xD. Thank you very much for all the pictures, keep updating this page!!