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So far so good! The yellow looks good, but the blue/white one is my favourite. Very curious to see how you base them.

Thanks SBG,

The World Eater is my favourite thus far.... just means I have some work to do on the other two to get them to same level

What colour is the shoulder trim on the IF going be?

I think the main tone of the yellow is pretty much there, just a few highlights to make those high points pop.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
What colour is the shoulder trim on the IF going be?

I think the main tone of the yellow is pretty much there, just a few highlights to make those high points pop.

EDC

I'm going with pre heresy colours, so at this point going with black trim. Might change it up if I finally get round to starting a Fist army.

Update for this week, got a couple of sessions in so there is actually some stuff to see. photos are a bit funky on the colour, but you get the gist.

Armours are done, most of the work on the bolters is complete and just a bit more highlights and work to be done on eye lenses, skulls, penants etc.

I'm also looking at some tutorials on how to do weathering so I can do a bit on these guys, and then some decals to finish... I think they are coming along nicely!





The one I am happiest with at this point is the EC, possibly looks best because I have painted the scheme a few times before, so practice does make you better, who knew

Thanks for checking in, should be a good update next week

Hello all,

Been good progress since my last update. The three models are pretty much done!

This week I finished off the little bits of skull and pennants, had a crack at weathering with both a sponge and doing other bits black and metal with a brush, finished off the lenses, applied some decals and had a crack at some squiggles (following Knightley's blog is rubbing off).

Overall I'm pretty happy with the look of all three, there are some things that worked really well, and some things that I need to improve on. I am happy because I have increased my techniques in the painting skill set I am building up.

One thing I will definitely be investing in is decal fix solutions... before this the only time I had done decals is on big flat tank and helicopter models, with no curve... I found the decals onto the shoulder pads rather annoying to get right and the symbols aren't great, but passable. So when I start doing more marine stuff, I definitely want some decal solution.... or just go freehand

Here is the latest pics:






So to finish off I need to get hold of some Imperial Fist decals, and base the three of them. I have a idea on my head for a bit of a "signature base" theme for these three, so we will see how it works this week!

Should be a final update with completed models and bases in the near future

Nice! almost at the end and right before Christmas to boot!

Yeah I got the timing of getting them painted up pretty much bang on. Only a couple of weeks until I can give them.

Almost finished the bases and got decals for the imperial fist, so update on the weekend will have the completed marines and some WIP updates from my next Hive Fleet brood.

Watch this space

Looking good. I think the EC is my fav.

The sponge weathering looks really good.

EDC

Thanks EDC.

Never done weathering before, so was a bit nervous. I think I have overdone it a little bit in some places but overall effect looks nice enough for a first effort. The bits I really thought came out nice were little brushed on bits with the metal showing through.

Hi all,

The Christmas marines are all finished! I got hold of some Imperial Fist decals and applied them, and then I did up some bases. The genestealer heads on the base are my "signature" for these three models, green and red to represent Christmas, and tyranid to represent that I have done them might be total cheeseball but I like it

Learned a lot painting these three up and gained some more skills (weathering, lenses and squiggles) and insights on the way, plus some confidence to keep giving new stuff a crack and continuing to improve. Plus I may start a secondary army one day and marines could be on the list.

Here are some final photos:









This week I will be jumping back on the Hive Fleet Ngaro bandwagon and as the hive tyrant was the last model I did I have to do a troops choice and I have gone with more genestealers, so will get them painted up this week I reckon.

Speaking of the Hive Fleet, I had them all out today so I could work out where I was up to and plan my next steps to finish it off. So I took some photos of the fleet:

Completed so far:




Really happy with the overall look I've got and the progress I have made is good. So what I have left to go is a tyrannocyte, gargoyles and 2 hive guard in boxes, plus this group of misfits:



Venomthropes and Neurothrope are up after the genestealers, then Exocrine and so on. So I'm not going to get this all done before end of the year, but it will be early next year when this big push of painting everything I own is finished!

Thanks for checking in!

Such a nice looking army man! very cohesive and such good scheme!

The finished Xmas marines look great.

It's always good to see army shots too, your force is looking wicked. It must be a great motivator too.

EDC

@ Knightley - Thanks, that means a lot coming from someone who has followed me since the beginning and produces some stunning work yourself

@EDC - Yes very much a motivator! Sometimes painting up troops is a pain, but you see the overall look and its all worth it.

Got started on the genestealers tonight... good progress already!

Love your painting style, cant wait to see what you come out with next!

@Master Azalle - Thanks for stopping by, always nice to get compliments!

When I had the army out I took some more shots of the bigger bugs because frankly the photos I have of them on the front page are pretty average, so over the next while I'll be getting the newer photos up as well.

Here is an example using the Swarmlord, and i think you will all agree the new photo looks waaaaaaay better, because it's no longer just a fuzzy blob

Old photo:


New photo:

Evening all,

Been working away on the genestealer squad and it is coming along nicely:




Only a couple of bits and pieces to do on them before they get varnished and based, so well on the way to knock out another squad before Christmas, then I will move onto neurothrope and venomthropes.

Thanks for stopping by.

Evening all,

I have been doing some editing of the front page to stream line it a bit and get much better photos of the models there, as I have decided I don't need to try and show every model I do, rather I'll focus on some of my better models that have something a bit unique about them, like the swarmlord with the bone sabres, and the lictors with the chamelonic skin effects I've painted onto them. This is obviously a work in progress but will be better for people looking at the first post to get an idea of what's in here. While I was doing this I updated the army photo and while I looked through a bunch of the army shots I took the other day and came across a couple I thought I'd share here... because I can

This first one is the Tervigon with a brood of termagants clumped in front of her. When I saw this photo it reminded me of the picture in the codex and also highlighted really nicely the effect I was going for with the scheme looking like swarming insects.

****really sorry this is displaying on it's side... I even tried rotating the source photo before upload but no matter what I did it kept coming out like this!



This second shot caught my eye because of the focus, there is many little nids running out in front and in the background you can kind of see the big beasts coming up from behind to do some big damage and keeping the broods in line.



Anyway, they appealed to me so thought I'd share... cheers

PS: Genestealers varnished, so just the basing to do!

Nice. Genestealers are looking good.

EDC

A chittering swarm! So cool as a group man!

Thanks EDC and Knightley

Genestealers have had their basing glued on, just need to paint them up and done!

The genestealer brood I have been working on is all finished!

I like how they have come up, especially how the faces look like they have war paint, these are the Hive Fleet Ngaro bred "shock troopers" as opposed to the pure strain infiltrator brood that I did up earlier on.




I will need go around the bottom part of the bases with another hit of paint as it is a bit thin and patchy in places, but that is easily fixed when I do the bases on the next models.

I have primed up the two venomthropes and my neurothrope and they are currently sitting on my painting table to get done up next, which will probably be early in the new year as I'm going away for a small get away with my family between Christmas and New Years.

So, Merry Christmas and safe and happy holidays to all my readers and dakka in general, may your Christmas be filled with grim dark hobby things!

Looking good Mad...

Merry Xmas to you too. T'is the season to do hobby!

EDC

Hi all,

Nice to see we made it through another Christmas and New Years holiday period

Quick review of 2015, which was my "Complete the army year" where I set myself the goal to finish painting up the 90 models or so I had left to do by end of the year... I got to 60, which isn't a bad effort considering there was a trip to Europe, a couple of other holidays, sport, and of course family commitments with two kids under five. I also used some time up painting up some marines and dabbling in some other stuff, so I am happy with how my 2015 went overall!

2016, I'm planning on finishing off the remaining models, and then start growing the swarm (of course!) looking at buying a hive crone, the new combo pack and what ever else might show up with a rumoured new codex. To grow, a hive fleet must consume, so I will be actually getting the army out on the table in the near future, I'm just sussing out size and stuff now for my first hit out. I'm also going to do some dabbling in other models, as I have a ten man Chaos Marine squad to do up for my brother.

So, bring on 2016 I hope you stay tuned! This is the "Consume and Grow" year for my Hive Fleet.

Ok, so that's the New Year stuff out of the way... straight into it:

For Christmas my brother gave me this after he went to England and visited warhammer world (lucky )



I'm going to get this one commission painted to as high a standard as I can get, as I want it to be a display piece, but if I ever get an Imperial Fist army going, he can be the centre piece to that army

I've also made a start on the first 2016 models for the Hive Fleet, a Neurothrope and couple of venomthropes. My plan is to get the venomthropes painted up before I hit the table for my first game in a couple of weeks time. I haven't played since fourth, so really looking forward to getting back into game mode!

Only the blues done so far, and the claws and teeth need their blue wash, but it's a start. I've also got something a bit different planned for the spike coming up out of the neurothrope which will be similar to the lightning effects I did on the swarmlord sabres.



I'm going to get onto the greens and carapace shortly.

Thanks for stopping by!

It's been a great year following your blog seeing your army grow and prosper. I look forward to seeing it grow and consume going forward

Do you know what your first game will be against?

Consume and grow is a great 'motto' for a Nid army.

Looking forward to see what you deliver in 2016.

EDC

Thanks team, I'm looking forward to seeing what I produce myself, got some good plans in my head, but you know what they say about plans

@Knightley - Either Tau or Chaos. Looking at a 1000 point game first up and then go from there.

Got some carapace work done on the models on the painting table today, so just the greens and detailing to go.

Evening all,

Pretty productive weekend hobbywise.

Got the models to this point:

Need to finish the black detailing on the carapace, purple eyes and do some goblin green highlights on the venomthropes tentacles and venom sacs etc... oh and some lightning effects on the purple thats on the Neurothrope! Then obviously varnish and basing.



Also built one of the finecast Hive Guard that have been sitting in my to do pile for a while.

Have confirmed a game or two at 1000 points for this Sunday, so looking forward to getting Ngaro out on the table for the first time

thanks for stopping by

Oh wow, you powered through those guys! they look ace man! Good luck with the games btw, don't get disheartened if it doesn't go as well as you hope, learning your army can be a tough process

It's amazing how fast you can get through models when you have a day free from kids and work and stuff

I'm pretty stoked with how they have come up as well... only bummer is the plastic putty I used to fill the join on the venomthropes carapace sacs has shrunk back a bit so a bit of a line there in real life, I've got some liquid green stuff for future use as I hear it's a bit better for what I need.

Heh, I'm not going to get disheartened at all, I'll just be happy that I have an army on the table and painted up and really looking forward to having a crack at playing for the first time in ages... I'm also NOT taking a flyrant as my HQ, taking a tervigon instead as I figure she will be pretty decent at the lower point end.

Looking good. Any idea what army you'll be facing off against?

EDC