Why Speed Painting? More Termagants and Warriors of Course!

Since I am huge Blood Angles fan, here are some WIP Tyranids! I have never played these guys, so I have no idea why I am madly painting the army. As I think about it, I don't think I ever played the first edition tyranids that started this for me. So why all the speed painting? I have no idea. My rationalization is that I am really practicing my speed painting skills by working on the gazillion tyranids necessary for a list. The problem is that now I feel compelled to have a list. A side effect of this is that all of these tyranids are filling up my shelf space.

Back to the most important thing, gun color. I tried foundation yellow and foundation brown on these guys, and think I will standardize on the three colors I have painted so far. Brown for the weird christmas tree guns, yellow for the warrior guns, and orange on whatever gun the regular gants have.

Hormagaunt and 1st Edition Termagant

I finally glued together a whole host of termagants and finally based my hormagaunts today. While gluing the brain pack things onto the hormaguants I decided to experiment with two old first edition termagants. I spent about 2 minutes on each miniature, not including time spent using a hair dryer, or time spent basing. (yeah... the basing is pretty bad on these guys!) I don't exactly hate these old minis, but I can't put my finger on what I don't like about them. I do have about 50 of them, so if I were serious about playing the game it would be worth simple greening them and starting over. I think the old sculpts might detract from my aesthetic appreciation for the game.

On a side note, anyone have a good color idea for the guns? I tried pink and was not thrilled, and am not digging orange that much. These are beginning to look like halloweennids to me.

Tyranids

So it is my birthday tomorrow, and on a whim I purchased a macro lens for my cannon XSI. This is my first time using it, so I took some shots of my WIP nids. I have 16 of these little guys painted up and ready for basing. The carnifex still needs his bone treatment but I could not resist a photo. My mycetic spore got some blood painted on just to see if I could do it. I am going to have to do a better job painting now that all of the flaws are so readily apparent. This camera might do wonders to my technique!

Mycetic Spore WIP PT2

So I thought I would try a quick paint job on this guy to see if I am going the right direction. using Ron's advice to use different primer for different jobs I decided to use all the primers I had in one go!

the green stuff work is bad, but I am kind of digging the purple eggplant like coloring. In a worst case scenario, I can at least bring this to the game and not be fielding unpainted models. since the game is an unlimited tyranids pt game, I was thinking of tooling up a hive tyrant with everything possible and dropping him into the imperial lines.

Mycetic Spore WIP

So I picked up some craft supplies and decided to make some mycetic spores so I can surprise the local GW on the big tyranid battle this saturday. The thing is......basically I should have just bought a couple of gourds and called it a day. It is totally clear to me how un-talented with green stuff I am. I think the gourd-like spore thing is kind of fun, but kneading that green stuff was just painful. I wonder if I should have just used clay like my wife suggested.

I think this thing will be kind of fun when it is painted.

Tyranids Batch Painting WIP

So I decided to batch paint 16 hormogaunts, two biovores, a lictor, and some kind of brain bug this weekend. Deal lord the are so many more to paint! I am not sure if I should bother to strip any more of the old models now. I really do not like the zoanthrope, the biovores are passable, and the lictor is ok, but really do I need these old models? Does anyone like the old models? I painted up a Carnifex yesterday, and think it is vastly superior to the old metal model I have.

I tried to magnetize the carnifex using a dremel.....the result was molten goo that easily accepted the magnets. It could have easily gone the other way though, so I will not do it again!

oh the batch painting blues....ugggh!

Warpstone Challenge Winner!

It was a complete surprise that I as even entered in the competition, seeing as though I painted the store model! The store manager presented me with the trophy and the model, which was incredibly nice. I am really honored to have won. Naturally I am now planning on batch painting a bunch of bugs to match this guy, which will give me more opportunity to go wild with dead ultra-marines! I'd like to add some tau corpses as well, so I can test some color schemes.