Tyranids

Friend of mine started playing 40K too. Since he kind of lacks the time to paint an entire army, I offered to do it for him. Queue painting tons of Tyranid troop. Luckily the non troops are rather interesting to paint.

Hive guard
Like how this one turned out.

Hive Tyrant
Works well, the carapace needs a bit more pop though, working on that.

Warrior
Turned out well. 

Venomthrope

Looks ok, but still lacks something. Carapace might need more work.

Zoanthrope
Looks ok again, the lower body is a but... odd somehow.

Oasis

 

Added more greenery, just need to paint the palm trees.

 

 And it's next to finished state.

Oasis

I have been thinking about making an oasis for our desert board for ages and finally decided to give it a go.

First made a foam base, cut out a whole in the middle,  glue a sheet of paper underneath and there we have the basic form. Ignore the tree trunk for now.

Then I had to decide how to fill up all the space on it. A quick trip to the floral shop got me some cheap plastic plants, a bunch of silk leaves and some spikey things which could act very well as some sort of cactus.. The spikey things have some plastic plants stuff glued on top, some other plastic plants are pinned into the softboard as vegetation.

The silk leaves were cut up to be palm fronds. The tree trunk mentioned earlier is a thin stick, bent with steam, wrapped with paper tape, then some thin string wrapped up and then finally covered in a tissues, wetted with water thinned woodglue
  

 Around now attaching the fronds to the trunk are giving me a real hassle and my local gaming shop miraculously could order some Pegasus palm trees within  a few days. So I ordered those, 3 palm trees, lots less hassle. This looked about right, time to get the base desert-fied.

So glued the palm stands on. Then blended them in with enough woodglue and but a thin coat over the entire base. Put basing sand on and let it dry. After that spray painted it black and painted the 'water' regal blue.  So far so good, now I need to start rememberting the colour scheme we used on our big desert gaming board.

Devilfish part x

Some more progress on the Devilfish, Crisis suit and some fire warriors.

First the Devilfish:

The Crisis Suit:

 

 

And finally some work on Firewarriors. These guys are the smalles but giving me the most hassle.

This test model is with heavy deep shading mainly in the upper leg armor. I abandoned the triangle like camo on legs cause it make it all way to messy. Instead I just made 1 'band' of leg armor white.

Comparison between the light shadding and the heavy shading.  Still not sure which to take. The photos don't do the light shading justice.

And meanwhile YET another test model completed with base and all.

Devilfish painting

Masked the triangles, spray painted, tore of the mask. Then realized I'd have to remask them for the lightblue edge *facepalm*. That's what you get for being impatient and wanting to see the result.

On a sidenote, I am rather amazed by the Army Painter spray paint this time. Even coat, cover well, no hassle. Their white spray totally ruined 1 model of mine, but this one is very good.

With some of the lightblue border stripes added.

Crisis suit test

 

A test paint scheme on a Crisis suit.

Tau test pattern

Just a test paint on some old scratch build model attempt. Trying to find a nice camo scheme for my Tau.