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.

What is this Tau heresey!!

A friend of mine gave me his Tau stuff and I really needed to paint something else then Terminators.

The entire look of Tau vehicles is so very different, more fluid. This also means more sanding, filling and all that. Here's the first pic of the Devilfish:

More sanding, filling and wondering about painting schemes still to do.

Landspeeder

And while all the terminators, bikers and Landraider need finishing I decided to sprue up my Ravenwing with a Landspeeder.

Magnetized for regular, Tornado (?) and Master of the Ravenwing fit.



Closeup of the cockpit (little fuzzy)



And this is how far I got:

Asmodai

Had to look a round to find this model quite a bit. Finally found one in the discount bin somewhere :P. Librarians aren't that awesome for DA, but the model is just nice.



Not too happy with the banner, will have to mess with it a bit more.

Bike Progress

Bikes are kind of done, now all I need to do are the riders.

New paintings and repaintings

I didn't really like how the FW venerable dread turned out (the top part at least) so I spend a while cleaning that up entirely.

It was a pain the get the basecoat off. That basecoat turned out to be reason it looked bad because it was rough and not smooth at all. Lots of Muscle ovencleaner and old toothbrush scrubbing later it was ready for a respray.

It turned out better this time, with some painting it now looks like this:



Also my Ravenwing squad needed some more bikes, WIP pic:

Terrain Board

Only took us about half a year but we finally finished the terrain boards. We had a few dismal failures, but once we got the colours right, it went pretty smoothly. There is prob more room for improvement with detailing (like the skull pits) but good enough for now.

Updates

Deathwing Company Commander Belial.

Deathwing, 1st squad


Deathwing, 7nd squad


Deathwing, Landraider


Ravenwing, 1st squad bikes

Ravenwing, 3rd squad Attackbike


3rd Company, Command squad


6th Company, Dreadnaught

New terrain

Been quiet a bit since the great Belial Conversion. I finally decided to do a bit more and make some terrain craters for the new battleboard.

The crater technique I found somewhere (Prob TMG or Terragenesis).
And this page has some nice arid colour advice.

So we start out with the materials:

Tinfoil cake/mini pie forms, plaster, sand, some old cd's and the inevitable woodglue.


I cut off the thick edge of the tinfoil, formed a crater like shape (helps to form it over a round form to get the crater depth right) and then fill it with plaster to give it solidity. Wait for it to dry. Zzzzz...


Glue it on to an old cd, cover the edges with some woodlgue/sand paste so the crater edges form nice and smooth against the cd. Wait it for it dry... more zzzzzzz.


Spraypaint it black.


And use some paint colour advice from the above mentioned pages. Basically a lot of drybrushing various shades of brown and yellow for the sand, grey and white for the crater itself.