'nids part 378 - Leviathan Tyranids - Basecoats

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on the remains of my Leviathan box set Tyranids. That is 20 Termagants, something I am convinced will break me. I'm certain I recall just how hard this many can be to paint.

And yet I somehow believe adding 11 Neurogaunts into the mix will make it somehow more achievable... I mean it is not. But I guarantee I will feel a damn sight worse if I finished the Termagants and then throw in another 11 gribblies.

So if I'm all in with 31 models then I might as well the extra 3 Von Ryan's Leapers from Combat Patrol.

AND, 5 Barbgaunts too. You may recall these almost broke me as well.

But I have timings for these and I'll soon have timings for the Termagants and Neurogaunts which should provide me with a timescale. Once I have that it makes the whole process that much more manageable. 

Initially getting these basecoats done felt like such a retrograde step - like it was so far from completion. Yet each step, bone, blue and red has been achievable with some concerted effort and focus. The Soft Tone and Strong Tone wash will be relatively straightforward and then it's the highlights that will be the true test. A test of patience and repetition that hopefully I can overcome.

And just as I acknowledge the value in painting all of these concurrently, however overwhelming such large batches to paint present we get this:

Kill Team Typhon from Warhammer Community

Granted we knew it was coming. But I thought it was a few pieces of terrain and 5 Raveners. But there are multiple copies of each and the big tower. Not to mention 10 Hormagaunts and a base of Rippers! So it would appear I now have to get this and paint them all for AoP too! If I'm focused it just might be possible, so much for 'What's on my palette?'

'nids part 377 - Leviathan Tyranids - WHITE BACKGROUND PICS ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer and after the red background pics come the white background pics. Although this is somewhat cream, maybe I had the wrong settings 😣

Nevermind, they still look pretty cool and the colours are vibrant enough.

I love the Neurolids so much. Almost completely useless but so cool!

Winged Prime

Von Ryan's Leapers

Barbgaunts

'nids part 376 - Leviathan Tyranids - TO DONE! 🔴

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Leviathan Tyranids and they are TO DONE! There's a couple of reasons for these - they're on my list, they make up most of a combat patrol an I hope the bulk of Leviathan will be this year's Armies On Parade in-store.

But I do love the Neurotyrant and Neurolids and I'm still utterly convinced they look the right scale for Adeptus Titanicus/Legions Imperialis. Some home brew rules would make them playable I think.

I love them against the red background - the orange glowing brain works so much better.

It's not perfect in real life but these pics look pretty cool to me.

I'd love to have loads of these. I now they're practically spore mines but they're so much cooler looking and look great next to a Warlord Titan I have on my painting table. 

There's just something about a lot of these sculpts that makes the scale seem subtly different compared to older Tyranids.

Sadly he's not actually in the Combat Patrol but I have seen him used in a few battle reports and he has such an impact for Shadows in the Warp. I quite fancy using him at some point, if we ever player 'big' 40k.

Of course that means I need to buy a codex and that might just get one use before the next edition renders it obsolete! 😂

Anyway, the Winged Prime. I was never convinced of the pose.

Luckily I have 2 more from the introductory Combat Patrol magazine to play around with the pose and try to do something more 'airborne'.

Obviously we're talking about something that will happen within the next 5 years, if I'm lucky!

Von Ryan's Leapers are next.

Cool little fellas, they could be in Titanicus, just short of a Warhound in height.

They have so much detail to paint though, so I'm not looking forward to the next 3, but we'll see.

The Barbgaunts too were hard work and then additional 5 will be yet more of a challenge.

But they look so much better than I expected they would.

I love the 'rainbow' of colours these guys create.

I will be really excited to see 10 of these though, and 6 Leapers. They'll all look so impressive with the Screamer Killers, Norn Emissary, my VSG and a few of the more recent monsters and the Warriors too, they've never seen a parade in their new finery.

There are a few things to include alongside just the Leviathan models, so it should be a fun display. 

And another bunch of Great Big Wooden Stamps of Approval.