'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.

'nids part 376 - Barbgaunt and Von Ryan's Leapers - Big Build - TO DONE!

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #BuildingWarhammer on my additional Barbgaunts and Von Ryan's Leapers. Yes, much like the Tyranids themselves this is an endless swarm of miniatures. Just when you think you've painted the last one you have more. It might be the last thing I want to do, to add more to my Tyranid painting list, but however challenging it can be it's better to get it done altogether.

I'll be doing bits and bobs on my Termagants and Neurogaunts, while bringing these up to the same stage. I've already acknowledged that they may be tedious but they each create variety within that tedium and can help to break it up. In a similar vein I decided to be a little more creative with their basing to help differentiate the VRLs from the first batch I'm finishing. I just added more slate to the Barbgaunts too, they're quite difficult to make look different. Or, at least I spent a lot of time thinking about it, got nowhere and decided to crack on regardless. 

Anyway, another Great Big Wooden 'BIG BUILD' Stamp of Approval.