'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.

#MESBG Middle Earth Army of the Dead - Big Build and Base TO DONE!

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer and this time it's 'off list'. In amongst 39 Goblin Town goblins my gaming crew have been attempting to finish off some of our late-friend Scott's unfinished armies. Some things weren't built, some were part done and others had basic bases that a bit more effort would make them look like a coherent force. I had been volunteered to take on his MSEBG Army of the Dead. Initially it was a box of so many figures I didn't even count them. But when I did I identified:

• 9 cavalry
• 8 infantry practically finished with highlights
• 24 infantry half-done - Aethermatic Blue contrast, no highlights
• 9 infantry stuck to bases, but unprimed and with shields unattached

That's 50 models in total and somehow I was fine batching the lot. I'd had to base a couple of other MESBG figures, so what's 42 more? Having done the bases I added a bit of turquoise glow to make them a little more ethereal and more Aethermatic Blue and then I had to decide on highlights. The 8 almost finished ones had been done by Liam for Scott and he'd added a bit of cream highlights, which I liked the yellow next to the turquoise, but even so Aethermatic Blue on it's own looked great. But I felt a couple more highlights would be the effort Scott's army deserved, no cut corners! 

Some were even missing bits, so spare arms had to be sources and I am kicking myself now that I did not photograph these in their original state. At the very least I'd have a record of what day I started them as it took no more than 2 weeks to get them all done

These were the 9 I did from scratch. It was a bit inconvenient to go back to the beginning stage when the rest had been done through to varnish but I pushed through. Varnishing [and photographing] so many figures was a challenge in itself. However, the results in the next post are worth it.

Another Great Big Wooden 'BIG BUILD' Stamp of Approval and a Great Big Wooden 'BIG BUILD BASE' Stamp of Approval.