'nids part 144 - TO DONE! The Four Horsemen of the Ferron Apocalypse - 'DEATH'

Aah Death, my old friend. He's turned out quite well too.

As you can see there is some patination on the top of his arms for the Chameleonic skin, which works, as does his faux ribbed feeder tentacles. I had thought to have the extra veins/tubes on his arms glowing green but for some reason went with red. In so doing he does stand a little apart from his three brothers.

The others all have some green on them which ties them into a group, I may change this but until then I like just a little individuality from him.

Also cool is the Tamiya Clear Red X-27. I don't know if the Citadel technical equivalent is as good but if you havent got any X-27 in your life then you need it. Can't wait to see him taking cover beind a Capillary Tower and see him blend in.

I'm keen to pick up a Deathleaper next and slowly get the four remaining Lictors for the Leviathan Data Slates. I may have mentioned but Throne of Skulls in March was won by someone running the Deathleaper Assassin data slate so it may be worth a punt. But I love the lictor model so I'll be looking forward to finding a way to convert them just so they're each a bit unique.

Big blue tick!

'nids part 143 - TO DONE! The Four Horsemen of the Ferron Apocalypse - 'PESTILENCE'

Pestilence looks like a whole other beastie now he's got his 'toxic' going on. 

I'd originally planned to blacken the edges of the yellow flock, to show it dieing in the toxic miasma given off by the Venomthrope. I may still do it, and perhaps leave a black slime trail behind the creature. I'm not so sure how he's supposed to move, does it hop, slither, glide?

It'll be interesting to have some mobile cover, potentially a new way to play, surging the horde forwards under it's cloud of protection, should be fun.

Now, how to transport the little fella...

And the obligatory big blue tick for getting it done!

'nids part 142 - TO DONE! The Four Horsemen of the Ferron Apocalypse - 'FAMINE'

Famine is complete! 

As you can see the toxic green has made a huge difference, he's clearly gearing up to cast Catalyst [according to my psychic power markers]. Granted his little support stem looks a bit rubbish, although it does look like a little fountainsupporting him. The reflected glow on the bottom of his tail is quite effective too.

However, in some of these views the stem disappears so maybe it's not too bad.

The Vernidas clear varnish has had 24 hours to shrink down, I'll keep adding successive layers to eventually have the crater filled. I've also noticed that once it cures it does manage to mute the coulours a little bit [although these have had a little auto-enhance to bring out the contrast already ;) ]

It'll be fun to run two of these with the new Psychic rules, alhtough two single units give me 4 Warp Charge to add to the pool whereas a unit of two gives me only 2?

Here's the big blue tick for getting it done, even if it's not on my To Do List, the rest of the 'Horsemen' will be coming over the next three days :0

'nids part 141 - Yet more WiPs, of Venom/Zoan-thropes and Lictors

Famine gets it's highlights too. This will, by far, change the most once I start adding the SFX. I still need to paint up the tentacles in the reclamation pool though.

Looking forward to using this guy, I measured him and he will glide harmlessly underneath the Skyshiled, that's if I ever put it in a list. I'm enjoying the Bastion a bit more, for the benefits of the Quad Gun but now it has Hull Points it may well end up more of a liability being glanced to death...

Death starts to take shape too.

I'm looking to add a bit of 'spotting' on the shoulders eventually, as part of it's chameleon skin nature. Nothing crazy just to try and break up the shape a little.

I'm starting to dig this Lictor, I really want to try out that datalsate...

    

Pestilence moves on too. In truth it's probably my least favorite of the four. I'm convinced his tentacles will and I'm not sure how to transport him safely either.

Still, I'm looking forward to taking some mobile cover into battle. I may consider dropping a Fortification to do so.

    

'nids part 140 - Dakkafex goes to 'War'

Bone white highlights added to War

I always seem to think the hard work is done at this stage. The turquoise is a more controlled process, therefore takes more time. The Bonewhite is often less tidy because the lighter colours are more forgiving but they usually take up more surface area so probably take just as long. Although it's less precise there are usually far more fiddly areas, lumps and bumps and I think I leave far more washed areas for shadows than I used to do. Thus the lighting is pretty uniform throughout when I know I should have taken advantage of my shading

    

And I still have all the hard black claw bits and flesh bits and blood/glow bits so it's far from over, just the end is coming into sight.

Dark Angels - Land's Speeder Typhoon Pattern

Despite all the nid activity to the contrary my Typhoon Pattern of 'Land's Speeder' has been in progress [and progressing] for a while now. I've been working on the metals in much the same way as my Drop Pod [also very much 'in progress'] but needed to tone it down as I don't want shiny metallics. To get to this stage was quite a lot of Tin Bitz, then about four highlights followed by two lots of washes.

This may well be OTT for the end result, it looks much richer in the flesh metal, but I am going to add in the Verdigris too so who knows where it will end up and how much of all I've achieved so far will be obscured? So, I have to admit I'm putting off doing it, as I'm still not sure it will remain the 'dark' Ravenwing I'd hoped to capture.

Once I get my 'four horseman of the Hive Fleet' done - Dakkafex, Zoie, Venom and Lictor, I'll be back on this as a priority, I think?

Tactical Objective Cards - just so you know!

And we all thought the limited edition run of the Munitorum Edition of 2,000 was limited. This week I've been trying to get a couple of packs of the Tactical Objective Cards from a large GW store and it seems like they've sold out. Loads of packs of Psychic Power cards but no Tactical Objective ones. Having spoken to the manager it transpires there seems to be no sign of them until July at the earliest! He doesn't know why they're still available on the site, perhaps HQ is hoarding them for their own games.

It seems GW underestimated the appeal, or how much of an impulse buy a £5 item in GW can be, to totally change the way you play. Good luck finding some if you hadn't already made a pre-order.