Finally, a project several years in the making has burst forth from the cupboard of shame - yipping and dribbling with oddly adorable grins, they burst forth onto the battlefield ready to tear some imperial beakies limb from limb!
A few years ago I posted a hive tyrant and then a few years later a carnifex. I've been playing Warhammer Fantasy 5th edition for several years now, and do love the old game I grew up with. Back in those days, 2nd edition was in full swing, but I couldn't afford to play a second game - the price or a new starter set was way out of reach, but I still spent hours staring at the old models. Actually I remember at about age 10 spending an afternoon with a piece of tracing paper building a picture of a cool space marine force by tracing out a range of different terminators and marines! Anyway, I also wanted some tyranids. I collected these over a few years, but about 6 months ago finally got a little inspiration and picked up the termagants and warriors to really get things started.
After playing so much fantasy, I'm no stranger to a huge pile of old metal slag. A bit of building work and an undercoat and they were ready to go. I find the trick to pai ting in a second edition style is generally to start with your brightest colour and then highlight that. These warriors were given a few coats of whatever you call Blood Red these days and then highlighted with s0me oranges to really get the colour as hard as possible. Love the metal warriors too. They're so different I design to the Space Crusade type plastic ones that they would have passed as something else altogether! You need to have a venom cannon too!
As a side point I should probably also mention the scenery as I built that too. Cliffs are the thing of the day and were in abundance back then - as was flock ... so both were built and used liberally. I made them stackable so for photos built a big pile of them to try to fill in the back. At some point I'd like to do a painting to fill in the open sky, bit for now a furry white blanket is masquerading as clouds.
The classic carnifex is a must - as we're a number of termagants and genestealers. Actually the old metal hunter-slayers came from my brother who got them from someone else and they were already painted. They matched my scheme so well, I decided not to strip them and just kept the 90s paint as it was. At some point I will tidy them up a bit.
The hormagaunts were the most difficult thing to paint in the arms - lots of pointy arms on there! I do love the old design though. You can just imagine them going to town with those ferocious looking spring loaded stabby-arms. Love the long lobe type heads too. Actually these are probably the models I deviated more from the official scheme of the day on.
The genestealers were painted in a single 24 hour period. I tried to keep them pretty classic looking and used a bit of drybrushing to speed them along. Their bodies were given a solid coat of Vallejo dark prussian blue mixed 50/50 with Royal Purple as a nice saturated base to work on. I gave them a quick drybrush of this same colour with a little white in it. I then painted transparent red in all the bits that were to be pink and slowly built them up largely by drybrushing vallejo magenta with ever higher amounts of white in the mix.
The army had their first outing today in a few skirmishes. Next up might be the old zoanthrope, although more terrain also looks like a possibility.
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| Genestealers break from cover to ambush a Sisters of Battle patrol |
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