Tyranid Hive Tyrant & Wings

Close Combat hive tyrant




The wings I purchased for him

Batrep & a rainbow

So tonight Tim and I (anthony) played our first real match, it was 2 objectives, my nids against his marines.

And now for the rainbow story. So it was raining and sunny out, it was an all around shitty day. Anyway, I go to the window and look towards Center City like I always do, and BAM!!!! HUGE ASS RAINBOW!!!

"Holy shit!," I said, "This is probably the gayest thing I've ever said, but that is one amazing ass rainbow, you guys gotta come see this thing!"
They came quickly and it was a good thing they did, the rainbow began to fade ever so slighty. I ran to get my camera and got it just as it was fading. Seriously, best rainbow ever.



Oh, and here are pics from earlier in the storm system when it was hailing outside pretty badly. The hail only lasted maybe 2 minutes, but that was a loud 2 minutes (even through 1" thick windows).






Battle Report

Seargent complete

So, update time. I've completed one more model in the free time I have these days :( This guy has 13 colors of paint on him. All I have to do is my my genesis chapter shoulder pad pieces and he's done. He has been clear coated with matte spray to prevent him from chipping, the shine is a lot more dull in person.

Back to Space Marines!

Well, in order to actually complete my Bolter and Chainsword librarium painting challenge pledge (mouthfull that is), I'm painting space marines. I have 5 completed, 5 that are red and need backpack+gun+heraldices. I will complete the painting of the bodies tonight and maybe post more pics before I go to bed. Here is what I have so far:

Update!

OMFG!!!! This is the 8th time I'm trying to post this...

Progress - Tyranids

So today I did some more tyranid work and I'm happy with the results. I don't know the name of the hive I'm painting, but it is an official hive and I think this will be a good army to help people learn to play as a strong offensive player.

Here is a picture of the detailing I'm attempting




I also figured I'd try a new trick I saw at the mall, hot wire cutting.
Now, I do not have a hot wire cutter, so I just picked a size 6 xacto blade and put it in a candle flame. Here are the results



So just to quickly go over what I did to get this clean cut and nice connection.

1. Cut a magnet into the devourer gun arm.
2. Cut a hole in the warrior torso that matched the angle and pitch of the arm magnet.
3. Put both arms in place, test fit position.
4. Applied plastic cement and super glue to the left warrior arm on both ends, sticking it in place to the gun arm (right arm).
   
5. I let it dry for 5 minutes.
6. Lit a candle.
7. Heated my blade for 10 seconds.
8. Place it in the spot shown above and pressed gently
9. Goto 7 until blade goes through arm.

At that point, since I had position the magnet very very carefully, I was able to place the arm back in place and have a near flawless reattachment, rather than having to magnetize two different arms. I like this result a lot and will do this from now on.

Warrior painting

So it is saturday, I am doing some painting today! I mixed up some liche purple with some fluid retarder, water and soap. The first application I've used (see below) appears to dark. I'm going to thin the mixture further and see what comes of it.

Tyranids

Tyranid Battleforce

After work I went and picked up a tyranid battleforce, to fill out the 3 armies that I will be bringing back to school. I always wanted to pick up one of these boxes, tyranids offer some of the easiest conversions, since they are alien bugs, nit picking isn't common. So I bring to you my first bunch of converisons on my HQ units, tyrand warriors.


The tyranid warrior above has a (checks codex) barbed strangler, it shoots barbs that explode, making it a very good ordance launcher [AP: 5, assault 1,/large blast, pinning].

This is the head on picture. I've mounted the gun on the lower arm slots and fitted those slots with magnets. What I have done since can be seen in the next couple pictures.





Here you can see what was on the model when it was spray painted. The one on the right is another warrior I have started to put together, however I have begun customizing it. On the white guy you can see I left a nub attached to the body and the arm goes to it. The other side if magnetized (see below). I set it up this way to that I could "stick" arms in there more easily, the first time the arms got stuck and I had to break them to get them off :(





If you look closely at the white guy, you can see the magnet in the bottom arm slot, that is what the barbed strangler attaches to. I am going to mod the venom cannon the same way so I can use that when needed.


Anyway, lets get to that guy standing on that thing. The thing is the power core from a thunderhawk that crashed on maccrage. Lt. Varras was transporting geneseed at the time and well, things went bad, he got surrounded by tyranid, and the ultramarines had to save him. Since I have an ultramarine succesor chapter going (Genesis Chapter) I thought it only fitting that a tyranid warrior would be foolishly standing on a nuclear bomb. Let's hope he doesn't crush it!

Oh, and what I did was I cut the 4 segments of his leg apart and put them back together, in a way that well, when I realized what I was doing, was truely insane.












Building things backwards is a bad idea, I'm amazed nothing broke that entire time!