Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'Tyranid'.
Found 2 results
-
Hi folks, [edit] Some more Tyranids have appeared I bought a little Games Workshop game a couple of weeks ago about Space Marine scouts being eaten in the jungle by horrible Genestealers - it's called Lost Patrol and is a rework of a much earlier game, only this time with more plastic models in the box. Two weeks later, or thereabouts I've finished building, painting and photographing the jungle denizens, although not the scouts yet. They are basically Giger's Aliens with six arms I've tried a couple of schemes for Genestealers and Tyranids before and decided this time I wanted something really loud. I think this is the biggest 28mm unit I've painted yet - 12 models! - and I also did six "infestation markers" to go with them: I had to be very strict about batch painting - no going on to the next step until the previous one had been applied to all the models. Pretty gruelling at times (count those claws) but it seems to get the job done and at least I could sit in front of the telly while working. Here are some close-ups of a few of the models: (click for bigger/more) and here they are lurking in the jungle: I have (a small number of) other Tyranids which these have inspired me to put together, and I think I'm going to try and do the same paint scheme on those as well. For reference, they were airbrushed with mixes of Flat Flesh, Flat Red and Hull Red (all Tamiya) and highlighted with GW paints before being glazed with Tamiya Clear Red. The carapace was drybrushed and everything else brush painted apart from the final varnish coats. The bases are grit and sand painted Dryad Bark, drybrushed and then I added a mix of Woodland Scenics stuff over the top, set with diluted PVA and Klear. The plants are laser cut paper from Wako in Japan, they're about a thousand yen a (smallish) sheet but I've used less than 10% of two sheets so far so I think they're fairly cost effective nonetheless. Thanks for looking! Will- 26 replies
-
- 11
-
-
- Games Workshop
- 28mm
- (and 2 more)
-
Hi all, Been a bit out of the modelling loop lately - Micky broke her ankle a couple of days before Christmas so my holiday time was mostly spent doing housework and generally rushing around. I've not progressed the handful of things I was working on although I did prime the parts for a Moebius Bat-Pod. Anyway, serious danger of modeller's block setting in so I thought I'd better do something easy/fun. Hence this recent Games Workshop kit of a Tyranid monster - the Haruspex. (Click for bigger) It all went together quite well and I primed it with decanted Tamiya white primer. Some filler was needed and I must admit I haven't done a great job - I needed to spend more time in better light smoothing the expoy putty down. I sprayed everything with Tamiya acrylics (mainly deck tan and medium blue) including all the blends on the horns and the mouth colours. Quite a lot of overspray in the mouth area, which was unavoidable really - too organic to paint in pieces, and too concave to paint together. I generally like the colours though, with inspiration coming from crabs, and people. I figure that using human-like colouring for the skin, bone and viscera will help with the whole body horror aspect This afternoon I left the a/b in its box and started working on the carapace using sponges and drybrushing followed by glazes over the medium blue base. It's ended up looking sort of iridescent. The whole model is quite messy and I'm trying to figure out how neat I want it to be - too neat isn't organic enough, too messy just looks bad... And this evening I've been working up the face and head a bit. The horn is still wet here but I think it may be getting a re-paint or at least some touch up work. I like the colour (tan->brown->black->blue) but it needs to be cleaner and better graduated than it is. The eyes and head carapace are OK though I was sort of hoping to get this done-ish by Wednesday night for our club meeting, I'm not sure if I'm up to that based on tonight's progress but it's fun to be messing around with paint again after quite a long break. Cheers, Will
- 24 replies
-
- 1
-
-
- Games Workshop
- Tyranid
- (and 1 more)