tale of fou gamers part 3: panic!!!

While I wait for the sand on my tyrants base to set and my girlfriend to call me I may as well update the old blog. Just over a week to go and it looks like I may not hit my deadline. I have finished 8 stealers, 6 hormagaunts, 12 termagants and the tyrant. 3 warriors and 5 hormagaunts are in progress and 5 hormagaunts and 4 termagaunts are still to be started. And too make matters worse I’ve run out of my main colour, gryphonne sepia. AAAAHHH.

Panic over. I can buy paint tomorrow and do have some quite evenings this week and my painting is speeding up.

I’m really pleased with how the nids are looking, the scheme has given them a very cohesive look, like they are all one single minded organism and a few scenic bases (most notably the tau battle suit parts on the tyrant) have added some character.

Haven’t had a game with just my nids yet, but on Thursday me and my mate Dan teamed up to make 1500pts to take on a guard army in our local GW. Why I saw three leman russ’ I thought we were going to get pulverised, but Dan’s trygon prime and deathleaper took them down before they did too much damage while my hormagaunts and genestealers ate his gun line. When his valkyire and veterens showed up on turn 4 and killed my tyrant it was too little too late and we scored a crushing victory.

Anyway, back to painting

Tale of four gamers part 2; progress

Two weeks since I accepted the challenge of tale of four gamers, how am I getting on? Not bad but there’s still loads to do. Up till today I had built the whole battleforce and painted 12 gaunts. To get the painting done quickly I’ve chosen a simple but effective colour scheme, based on making the most of the new citadel washes. Working over a white undercoat I started with 2 washes of gryphone sepia, this give me instant shading and highlighting for minimum effort and is all the colour that the fleshy part of the nid’s need. For the carapace I start with blazing orange and then apply 2 or 3 washes of baal red, followed by a wash of devlan mud, this gives a really strong shade effect while keeping bright highlights. I also used baal red in the breaks in the skin to make them stand out, before finishing with a few little details in badmoon yellow, charadon granite, badab black, chaos black and skull white. I’m hoping to have some pics of the finished result with my next blog.

Today my final model for this month showed up in the post, The Hive Tyrant. I’ve spent all evening building him and I have to say it’s the hardest model I’ve ever built. Despite that I’m pleased with how he has turned out and I’ve even managed to have a go at magnetising some of the weapon options. I glued the lash whip and bone sword in the top 2 arm slots and magnetised the bottom pair to have either a heavy venom cannon or a pair of scything talons.

I just so happen to have the next week off work so hoping to make a big inroad into all that painting and maybe get my first game with my nids.

Tale of four gamers, the oposition
Just a brief update on tale of four gamers. Adam and Jonny now have there blogs up and running so take a look, see how my opposition are getting on. Here's the links.

http://jonnyellis.wordpress.com/

http://adamchrimes.wordpress.com/

Not seen Odin for a week now but if he does get a blog up I’ll happily link to it.

Just one final note, Contrary to my last post, Adam is now collecting orkz not chaos, my apologies for this misrepresentation.

Enjoy the other guys blogs and I’ll have an update for you soon