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.