Hormagaunts

Last year, I bought a super cheap set of Tyranids at a second-hand shop for 20€. Some of them were in pretty bad shape, but it did not matter too much as I just needed a few to kitbash and the Genestealers for my Genestealer Cult Army.

Later on, I decided to use them for Kill Team so I started to play with them more and enjoyed them quite a bit.

Lately, I have started to play more One Page Rules and I realized that if I would use all the figure I bought back in the day plus a Hive Tyrant I could have easily over 2,000 points so it was settled.

At the same time I needed to paint ultra fast some figures to rest from the effort of painting the ones I have done earlier this year.

As a result, here is the first unit of the army: 10 Hormagaunts. They are basically cannon fodder but if played at the right time they can deliver some damage.

I painted them in about 3 or 4 hours, which is super fast for me. The painting scheme I chose for them is the same I chose for my Genestealer Cult. I used the same necromunda bases.That way, I can mix them easily and have a bigger army by adding a few units of Genestealers or by using some of the Tyranids as allies for my Cult.

Painting schema

For the base I use these colours.

1. Paint the whole base Gunmetal.
2. Paint some pipes and other details with Tinny Tin.
3. Optional add some additional details with other colours like grey or bone.
4. Cover everything with Strong Tone Wash.
5. Highlight with silver and bronze the different areas adding some texture and scratches.
6. Add spots of oxyde with Orange and Turquoise for the bronze areas.
7. Optional add some more washes or pigments to make it even more rusty.

For the body, I use the following.

1. Mix 60/40 of black and magic blue for the body and paint everything including caparace.
2. Dry-brush a mix of 50/50 of black and magic blue for caparace.
3. Very light dry-brush pure magic blue on caparace, optionally adding some splashes of pure magic blue on the borders.
4. Hexed Lichen for the lila parts, which is mostly the "skin".
5. Wash the lila parts with dark tone.
6. Repaint the lila parts with Hexed leaving darker areas for deep shadows.
7. Paint teeth with bone.
8. Paint tongue with squid pink and optional add some highlights mixing pink and lila to the skin.
9. Paint eyes with orange.
10. Paint all claws in black.
11. Edge highlight claws with wolf grey.

Painted in 2022