Ravener

And here is the first Elite unit I have for the Tyranids Army, a Ravener. Painted with same technique in roughly 45 minutes.

I always like the Tyranids that can go underground and that I somehow feel they fit nicely with other units that can lurk, like the Lictor or Genestealers.

In fact, I plan to use this figure as a a Lictor until I get one. I also plan eventually to get a Trigon or some other bigger crawler, but that's for the future.

The Hive Tyrant is mostly done as well so as soon as I am ready, I will share an Army picture with the whole Horde!

Painted in 2022

Tyranid Warriors

Here is the only Tyranid Warriors unit I plan to ever use in the army, as they are very expensive and not that effective.

Painted with same scheme and in roughly 2 hours. 

Painted in 2022

Termagaunts

Second unit of my Tyranid Army: 10 Termagaunts

These are painted int the same manner as before and they are just here to occupy some lonely objective and stay there mostly hidden for the whole battle.

I painted them in roughly 3-4 hours including bases, which is quite fast.

Painted in 2022

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

Dreadwarden

Back in 2020 I painted the Chainrasps, I forgot to include a Dreadwarden and I could not field them for Warcry.

With this speed paint job in roughly 1h 30min it is now solved.

Painted exactly using the same techniques described here.

Painted in 2022 

Perturabo

I originally started this blog to showcase my collection of Primarchs, although it has grown into a full-blown hobby blog.

The last Primarch I painted for my collection was way back in 2015, when I shared Konrad Curze, primarch of the Night Lords. I am not counting the second Angron I painted in 2020 for a friend.

Well, finally, the wait is over, and today I am happy to share the next one: Perturabo, primarch of the Iron Warriors!

I have had him for quite a few years, but never got the time to paint him as I was busy going over my pile of shame.

I chose to paint him in the same way I have painted other primarchs, NMM for the primarch itself and TMM for base and other marines.

The base of Perturabo is quite imposing as it shows a destroyed Knight. I painted this one with lots of drybrush, washes and stippling to achieve this faded, destroyed look.

Perturabo is the first primarch I have painted using a wet palette to take advantage of easier wet blending, which lets me do better NMM and glazing. Still, in my case, this means a poor attempt at NMM where I think I have managed to achieve what I wanted to do in like one or two places, everything else is just wrong :) Additionally I have tried OSL on the face using an orange fluor paint and also failed at that. Just means that I need to keep on practicing...

I hope you like him as much as I had fun painting him!

Next I will do some batch speed painting to take it easy...

Painted in 2022

Eddie

For today I have something special. A limited edition of Eddie from Iron Maiden, used in the cover of the Somewhere in Time album. It was sculpted by Diego Serrate and as far as I know it was a one-off and no longer available.

I think this was released as a way to get extra funds to start printing some miniatures, but I forgot the original reason. I anyway decided to support Diego as he sculpts and provides always excellent service and miniatures. I bought and painted his first Kickstarter, the Pantheon of Chaos, a while back. At the same time painting a figure for one of my favourite bands was something I could not pass on!

The miniature is quite small, see the pictures below for a comparison with a 2-cent coin. Some of the details are roughly sculpted although there were no mold lines or other errors that needed to be fixed with green stuff.

I decided to paint it following the same colours as in the picture shown above. Again, I wanted to maximize contrast to achieve a striking effect. So, I settled on using NMM for the metals and a high contrast between dark/light muscles for the exposed skin. The whole miniature was painted in roughly 2 hours which is a very good time for me.

For the base, I chose the same style as for my Walking Dead miniatures, adding a few leaves, a newspaper and an empty beer bottle. I might end up using it to fight off zombie hordes.

This is just the third miniature painted this year, I really need to pick up my pace if I am to achieve my year-end goals!

Painted in 2022