More paint! Hive Guard, Misc.

Very nearly done. Just need to come up with a finish for the spikey bits at the end, but otherwise good to go. From this angle you can see the bulking up I've done on this side.His gun looked a little weedy, and I felt like there could be some more blue over on that side.

Tervigon Painted

Wow... I got in a groove yesterday, put in at least 10 hours on my Tervigon. I'm pleased by the results; I saw a tiny camera phone shot of the back spiked tervs and fell in love. The chopped thumbs got moved to the front as mandibles, along with that Y shaped doodad so that the poor carnifex can cast powers and we're well on the way there. Looking at it with paint, I might go back and add in some GS sacs of some sort, but that's for another day. I wanted it playable for the league. Definitely satisfactory, even though there is still a little work left to go. Without further ado, the eye-candy

Hive guard

Pretty easy conversion. Weapon bash with some cocktail straws, carni back-plate, and the armor doodad instead of the typical warrior head-plate. Add in some greenstuff, and there ya go.






And a few detail shots of the head




The real bummer is that the warrior box only comes with one rending claw, so my other HG will undoubtedly look different. C'est la vie.

Tfex Painted!

Well, 90% finished. There's still some detailing to do, the mouth, claws and some more washes, but it's damn close.


And some more shots






And the one view I'll see a lot of


Aimed at the enemy.

I definitely need to finish the spore stacks as well as some other bits. I'm leaning towards painting the scytals something other than bone, but bone is looking like the way to go.

Escalating Tyranids

Within the next month, the FLGS will begin a painted only escalation league. I figure that its the perfect opportunity to get my nids off the ground. I've got a carnifex box in the mail(a tfex waiting to happen), and I'm about to score first in our current tourney, which will net me another carni and a warrior box, another Tervigon and hive guard, more like. Here's my first 500 points

Prime
-Lash whip, Bonesword, Scything Talons, Adrenal glands, Toxin sacs
=115

Hive Guardx1
=50

Termagantsx10
=50

Tervigon
-Adrenal Glands, Toxin sacs, Catalyst, scytals
=200

Stealersx6
=84

==500

I figure the prime will join the hive guard to benefit from his T6, and to soak some AP3. They're also a good target for FnP, right after the tervigon himself.