Tyranid Painting Progress
Thu ,18/02/2010
I first bought my Tyranids as a side army, something to work on while I played with my Chaos Space Marines. Over time, I grew tired of the my little Chaos crew. I did it mostly because after playing a few games in the Campbell basement, along with playing in a Rogue Trader tournament, I just didn’t feel like I had any more desire to look at a MEQ army. What I do look fondly on are the times that myself and Chris spent in his basement where we spent so much time working on building and painting our Chaos forces.
While I had fun painting regular marines, it doesn’t mean I was great at it. As you can see, I definitely had some room for improvement …
Not terrible by any stretch of the imagination, but not fantastic either. I didn’t work at all with any sort of watering down of colors, no washes, no drybrushing. For the most part, the only thing that had changed from when I was working on my Orks back in High Schools, was that my hand was a bit more steady.
With the Tyranids, what drew me to them was the models look fantastic, they play more to my balanced style, and from what I had heard, they were easier to paint. As I have spent the past few years working on them, I can now say that I absolutely love painting them. While my quality could only be best described as table worthy, I am still having a lot more fun with it! What I wanted to present to you tonight was a look at the kind of progress that I’m making and hopefully people can offer suggestions.
I am do this fairly standard as I started with Hormagaunts and Ripper Swarms, the basic troop choices. Now I am starting to move up in Tyranid Warriors, and I can already say that I’m love the bigger models. More space to work, more detail to work on, and they simply look fantastic even by my standards.
At this point, the figures had been assembled for years. Time for Prime!
My favorite unit, Genestealers, start to take their icy color.
Hormaguants lead the assualt as the first painted units. The Warriors are soon to follow.
Hormaguants, Genestealers and Warriors, oh my! Now the army is starting to look fearsome!