[IG | GSC | Tyranids] A Shadow over Koranoa

[LinkStatic]

Hello all,

 

I am new to this board and a refugee of the more darker and more negative hobbysites that are around.

 

In this thread,I want to show my progress of three of my armies, which, more accidently than planned, all kind of tie in together. My Imperial Guard, my Tyranids and as a latest addition, my Genestealer Cult. 

 

I want to take the chance to maybe write down a bit of my head canon and in general keep track of the project.

 

So, please enjoy.

 

 

 

 

161th Koranoan

 

This army started as a bit of a coincidence but it really grew on my. Originally my cousin started to play guard with two catachan army boxes and a valkyrie. Eventually he left the hobby and gave them to me. In the beginning, I would've never started with Catachan but the goofy looking guys kinda found a way to my heart. They were my first army, where I really dug into and got a lot of it painted. The paintjob is really simple on most, just base colour, washes and drybrushes.But I think it works on an army wide image. As I really started to paint during Corona, I based them on a planet called Koranoa.

 

Army Shot

 

 

 

The Infantry

 

 

 

Tank Commanders

 

 

 

The Heavy Guns

 

 

 

Heavy Weapons Team

 

 

 

Sentinels

 

 

Auxiliaries

 

 

 

66th Koranoan Airborne

 

 

 

 

 

Gaunt's Ghosts

 

 

 

TO DO

2x Leman Russ (built and primed)

3x Heavy Weapon Teams with Heavy Bolter (built)

1x Baneblade (built and primed)

 

 

Hive Fleet Charybdis

 

 

Army Shot

 

 

 

The Swarmlord

 

 

 

Winged Hive Tyrant

 

 

 

Exocrine and Haruspex

 

 

 

Gargoyles

 

 

 

Termagaunts & Ripper Swarms

 

 

 

Broodlord & Genestealer

 

 

 

Zoantrophes and Neurothrope

 

 

 

Hive Guard

 

 

 

Trygon

 

 

TO DO

1x Tyrannofex (built and based)

19x Genestealers (built and based)

10x Gargoyles (built and based)

 

 

Johnson and Johnson Lumber Co. (Cult of the Fallen Star)

 

This is my latest addition. I am currently working on a color scheme, trying out orange as a main color for the jump suites and yellow for the Vehicles. I wanted to try to avoid green, too many projects. I want the skin tone to vary from a white skin tone to the same skintone of my tyranids, with white skin and dark spots as a progress.In my head canon they are not miners but lumberjacks and deforestation workers. I love the Genestealer Cult and it is the perfect link between my Imperial Guard and Tyranids.

 

 Test scheme for my cult. Really liking it and its fun to paint and not too much of a hustle. Definitely horde army viable.

 

 

 

 

I also discovered a nice tutorial on yellow vehicles which I tested on my Ridgerunners, as I wanted to try yellow vehicles anyway.

 

 

 

https://abload.de/img/20210831_205803vmkhh.jpg

 

 

TO DO

1x fem Magus (built and based)

1xAcolyte Iconward

20x Neophyte Hybrinds (built and based)

11x Acolyte Hybrids (built and based)

2x Achilles Ridgerunner (built and based)

 

 

Some pictures from a match from the weekend against Death Guard:

 

 

https://abload.de/img/20210918_135020bkjyw.jpg

 

https://abload.de/img/20210918_135011j4kcs.jpg

 

https://abload.de/img/20210918_135416koky8.jpg

 

[Sagentus]

Welcome to Bolter and Chainsword!!! 

 

Great looking armies! been a while since i have seen catachans tbh, nicely executed. 

 

really like the paint scheme on the nids and the test scheme for the cults is spot on imo! 

[RADU LYKAN]

I like the idea of those dark nids scuttling around in the depths of the forest with the Koronoans trying to hunt them down only for the lumber jacks to turn up and royally hose them, keep at it and get the rest painted!

[Tallarn Commander]

Wow! Your Nid and IG armies are gorgeous. I agree with the others that your test Squad of orange and black Hybrids is very impressive. I look forward to seeing the completed yellow vehicles.

[LinkStatic]

Thank you for your kind words!

 

Continuing my work on the cult I finished all the infantry now of the two start collecting boxes. Motivating myself to paint GSC is pretty easy with the codex (probably) coming in December and Angels of Death depicting them in a great, menacing way.

 

 

 

 

 

I am planning on getting two or three more start collecting boxes, as these are great value, without any characters decreasing the value (as the iconward is easily kitbashed into another acolyte hybrid). I am fearing, the upcoming Combat Patrol will have one or more characters, making rebuying it more than once a bit less good value.

 

Up next I think will be a Tank Commander, to get them up to three.

 

 

[tinpact]

Nice job on the nids! The green/yellow/brown is such a good natural-looking color scheme. The logger GSCs are a fantastic idea - I'm imagining a "Shadow over Innsmouth" scenario, but set in the Cascades instead of New England.

[LinkStatic]

Nice job on the nids! The green/yellow/brown is such a good natural-looking color scheme. The logger GSCs are a fantastic idea - I'm imagining a "Shadow over Innsmouth" scenario, but set in the Cascades instead of New England.

 

Thanks! Totally the vibe I am imagining as well with the Cult. Thats one thing that really draws me to them.

 

Today, the 161. got totally served by the Adepta Sororitas. There were different factors at play: 1. My list was really really bad against his. 2. I played really bad. I am still lacking experience with the Imperial Guars in specific and Warhammer 9th in general. Nevertheless,it was a fun game and I went straight back to the drawing board with new list ideas.

 

Some impressions:

 

 

 

 

 

My opponent provided the terrain. For myself I ordered the prepainted Urban Mats one last week. Looking forward to it arriving.

[QuarterPounder]

Great looking armies! Love what you're doing with the Cult, and you have a fantastic IG and Nid collection. Thanks for sharing!

[LinkStatic]

So, I haven't posted for a while, but not because I did not paint, but I just didn't take any photos. In the last few weeks, some stuff happened.

 

1. My pile of grey plastic grew. I got a perfect offer to pick up some GSC from a friend second hand (although all in sprue, so basically new) for a really good price. This included: The old Insurrection box (Brood Coven, Truck, Acolytes, Neophytes and Brood Brothers. I took the brood brothers sprues, put some catachan heads on them and added them to my Karanoan Guard.), a box of Atalan Jackals, some old Kill Team Box with a Kellermorph, more Acolytes and an Iconward, the Death Watch Overkill (?) sprues, basically an abominant, aberrants and more acolytes and another female Magus. I built most of it and painted a lot of it. I did not built the acolytes yet and will wait for the codex to see how I will equip them. So yeah. Now I have a really solid base for my cult.

 

2. I painted a lot! I had an idea of a memey melee Catachan list and raided my bitz box and built the last remaining Guardsmen I had, some with power swords, some with fists, some regular. I also painted all the remaining Infantry. So now, the only thing left for me to paint are two Russes and the Baneblade.

 

So now for some pictures (will add some more over the next days).

 

 

Tyrannofex

 

 

 

Inquisitor Coteaz (bought him for the memey melee list and I looove the model)

 

 

New Guardsmen using the Cadian Sprue + Catachan Heads. They fit the army nicely:

 

 

 

The Patriarch of my Cult. I ordered some tree trunks from GSW, to get a bit more away from the industrial feel and add to the foresty theme:

 

 

I hope you enjoy them. More will follow

[Freakshow668]

Very nice looking armies you have there, I love how you've tied them all together.