Atrus Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Came across a small box of niddies recently and after showing them to my 4yo, decided that 1) he's a little too young for this yet and 2) when he is old enough, these can be his as he loves these bugs. Of course, I can't resist the urge to paint up a few of these before they're passed over to him...hopefully I can restrain myself from painting everything so he will have something to paint. http://imgur.com/gallery/yS4lSaW Trying to go for a bioluminescant glow with this- inspiration from the glow worms of the Waitomo caves in New Zealand when holidayed there years ago. Xenith and WarriorFish 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Another Hive Fleet emerges! I can see the influence on the scheme, it works nicely and will be very striking across an entire army. Maybe the question might need to be more on your little Termagant learning to replicate the scheme when the time comes to inherit :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenith Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Looking great, very Kaiju like - I think I need to see these caves! Look forward to seeing more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 Thanks! Ha, yeah, it might be a bit tricky for him to replicate the scheme when it's handed over. Give him something to work towards...or he paints everything from scratch- that'd be heartbreaking. http://imgur.com/gallery/65XJnEg Mr NomNom just got finished tonight. WarriorFish 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share Posted February 2, 2022 Got some Lil gribbly grunts done this week. http://imgur.com/gallery/8GX6W6R WarriorFish 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Very nice, the scheme adapted perfectly to the smaller models. Hopefully it wasn't too painful as you'll need to paint a lot... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 XD It wasn't too bad. Went better than I expected; still working out my flick technique to get the spotted colour on the carapace. Too find it doesn't stand out, too big it just looks off. I haven't batch painted in a long time, so even just those 10 gaunt was a reminder that's it's a time consuming process for the little guys- made longer with the spotted carapace. Going to have to find a better order of doing things. Maybe starting with the blue base and being messy to get it done quick and then doing the black base on carapace and putting some painters tape either side to do the speckling so it doesn't go on the blue... But yeah, I'm having to stop painting these models. I'm having too much fun and I can't stop myself, so I've gotta leave the models that are left...and buy some models of my own to paint. It has to be done- I can't leave my Lil hormagaunt with nothing to paint! So I grabbed a box of venomthropes last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulf Vengis Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 That paint scheme is great, Very deep jungle cave looking. You need to finish painting these models up and then gift them to your son on his 7th birthday as his starter army alongside some single piece minis to learn to paint. After that allow him to pick what the next army\unit\etc is and let him learn to build. Otherwise though congrats and great job thus far. On a sidenote, My son also chose Nids after looking at the majority of things available and my friends kid did the same. I wonder what it is about the Nids and kids of both gender being totally enthralled by them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted February 8, 2022 Author Share Posted February 8, 2022 Kids just love bugs. Apparently at my kids daycare recently there's been a heap of grasshoppers in the gardens and the kids are going crazy over them; putting them in little mesh cages and watching them eat grass in there before letting them go again. Guess spaxe bugs are just as fascinating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 Everyone knows that by putting something in space it becomes cooler right? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted February 12, 2022 Author Share Posted February 12, 2022 Space ship. Space Rock. Space bugs. Space virus. Space homework. In Space, everything sound cooler. http://imgur.com/gallery/HW13JUE I assembled those venomthropes, but I saw the neurothrope head there and couldn't let it go to waste. With a bit of work, made up my own Neurothrope. WarriorFish 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted March 7, 2022 Author Share Posted March 7, 2022 http://imgur.com/gallery/TxKD7NK Some local flooding over the past couple weeks gave me time to finally finish painting my venomthrope unit. Been greatly anticipating getting these done so I could build up the Tervigon I got. Mostly because I'm wanting to see if there's a way I can convert the lone carnifex I have into a T-fex for the much needed ranged fire-power. WarriorFish 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 The colour scheme seems to fit these especially well, nice work :tu: I think you could really go to town on the Tervigon so looking forward to that next :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted March 20, 2022 Author Share Posted March 20, 2022 http://imgur.com/gallery/XLakSCd Tervigon is finally done. I can think of no better psychic power for her than Psychic Scream as she splurges out several gants at a time. XD Can feel myself starting to burn out on painting now. I might have enough left in me to paint up my kitbashed TFex, but after that I'm gonna need to take a break from painting. WarriorFish 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted April 9, 2022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2022 http://imgur.com/gallery/M2XpgRe Tfex is finally done. That's everything I currently have painted up now and I am done with painting for a bit. Including my boys 6 warriors I let him throw paint on, this is about 1250pts. I'd like to get up to 1500pts one day but I'll fill those point up with little gribblies as I need many more of those to get that beautiful ocean of nids. WarriorFish and Brother Nathan 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted May 29, 2023 Author Share Posted May 29, 2023 https://imgur.com/gallery/udosime A friend recently got me this Heirophant so of course I had to put aside my 20 odd hormagaunts screeching for me to finish painting them and had to paint this beastie up. Brother Nathan 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Nathan Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 Looks great. Did you do anything to prop it underneeth as i hear that can be an issue with it and resin bend. Going baseless?good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atrus Posted May 29, 2023 Author Share Posted May 29, 2023 Currently unsupported. My friend gave it to me assembled. If the bending becomes an issue (didn't even consider it), I'll likely find something to prop it. Brother Nathan 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Nathan Posted May 29, 2023 Share Posted May 29, 2023 Fair enough and may be ok but iv seen a lot of reports of it as an issue with them due to thin long recurve limbs. Easily fixed with a bit of terrain or rod etc but better to be aware incase it ever does. Atrus 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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