Tyranid Broodlords and Stealer Showcase

Nick speaking,

Here is the next Stinger Hive Fleet showcase post, two Broodlords and ten Genestealers...

Broodlord One... 

Broodlord Two...

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Broodlord Conversion!

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Although the new Broodlord mini is awesome, I already have one in the set pose the model comes with. No ball and socket joints and a fixed head is a slight downside to the mini, but I am really happy with what I came up with. Rotating the mini so that he stands on the spine in the opposite direction was a good starting point and allowed for me to go for this leaping pose. Lots of green stuff in all the joints and a shorter tongue also helped change him up. Let me know if you like him!
 

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Tyranid Time Again, first batch progress

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Just a quick update on the first batch of Nids in my challenge to finish my Tyranid army again! Things are going well and I have put down the first two coats ready for the pop layers, which has to be the most fun part of my paint scheme, more to come soon...

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Tyranid Time Again!

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Well yes, I did fully finish my Tyranid army at the end of last year, but as expected, I seem to have accumulated a few more Nids over the last couple of months! The year of the Wolf is still on, and painting them is my number one priority, but I want to keep on top of the Nids and not let the unpainted minis get out of hand!

I plan on doing them in two batches, the first will be my magnetised Harpy/Hive Crone and Toxicrene/Maleceptor, of which I have linked up the magnetising tutorials I did if your interested. Along with them will be my first new Broodlord and two more bases for my next Tyrannocyte conversions. More to come on batch two, as I still need to build them, but for now, lets get the first batch painted!

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Tyranid Time #2

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Time for a quick update on the first batch of Nids I am painting towards getting my entire unpainted force done before 2015, and after 18 hours of painting I finally have the first base coat of yellow down. Pretty happy how the paint is bringing the Broodlord conversion together as well...

Now for the next layer!

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Tyranid Time #1

Nick speaking,

OK, so the end of 2014 is fast approaching, and I have my eyes set on painting my Space Wolves in 2015. I am currently painting up my Eldar and Tyranid army, and would really like to get one of them finished before I start painting up the Wolves, so lets have a look at my Nids and the left over units that I still have to paint!

Right, after getting them all out of my case I have these to paint...

8x Shrike
20x Genestealers
57x Guants/Gants
17x Gargoyles
1x Trygon
4x Pods as terrain
3x Lictor
6x Ravanar
3x Hive Tyrant Guard

First I thought I would get the little bugs out of the way, I had to get a lot of them prepared, taking off the mould lines and repairing a few, as most of these Nids were second hand. I did a quick Broodlord conversion with one of the Genestealers, and got all seventy nine of the minis primes, batch one ready to go!

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Stinger Hive Fleet Broodlord Painted

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Not really used the Broodlord yet, but now I have him all painted up, I had better fit him into one of my lists somehow. Hope you like him...

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