Warhammer (with the models and everything)

What is this? Warhammer for ANTS?!

Ha! Well yes, these are somewhat diminutive in stature, but what they lack in size they make up for in numbers.

Another Horror from the Hive. Behold the Tervigon!

I’ve seen less polite things written about it.

Somebody on the Tyranid subreddit sprang the word ‘Tervigussy’ on the world about the birthing sac opening. Once you have this knowledge, it cannot be forgotten.

That Master Lazarus I ordered off Etsy arrived today. The print quality is excellent. Can recommend.

Nowt wrong with thread spamming 😉

Stop being so bloody productive ;-)

It's taken me a week to glue 14 skeletons



Post pics of your guys when done

I’m painting the Terminator Librarian. This is very challenging and requires techniques I’ve not really used plus a bit of McGuyvering. It’s coming along OK so far if a bit scruffy in places. The force axe I tried twice before re-basing and switching to a different tutorial (good old Duncan).

One thing I am coming across with some of these tutorials is that they would have you buying 30 different colours for one model - I don’t need or want to own ANOTHER blue so I’ve been trying substitutes and mixing to varying degrees of success. One thing I have found is that you can make a very passabe Sotek Green by mixing Stegadon Scale and a blue like Teclis.

Loads of people seem to have cottoned on to the pin wash with white oil for the runes, and I was not gonna go there. I tried doing a medium + Kroxigor contrast pin wash but if it has done anything it is bloody subtle. What I’ve found to sort of work was Teclis Blue (again, recommended by nobody but what I had) thinned to an inch of its life with the corporation pop. It’s really satisfying seeing the capillary action in, erm action, and the way intersecting lines grip onto one another and tense up. I’ve ended up doing two of these sort of pin washes and then a repeat in strategic places with Blue Horror.

Fingers crossed it turns out OK, feel like I’ve rushed it because I had plans to paint more than this this weekend, but I’ve adjusted my expectations there now.

I guess what I’m trying to say is piss about until you find something that works if you don’t quite have the materials or talent to copy these amazing painters that distort your sense of reality. At the end of the day it’s gotta be good enough for your own shelf or table and that’s what’s important.