(Continued from last page) I also painted up a pair of Marauder bombers. I used the same colour scheme as for the Valkyries. The bombs and missiles are painted like the regiment's troops in honour of the brave men fighting the xenos.


Shots from the sides and bottom:


I also went back to add markings to my older stuff: a Vulture squadron


and two formations of Thunderbolts:


The whole Imperial Navy contingent:


As always, thanks for watching
/Fredmans

Nice desert scheme, the tail ID's are really good.

I bet the freehand numbering took some time and patience to do.

Great looking bunch of stuff, especially like the more subtle schems worked out on the Daemon engines back a page.

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I have to admit that it did (take some time), but it really adds to the feeling of an actual army instead of a collection of models.



Glad you liked them. I aimed for a more subtle approach to the standard Khorne colour scheme.

Some really impressive work

Regards epic

very cool work
I like the colorsheme very much
the desert yellow and wolf grey(?) work well
your windows are looking very good too

The desert scheme is bestial brown through desert yellow with an edge highlight of khaki (by conincidence the same scheme I use for my guards' bases). The wolf grey scheme is wolf grey shaded with watered down shadow grey and edge highlight in skull white.

I thought I would add some pictures from my workbench as some more Tyranid stuff is finished for painting.

I have some Hive Tyrants to paint...


and thought I would make a second flying one as well. As you can see, I have cut off the two upper arms. These will be replaced with Forgeworld ripper wings.



When I cut off the sword arm, I started thinking about what to do with it. Then I saw this old-school Hive Tyrant, and what do you know, a "Swarm Lord" was born. I will most likely count it as a Scythed hierodule, but our gaming group also made some rules for a Tyrant Lord Supreme Commander for us to try out.


Finally, I cleaned up some of E&C lovely stuff.


There is another four on a stick. I will base them two to a base, like my previous Lictors and Raveners.

As always, thanks for watching and commenting,
Fredmans

Oh nice blog. Your tyranids are truly inspiring!

Nice Aircraft !!!!!

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Well. Vacation usually means work in the dictionary of a working man, just a switch of arena and this summer is no different. Anyway, me and my family is going away for a couple of weeks, and as much as I had wanted these models to be finished, I feel it disheartening to find this log on page 5 (and who knows where when I return). So, I thought I'd share the few models I have finished (sans basing).

I have been working on a few techniques to increase the contrast and depth of the colours without making it look silly, and although it takes a lot more time, I think the result turned out pretty good.

A Hive Tyrant (front and back)



And two Zoanthropes:


As always, thanks for watching,
Fredmans

Very nice work !!!

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Good work with those Zoanthropes, they are quite scary

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very nice stuff

Nice work on the swarm lord, looks spot on. There's definitely something creepy about those z-thropes.

All round good stuff!

So, after a long hot summer, it is finally time for an update.

I mentioned that I had worked on my contrasts, and here is the result (the ones on the left are my first attempts, the ones on the right are new). I tried to keep a richness in colour (in effect staying out of the whites), yet achieve more distinctive highlights. I found out that a mid-stage second wash was a good strategy.

Hive Tyrants - old vs new


Hive Tyrants in the red-brown and the green camo scheme:



A Winged Tyrant - I used Forge World Ripper Wings for this one (a much easier approach than my previous one which had me filing away at old 40K metal Gargoyle wings) I think they are on the edge of being too small, but still feel that they are credible enough.



...and compared with the old one.


To be continued in next post...