After School 40k – Tyranids

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About the Project

My son has just started his new senior school and every day tells me something he loves about, well this week topped it when he came home and said "Dad next week they are starting a 40k after-school club" but then he says "but we don't play 40k and we don't have an army" So I can't let that stand, so this will be a quick project to get a 40k army up and running, my son wants Tyranids so let's do this. Time is short so I am going to keep it tabletop, I am starting with the start collecting box and we will go from there. If you have any tips on building a list/army or what should come next after the start collecting box please do leave a comment.

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eye ache!

Sep 15 2018

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So last night I sat down to get as much done as I could in one night, and this is the result.

I now need to go round again with washes, highlights and the finishing touches but for a project that only started a day ago and this is what I would say is about 6-7 hours in I can see it taking shape.

I painted for about 5 hours solid last night and I only stopped as my right eye really started to ache, I can still feel it this morning

Paints used

Sep 15 2018

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Just a quick one, these are the paints used on the tester model. I thinned some of them down for the airbrush as the purple layer paints are very thick out of the pot.

For the basing, I kept it very simple with a texture paint and dry brush to hopefully get the alien (mars) surface. I then picked up this Alien grass tufts which I think contrast ok. Again it needs to be quick.