Growing Tyranids

My painting has been on the back burner for the last couple of months, and as such I’ve forgotten to update the project.

Although this has nothing to do with gaming at all, but through October, I take part in Drawloween (an online drawing challenge where you produce 31 pictures on a predesided prompt). This obviously leaves no time for hobby.

I did manage to make it to Warhammer World. A birthday treat with my wife and eldest, which was lovely.

I would recommend going, I even managed to pick up a bottle of dwarf beer.

Last is my wife was pregnant, and little Robin came into this world a couple of weeks ago

The trip to warhammer world to play Kill Team was cancelled at the last moment. Which left me feeling quite deflated if I’m honest. I could have gone on my own but in the end I would be driving for an hour and a half to a glorified shop, but game and the whole challenge of painting the models gave it a meaning. A glimmer of childish happiness in the overwhelming darkness of adult life.

But I’m not giving in to that, not today. So I’ve got the kill team painted.

So what’s the next step. I need to write the post for painting the warrior, (I took the pictues and everything). Then it’s find a way to store them, then on to doing the combat patrol.

Because I’m having to wait for each layer to dry on the warrior (and make soup) it means I can do finishing touches to other models. So ta dar.. The lictor is finished.

I really should have taken pictures following it’s journey from random bits to finish model. Alas I was too keen and forgot to record this. I am going 5o to do this with the warrior though.

The rattle can has run out on the last model.. Everything has to be done be done by hand, old school.

The four gaunts are painted and based.

Sooo, I was telling a friend what I was doing, and I mentioned my army list, and mentioned that I would love to have a warrior with a venom cannon, but its all a bit too late now. He replies “o I have one of them in stock unpainted too, I’ll put it to one side for you”

So this afternoon, I went to the next town downstream to visit Mirfield Miniatures. I can highly recommend a visit or follow the Facebook page. Mark is a true gentleman who has promoted selling selling second hand models to build gaming communities, and a disregard of the current meta for just having fun (he’s also put up with artist like me for years).

Anyway I now have this chap to base and paint by Tuesday night.

I haven’t updated this blog in a while mainly because nothing gand has happened.. Nothing to show. I’ve been chipping away, nothing is totally finished, but everything is getting close.

I found a couple of lictors at the bottom of a bits box. At first glance I thought they’d be only enough bits to build a single model, but as fate would have it, I found enough claws and legs to make two. At some point there must have been a third, but I can’t remember it.

Brilliant I thought, that will make life easy. There already undercoated and would cut down on the amount of gaunts I’d have to paint

What I had forgotten, is how heavy and awkward old metal models can be.  I will happily go on about old models (especially GWs) had more soul back in the day, at least you dont need an engineering degree to get them to balance..

Anyway as I write I’m still waiting for the glue to dry and since my fingers are now sticking to the screen as I type I’m guessing there almost cured.