you are cordially invited to a painting pity party

if i never open a pot of rotting flesh again it will be too soon.

oh but, whoops, i haven't even got a thousand points undercoated, never mind painted, yet.

and after that i have another fifteen hundred or so?

arrggh swarm armies why.*


*why? because spess merheens suck :D

cannon fodder, or, my army list

this is my list at 1000 points.

of course, i will actually have to finish fingerpainting them before i can play them, but here it is anyway.

HQ
Tyranid Prime
- pair of boneswords
- deathspitter
- regeneration
- adrenal glands

Elites
2 Zoanthropes

2 Hive Guard

Troops
4 Warriors
- barbed strangler (on one)
- deathspitter

7 Genestealers
- toxin sacs

7 Genestealers
- toxin sacs

10 Hormagaunts
- adrenal glands
- toxin sacs

10 Hormagaunts
- adrenal glands
- toxin sacs

Fast Attack
10 Gargoyles
- adrenal glands

my tactics are, er... look, i don't have any tactics. walk up the board and shout "rarrrrgh" and stab with spiky things. any advice is welcome.

shadow in the warp

this blog details my struggles to ensure hive fleet lamia don't starve, wander out of synapse range, or get lost in the warp. or trodden on, chewed by dog, or stuck in a cupboard whilst unbuilt and forgotten about.

it's not easy being a norn queen. it's harder being one of my bugs.

here's my first test model:

here's how he looks from the back:

i've updated the scheme since i painted him last night. (trans. i woke up this morning, and changed my mind.) i had left the flesh bits as just elf flesh, but a wash of leviathan purple over them makes them stand out a bit more for tabletop purposes. also, the cables for the gun have been changed from elf flesh to ice blue with an asurmen blue wash for a pop of colour. i had tried camo green first, but it doesn't really give the contrast i was after.

i was aiming for a dusty, muted, natural scheme for them. unfortunately my enthusiasm for the devlan mud wash has made him look more like "hive fleet: sleeping rough". he's had a bit more highlighting since then and i've rethought about the order in which i'm layering the wash.

also? i suck at painting. this makes me sad.