Old Tyrant, New Look (Tyranids, part 6)

Well I decided to take an old friend, the fearsome DakkaTyrant and fix him up for the new army. He's not as good anymore because of the lack of Living Ammunition, which was one of my favorite rules, but he might still be worth something. Anyway, the pictures:

Well that's all I got for now, let me know what you think and be sure to come back for more!

Tyranids (part V)

It's been a while but I've got some work on my 'Nids done. I managed to paint three Zoanthropes and a couple Warriors. I am a bit disappointed in the new warriors, I personally think that 2 wounds would be plenty if they were T5, but now a lucky powerfist that wounds three times can take out an entire squad. But, it is what it is. I really like the new Zoanthropes, especially their new Force Organization slot. Once again no bases but they're mostly painted. Pictures!

And then some Photoshop magic!

Thanks for reading, more to come soon!

A little treat (Tyranids, part 4)

Today I decided to give myself a little treat and put some paint on my Malanthrope. I got him mostly done but I haven't decided what I could use him as in the new codex, maybe one of the Doom guys. Anyway, here's some pictures:

Let me know what you think! Thanks for reading, and more to come!

Tyranids (part III)

A couple days ago I painted some Hormagaunts, which look awesome in the new book, a little bummed about the lack of leaping but oh well still awesome and cheap. I'm thinking a few 20man poisoned squads would be very effective at heavy infantry when combined with the rerolling of 1s to hit. Anyway I have them done except for the faces and bases so here they are:

The darker guys are ones I tested before I decided on a definite scheme. And just for the record, those aren't the bases I'm going to use but just what I'm painting them on. Well that's it for now, come back for more!

Tyranids (part 2)

Well I decided to go ahead and try to paint another Carnifex. This one is a Screamer-Killer, before they were mostly useless with new codex. For the most part I'm a bit confused about the new codex, I mean it's a solid codex and all, it just doesn't feel like Tyranids though. I miss all the options and stat changes and a different weapon profile depending on the wielder. But maybe it's a good thing but it's still something to get used to. Anyway, the pictures:

Let me know what you think! Thanks for reading!

Tyranids (part 1)

Well I'm back now, and lately I've been starting back on my 'Nids. I decided that my colour scheme would be simpler than before so I looked around the webs for some inspiration and found some light-skinnded, green carapace looking guys that I like. I don't remember exactly who did them, or I would give them credit so I apologize for that. Anyway, I worked on a Carnifex as a test. I don't think it turned out that bad actually, I have him done except for the base which I haven't decided on how I'm doing yet. Anyway, photos:

Let me know what you think! Thanks for reading!

Quick! Press the RESET button!!!

Got a lot to post about today. Yesterday I participated in the Warhammer 'Ard Boyz tournament at my LGS and I think I did pretty well. I had an almost all goblin army with a couple units of Black Orcs (to smack the goblins around). I played against a legand gamer around here my first game (well one of them, we seem to have a couple) and by some miracle or act of Gork (or maybe Mork) I managed to pull out a Minor Loss, he was playing Vampire Counts (an army I've never played against and knew nothing about). It turns out he massacred everyone else he played against though so I'll take that as a win in my book. My second game was against Wood Elves which caused a lot of problems from Fear Elves but I overcame it with a draw in my favor by 600 points. Those were the top players at the time and I was fighting for 3rd (there weren't many people at this one) but I couldn't fight anyone that I should have because I already had so I ended up playing against Skaven and I pulled a Massacre off the skin of my teeth. I ended up in 2nd place over all and thats when I came to a chilling conclusion.

I got $40 for second place and I ended up looking through the whole Citadel catalog and I couldn't find anything that I needed. Or wanted. Now that, for a gaming addict, is an extremely sobering feeling. I think I'm bored with GW! I know, its shocking but I don't know what to do at this point. I do hope this is a temporary feeling though. Updates soon.

Next order of business is my Tyranids. I'm tired of them. So earlier this week I stripped them all and I will repaint them and possibly sell them. I'm thinking a simpler scheme to get them all done and out of here and start a new army, plus the new codex is going to be coming out so maybe I will end up just getting another Nid army and trying again.

Then there's my Blood Angels. Now there's an army that I am sick and tired of looking at... space marines. I see so many and they are so boring now, and Blood Angels just aren't different enough to be... different, if that makes any sense. But I still feel emotionally attached to them. I am up to 13k points of them and they were my first army ever, so I just haven't been able to bring myself to get rid of them. This is a dilemnia I've been looking at for many months now and I am lost at what to do.

My Deathwing were unassembled and returned to their respective bits boxes.

And lastly my Iron Warriors. I've made very little progress on these guys except for one squad of Defensemasters (count as Plaguemarines) and the buying on a box to make into Seigemasters (count as Thousand Sons). And that's about it. I tried my best to keep it short but thanks for reading and come back soon y'all

The Great Devourers

Another one of my favorite armies in 40k would have to be the Tyranids. The fact that it takes all of the best resources the Imperium has to kill one tendril of its unimaginably massive hive fleet (ie the Battle for Macragge) is one reason for this. The other is how they continue living. As long as they are not the only living thing in the universe then they will always be killing, murdering, and being modeled into comical armies for table-top war games. They also remind me a lot of the Kroot's survival mechanism times 100. Kroot eat to change subtly... Tyranids eat to become new species.

I've always wanted a Tyranid army since I was 12 and was first learning about 40k. These desires only were magnified a year later (or so) when I played against my first Tyranid army. I got tabled and lost horribly.... on turn 2.... but then I played again and to keep one unit alive until the end! And I continued to play against this opponent until I was almost drawing a couple games. Sadly we got deployed not long afterwards and has only recently come back. But since I've seen a Tyranid army here, then here for a little bit. It was only recently that I actually started my own Tyranid army with the present of a Tyranid Battle Force set for Christmas this year. I got so excited that I just got right to building and such and bought the codex next time I was at my local game store. In the couple months since I've worked it up to a 1750pt army (which is pretty good when you don't have any time of income).


Let me start by explaining the fluff of my army. After a little research into the Tyranids I found out that before a Tyranid invasion they send out spores that supercharge the plant growth. And if Earth is anything to model other planets by, then about 90% of most planets will be plants anyway. So it doesn't take much to convince somoene that Tyranids eat about 85% plants and 15% other stuff. So why are all these Tyranid armies modeled as though they are only carnivores and only eat other animals? Which is why I have created Hive Fleet Flora!!!


My Tyranids have a green exoskeleton, a brown carapace, and a megenta coloured miscellaneous pieces such as the tongue and ammunition. They are fun to paint, mostly combinations of washes and dybrushing. None of them are based because mostly I don't know how I want them. I have very few of these buggers fully painted, most of them are all very close to being finish though (I ran out of the colour I highlight the carapace with and haven't felt like getting a new pot yet). So I don't have many pictures of them but I'll post them later.


My army is very much in the extremes, all my guys are either extremely shooting (ie my Tyrant) or extremely close-combat oriented (ie my bull-dozing, 250pt point monster fex). I noticed the only way to make these guys better in combat is give them scything talons (or crushing claws in the case of Carnifexes). Unlike most armies, giving them guns doesn't hurt their combat ability. So now you can shoot a million shots and still be just as devastating in combat, so most of my guys have big guns (or small guns in the case of gaunts and rippers... yes I even give my rippers guns). And how would you like being shot at with vicious beetles, and then being pounced by a dump truck sized killing machine? You wouldn't. And neither will be opponent.

With that I'll bring this to a close (mostly because I just got up and can't think clearly) so I don't waste any more of your (or my) time.

Stay tuned and thanks for reading.