Every year
the local GW hosts Winter Warlords, a hobby challenge in which us
regulars knuckle down to starting a new army whilst the evenings are
cold and dark and our relatives need some indication of what we want
for Christmas. This year I was going to work on my Black Legion
because I have a decent starting force built and whilst they were fun
to make and will be fun to play a simple black and gold colour scheme
sounds a bit boring to paint.
Then my
father happened. Its my birthday this week and my dear old dad bought
me a Tyranid Start Collecting set. I've never played Tyranids before,
never even painted one aside from a couple of Genestealer Cults
models I bought when that army first hit.
It was still
a toss up, though. I got home with my big box o' bugs but I still
felt it would be the Black Legion for Winter Warlords because I
wasn't sure how I wanted to paint the 'Nids. Organic colours are not
my usual medium but then a friend commented on a GW Facebook post and
thus this image appeared on my timeline:
I love it.
It has fantastic contrast between the two main colours. Grey is a
colour I know I can achieve an organic look on (as I already managed
it with my Nurgle Daemons) and I think I can adapt the bone method
from my Tomb Kings for the carapace. En masse I think these guys will
look amazing.
First step:
build the Warriors from my Start Collecting to test out the colour
scheme.
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