This week
past has been a bit odd, real life-wise, and so I've mainly just been
concentrating on finishing up some things from the basing shelf.
Thus, this week its just a showcase of finished models because its
the end of Fractional Progress February.
I did get
one game in, my first Fantasy game of the year. I dusted off my
Lizardmen for a 2,000 points bout against Matt's High Elves. I got
trashed. I'm not a man to blame the dice but the simple fact is the
Lizardmen are designed to tear things apart in close combat and my
charge rolls were just not ideal. Still, better luck next time.
On to more
substantial progress:
Let's start
with the smallest thing first because my camera just wouldn't focus
on them (the odd blue shadow, however, is just going to be in all
this week's pictures, sorry-pardon), a pair of Genestealer Cults
Familiars from the Broodcoven box set.
Still, at
least the picture manages to capture the one effect on these I'm
actually proud of (mostly they're just my standard Tyranids colour
scheme but littler) and that's the murky white on the right-hand
Familiar's loincloth achieved through drybrushing Pallid Wych Flesh
into partially dried Agrax Earthshade over a Rakarth Flesh base.
There's probably nowhere else to use this method in the entire army
but it came out a treat.
I'm also
trying something different for the Cults' bases. Right now they're an
adjunct to my Tyranids but I want them to be an army of their own
down the line. I'm thinking of a desert world theme and that's what
I'm going for here. I think the base colour works but I'm not sure
the Rhinox Hide rim works. Still, its the one part of a model that
can always be easily repainted.
As to their
larger cousins of Hive Fleet Jormungandr, first up we have a model it
has taken my simply ages to finish, the Tervigon (again, apologies
for that odd blue shadow that keeps cropping up, I can't work out
where it came from):
A good boy,
a round boy, I'm sure you'll agree. Once again we return to my
constant shilly-shallying over whether to undercoat these miniatures
grey or bone because this was done with the Zandri Dust spray and the
carapace has come out better here than on any other model. However, I
had to spend multiple painting sessions getting a consistent grey on
the skin. Worth it, though.
I also
polished off a small unit of Genestealers with scything talons and
rending claws. This is the first large unit I've finished for the
Tyranids and I love how the colour scheme works.
The Marines
Malevolent Deathwatch Kill-Marine is done.
This was a
pilot model and now I have the methods down I really want to step up
production on the rest of the unit. The Stormcast Eternal-themed
golds are really good, I was surprised to discover. They looked
rather thin in the pot but they went on in one coat over the black.
It was also nice to get a good, consistent yellow on the shoulder
pad. Props once again Pop Goes The Monkey for his excellent 3D
printed Deathwatch shoulder pads.
Finally, we
have the cutest herald of plague and despair...
… the
Beast Of Nurgle. I love its silly little expression, its little wave
as if its just pleased to see the people its going to kill. This
model was so much fun to paint and yet so easy. The different areas
of colour are so well delineated. I also tried a new pale flesh
method on the belly: Rakarth Flesh, Reikland Fleshshade and a Pallid
Wych Flesh drybrush. I think I might try it on my Dark Elves down the
line.
Anyway,
that's Fractional Progress February done! I've completed twenty-three
models and that's more painting than I've done in a good long while.
50/500
Challenge Hobby Tracker
Death Guard
and Nurgle Daemons: 1 model / 2 power
Deathwatch:
1 model / 0 power
Genestealer
Cults: 2 models / 0 power
Lizardmen: 6
models / 30 points
Tyranids: 13
models / 31 power levels
Total
Models Painted
23
Tyranids are now 31 power strong, that's more than
halfway to hitting the 50 power target. Obviously, the Kill-Marine
doesn't constitute a complete unit and the Familiars aren't worth
power levels so those projects are still at zero but that's still
models finished so they count.