Hormagants

So here's my scheme on a hormagant.....

They're heeeeeere!

So my first major achievement since rejoining the world of 40k - I've completed my first whole unit. They're not amazingly pretty but they'll look a lot better on the tabletop than bare plastic!

Latest Additions

I'm getting closer to finishing my first 40k unit but I'm also working on building a competitive 1500 point army. To that end I spent yesterday building a couple of new models. Enjoy!

It lives!

For all my dedicated followers (yes you…. that one there) fear not; I’ve not posted in a while but I’m still working hard on Hive Fleet Nom Nom (as my tyranid army has become known). The main reason I’ve not been posting is because I wanted to have something new and significant to show you. I now have over 1000 points of tyranids built which I suppose qualifies but for the last few weeks I’ve been working on finishing my first whole unit.

I’m working on a unit of 20 termagants and such is my desire to get them done I’ve brought some in to work with me today to do at lunchtime. I’ll get some pics of the finished unit along with the rest of my force in the next few days.

My first attempts with greenstuff.

I bought some greenstuff months ago and have been far too nervous to actually try doing anything with it. I spent today constructing my Hive Tyrant and decided that such an imposing mini deserved a decent base so I tried to make a marine casualty using some bits and greenstuff.

It's not brilliant but I was happy enough to include it on the base. Once it's painted up it should look great.

The stuff is easy to work with, like stiff blutack, and it takes plenty of time to harden properly so if you're a bit clumsy or indecisive you have time to get it how you want it.

The Infestation Grows.

After a busy day filing and sniffing glue my growing Tyranid horde now includes 16 Hormagants and 8 Genestealers. The Genestealers are great models and well put together on the sprues.... the Hormagants however are the worst moulded minis I've ever built. Don't get me wrong, they look great when complete, but I spent so much time filing each part of each model to remove mould lines that it took me the entire day to put 24 'nids together.

Just 16 more Termagants, 3 Warriors and a Hive Tyrant to build and I'll have my first 1000 point army.

Ripper Swarms

Just to make sure my scheme works on minis other than Termagants I tried a couple of ripper swarms (I've fixed the blobby eye on the first pic now).

nom nom nom!