Hive fleet fnorrll project log!

[fnorrll]

I'm super excited- after about 3 years collecting nids, I'm finally going to start painting them lol.

I started today, and decided right off the bat to make up for lost time.



Got me primed then base sprayed. It's 40 termagants, 50 hormagants, 50 genestealers, 12 old style genestealers and 6 raveners just for when I want a bit more fun.

I'v since also give the termagants and more than half the hormagants a wash.

This is about maybe 80% of my infantry (not including my warriors). My plan is to do a pretty quick job on them and learn my technique as I go. Then I can do the last few units I have to a better standard before hitting up my MC's once I can paint better, and use the better painted stuff to play with more regularly.

Then of course I'll have more stuff to paint as I can't stop buying/collecting nids.

I'v still got a unit of hormagants, 2 units of termagants, a unit of gargoyles, 3/4 lictors, 3/4 zoanthropes, 2 brood lords, 15 warriors, 6 raveners, a doom and prime conversion, 3 hive guard, 5 tyrant guard, a tervigon and an arachnarok tervigon, a kitbash harpy, 6 carnifexes, 2 trygons, 2 mawlocks, a flyrant, a fw flyrant, a tyrant, a swarmlord, the now defunct sporepods, the obligatory rippers.... Did I miss anything?! I think I did... And of course more on the way.... So it's the beginning of a long project!

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[sunnyrobert]

Thats going to take some time :-)

Work on squads of 5-10 at a time so you get the "is it done yet?" Syndrome :-)

Cheers and have fun!

[appexpredator26]

love your color scheme green skin and green carapace. lol just kidding
massive army really cant wait for them getting ready to rip enemy, cant wait for my massive army order too. almost 3 weeks haven't receive it yet

[fnorrll]

Apr 20, 2014 8:52:37 GMT appexpredator26 said:

love your color scheme green skin and green carapace. lol just kidding
massive army really cant wait for them getting ready to rip enemy, cant wait for my massive army order too. almost 3 weeks haven't receive it yet

Hehehe yes just a green all over dark brown will be coming for the carapace.

They have been ripping the enemy lol but he claims moral victory for having a really nicely painted army so i have to get my finger out to deny him that objective ;-)

Hope your models arrive soon!


All washed!! Every last one





Time to start the drybrush...

[fnorrll]

Anyone have an opinion on this as a scheme?

[Davor]

Looks good. I think that is a good carapace colour to go with your skin. Just the edges need that bit of something. Keep it up.

[fnorrll]

I'm worried the whole thing is just too light and nondescript

[Davor]

Not at all. 2 colour schemes work great. At first I thought like you did but taking a look again, slowly this time, it works great. It's different and still looks good. Just the carapace needs a bit more lighter shade on it. Either feather in more white or just paint a lighter shade of brown/white on the edges. Once you colour in the bone showing through the skin, I think you will see it looks really nice.

[Inquisitor Stingray]

I like it as well. I would however advice that you also paint the sinewy-parts between appendages and the 'gills' on arms and legs. Maybe a brownish red color. The carapace looks great.

[abrahamlleida]

wow man! keep on it! a lot of work to do, but it's looking good!

[fnorrll]

Apr 20, 2014 22:19:57 GMT Davor said:

Not at all. 2 colour schemes work great. At first I thought like you did but taking a look again, slowly this time, it works great. It's different and still looks good. Just the carapace needs a bit more lighter shade on it. Either feather in more white or just paint a lighter shade of brown/white on the edges. Once you colour in the bone showing through the skin, I think you will see it looks really nice.

I darkened it a little and edged the carapace lighter. Thanks for all the encouragement!

Apr 21, 2014 16:21:58 GMT abrahamlleida said:

wow man! keep on it! a lot of work to do, but it's looking good!

Will do! Thanks!

Apr 21, 2014 1:35:10 GMT Inquisitor Stingray said:

I like it as well. I would however advice that you also paint the sinewy-parts between appendages and the 'gills' on arms and legs. Maybe a brownish red color. The carapace looks great.

As i say i darkened the carapace a little, hope everyone still likes it. Iv gone for purple as a contrasting colour on the gills, tongue etc just to add a little splash of pizazz.

Pics to follow. Thanks for all the encouragement hivers!

[fnorrll]

Pics of my test ravener, more or less complete











Sorry for the different lighting and the lack of focus in one or two.

C&C very welcome but keep in mind this is my first complete model in over a decade since i was a teenager slapping colours on stuff, and im only going for decent, quick, tabletop level.

As far as gribblies go...



Im painting the carapaces and hooves/talons etc. Started with the hormagants and i managed to do 16/50 a couple days ago but had no time to paint since then. Hope to carry on on saturday.

[Davor]

Apr 25, 2014 8:01:24 GMT fnorrll said:

Pics of my test ravener, more or less complete

Love the Carapace. Just great.

Now for 2nd pic here, while it's good, it's too green. I think the base ring, should be brown, (goes with the carapace, and that is what I do )

Now I am going by the pic, it can look different in real life. Look at the wash you did with your talons. This is what you need to do with the Rib Cage. Some ink or something, this way, the recesses will pop out more. As someone mentioned before, the fleshy parts needs to be done as well. I thought you were going to make them yellow (or was that another thread? Sorry if it was.) Also I think you forgot to do the carapace on the front of him.

Great job for something you didn't do for a very long time.

*edit* I noticed you don't need a wash on the rib cages, it's the carapace on the chest makes it looks like it needed a wash when I made my post the first time. Then I noticed it's the carapace that wasn't painted brown.

[fnorrll]

Is his six (eight) pack style thing meant to be carapace?! That would make sense, I thought it looked a bit bland too! I did the talons with a much lighter wash, maybe I could do that there as well.

I contemplated doing the ribs as well but wondering if I want to commit to doing it for all the models. Maybe just the larger ones. I'm not sure if a stark contrast like the bone colour would look good tho, that's why I went for a much lighter green. What do you think? Maybe I'll try it as bone...

Thanks for all your feedback Davor, it's much appreciated that you take the time really glad you like the darker carapace.

Oh and as for the tendon-yh things, I'm not sure yet what I want to do with them. I'm trying to go as natural as possible! Hence why I'm hesitant to over do it... Thoughts?

*edit* base ring?

[gorthaur]

I don't think the 8 pack I meant to be a carapace, its not layered and doesn't look like chitin. I think only the regular warriors have the chest carapace, particularly the prime variant. I would just paint a deeper wash into the chest crevices to define the detail more. But so far its looking good.