Fully painted Tyranid shrike and more..

S here again, on a roll it seems with the posting ^_^ Without futher ado..

 

 

 

On another note, I know I said some time ago that I was crap at painting faces and would therefore be staying away from space marines  but....i've changed my mind. I plan to start collecting the Flesh Tearers chapter of Space Marines!! Actually I knew a while back that I wouldn't be keeping to that statement and have been researching chapers for a lil bit. I will still be playing as and collecting more Nids in the immediate future because I  have a lot of work to do creating an army list and reading up on space marine rules *GULP*

 Above pic from www.gamesworkshop.com


A couple of pics from our weekend game of necromunda. Spot the bridge to nowhere haha I was playing as Cawdor temporarily while waiting for new bases for my Delaque that I managed to melt....long story.

 

Allan's beautifully painted gang takes an ass whooping before beating me down.

Lastest Nomad ganger conversion. Armed with boltgun and a very fetching green stuff hooded top :D

Sneak peak of 1st completed nid shrike & more ashwaste nomads

Hi all!
S here hoping you all are having a great weekend. I started painting one of my shrikes early this afternoon thinking that I could finish it in good time and take some good pics with the great light of today but alas I ended up getting less and less relaxed as I noticed the light gradually started to fade.

I started seeing the task I set myself turn from abc to the chinese alphabet as I kept finding flaws and general unfinishedness...I still hesitate to call it finshed as it stands but I wanted to share the one decent picture I took and promise to post a BUNCH tommorow when I have time on my side (and the sun doesn't seem to me like it's darting across the sky...pffft stupid sun)

Below are a few more pictures of Allan's Ashwaste nomads. I think this guy he converted looks awesome. He found some really great gas mask heads on Ebay and practically made the guy from bits and bobs of other models. He made the the hood and back pack on this heavy out of green stuff and the last pic is of the 1st leader/ganger from his Cawdor gang which he has just started painting.

two more nomads complete

I won't be using either of these guys to start the campaign this weekend but i recieved the bits i ordered in the mail today and couldn't resist building them both. I have built a heavy with autopistol and heavy bolter out of 3rd party 28mm scale head and chaos space marine arms and heavy bolter space marine torso and the rest is mostly green stuff.

I'm really happy with how this mini came out in the end cept the arms look to space marineeee for my liking other than that he looks cool i like how the hood turned out well atleast how it looks from the front lol

The second nomad i built is a ganger with lasgun, he is not so cool looking. The head and torso are that of a chaos renegade from forgeworld and the legs and right arm are from the original plastic orlock gangers you got from the necromunda box set. However the left arm is a chaos space marine arm and bits of greenstuff  a real crappy part of an otherwise smoove conversion I will file it down before i prime the model.

I'll probably post again tommorow about what I don't know yet, all I really care about right now blog wise is doing some more video battle reports but this time for necromunda. However never fear 40k is way too important to us at FdMIni painting to forget about, but it is good to keep things fresh for the community and ourselves thanks for reading.

Ratskin scout finnished and other bits and bobs

Incidently one of my ash waste nomads is called Bob ..... anyways I finnished painting the ratskin but i completely failed to strip the old paint off gave up and jus painted over the top of the decade old previous paintjob so he looks a bit sketchy, anyway here he is.

Also I have ordered a tonne of bits from various websites to help me build more nomads for necromunda but alas they have not yet arrived so i thought id start with what bits i do have ...  here is what is going to be my second heavy in the gang he is going to be armed with a heavy bolter and a auto pistol. I used alot of green stuff mostly to cover up the fact his torso is a spacemarine torso.  I'm also going to re paint my old cawdor gang aswell and write out a roster for them in preperation for our campaign. I've got S heavily into necromunda now and one of my 40k buddies is on it too... exciting times at FDminis !


Talking about S ... she built this piece of scenery ages ago you may have spotted it in some of our 40k bat reps. It is foam board and gw plastic in construction and she painted it with some cool rust effects.

I also went a bit nuts with the foam board and built a huge ruin for 40k games and sprayed it grey the spray was intended for models but is too thick. One more random pic of me (with said spray can) ... why you ask? I'm not quite sure...  i like the picture i guess. 

Last tyranid shrike green stuff conversion (lash whip and bones sword)

As promised here is my last shrike with lash whip and bone sword . I actually started making this before I saw them due to be released in WD and I did feel a bit disappointed, but actually I really like my take on the biomorphs. I've just been really lazy to post these pics because I didn't really like the pose but here it is.

The lash whip has spikes taken from spare bits and I just used a reconfigured scything talon to make a bone sword and made a bigger blade on top of it with GS like i'd seen done online so many times. Looks kinda strange but should blend in almost perfectly when primed and painted.

Next pics of them will be fully painted!

Necromunda ash waste nomads finished ...almost :)

So I actually did some serious painting for a change and reached my goal to finish my entire gang (minus one ratskin scout) in two days so i could play necromunda with a painted gang ...awesome!

Here is a group shot of the gang 'alarnius's nomads' lol

And the following pics are from top to bottom: juve with stub gun, juve with auto pistol, ganger with auto gun, ganger with plasma pistol chainsword and autogun, heavy with plasma pistol chainsword and heavy stubber, leader with boltgun and autopistol.

Don't worry we are not leaving 40k not even for a bit lol

necromunda! back to the underhive :D

Hi there... We recently sold all of our necromunda scenery oop stuff on ebay. two months later I decide I'm going to play it again and two days after that im completely obsessed with the notion and kickin myself for selling the irreplaceable scenery.

Well with my new found fondness of foam board and turnin it to terrain ....CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! I'm going to build some proper terrain not jus the usual ruins i make for games of 40k anyways for now you will have to make do with pictures of my ash waste nomad gang... enjoy

P.S points and cookies to whoever can guess the bits i used for the various conversions.
This first Juve is armed with a stub gun (he was built 11 years ago when i was a wee lad!)

Same with this juve i built him years ago but he looks a bit better he is armed with an auto pistol.

This model is a ganger with chainsword plasma pistol and auto gun

This nomad is a ganger armed with simply an auto gun

This is a conversion i did yesterday and is my favourite model in the gang its the heavy, he is armed with chainsword plasma pistol and heavy stubber ! he is going to look awesome !

Last but not least in fact most importantly the gang leader of the ash waste gang armed with bolt gun and auto pistol.

I have three other gangs to prime and paint and play with from back in  the day damn im excited might have to put 40k on hold for the weekend :S to find out what other gangs i have feel free to sub or comment lol