Tyranid Malanthrope and Mawloc

Inger Helene and I decided to play Tyranids at the friendly doubles tournament in Warhammer world (Nottingham) in April 2016.

It has been a while since I built and painted models for this army; It was great fun when Jørn gave my son, who has participated in painting “our Tyranid army” (since the Battle for Macragge starter set came) a Imperial Armour book containing the Forge World range of Tyranid models.

After evaluating different Forge World units, Inger Helene gave me a grand birthday present, two Malanthropes! It was great fun building and painting them. However, I decided not to go with the stands/bases they where fitted with from Forgeworld, and we build our own. This is how they turned out.

Malanthropes

To get the right "team spirit" and "team feeling for the army", Inger Helene built a second Mawloc. She had great fun posing it, and I tried to create a stand/base that gives the impression of the mighty beast breaking its way up from underneath the surface.

Mawloc

After test playing, the only thing remaining to complete our tournament army is to finish some more Troops and Object Markers (and my son has started painting a mighty Tyranid beast of his own…). I will post pictures when they are finished.

Cheers,

Ørnulv

Linus' Raven Guard project part 1

So, finally a unit finalizing first step in a hopefully longlived and fun hobby project.

Sorry for the bad pics - black is't easy. I guess the best would be somwhere between the ones with flash and the ones without,

I landed on some blue/grey highligting on the armour, finishing off with subtle edge highlighting. Time consuming, but I think it ended up ok. The lines could always get better though, but some time you just have to say stop and go on. Please say what you miss, what you think I have left out and what could have been done better.

I know there is no such thing as weathering or other worn effects here. Not sure I want that. What do you think? I will be using som weathering techniques on some vehicles, though...

The only thing missing now is the squad numbers flying in from China and the sergeant's power weapon.

Next up: Shrike, Korvidae and Solaq, then a couple of vehicles and of course finishing the knight from last summer.

Cheers

Dark Eldar – Talos and Cronos Pain Engine – Ørnulvs #1 Dark Eldar project 2016

I just love these models. Great fun to build, magnetize and create appropriate bases. Of course I had to tie them in to the rest of my Dark Eldar army, trying to be consistent with the colour scheme, and at the same time trying to make them stand out as unique.

The closest resemblance is of course my Grotesques.

Cronos

Talos with Liquefier gun

Talos with iqor injector

Follow me my children...

Next; time for some arena gladiators :)
Cheers,

Ørnulv

Black Templars - Landraider Redeemer and Assault Terminators with Chaplain

In order to get my Black Templars army up to 1500p, I decided to build a Landraider Redeemer.

To accompany it I decided to go with Assault Terminators, and of course, a Chaplain in terminator armour.

Next project, Ironclad Dreadnought:)

I am Alpharius - We're going!

So... It appears we're going to the recently announced "I am Aplharius" 40K doubles event weekend that's being held at Warhammer World April 16th and 17th. We're sending over a 'Gang of Four' again; Inger Helene, Ørnulv, Tom-Erik and myself.

Tickets and accommodation has all been taken care of, so all that remains is to figure out which armies and models we'll be bringing along. My initial thoughts is that each pair of lists should be able to support and complement each other, while still allowing for the possibilities of differing agendas developing.

The 2 x 1010 points format too is... interesting. It's tempting to just take the Team Tournament lists from Adepticon last year, but I have been painting (and then building!) quite a lot of models since then...

Are any of you readers out there on the Intertubes thinking of going?
(Click the picture above to go to the Warhammer World event page.)


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