Beastmen

A while back I had the opportunity to enter a painting competition at my local gaming store strategies. It had an original theme in that you could enter any miniatures from any game system so long as it comprised a "warband" and adhered to the genre. I didn't enter any vehicle categories but did enter sci-fi, to which I entered my now classic Eldar exarchs. Essentially they made up a Biel-Tan Court of the Young King. Which of course brought back fond memories of the old Eldar army I used to field. I also entered my Avatar which I posted pictures of earlier into the Monster category.


But the point of this post is of course the Beastmen that I entered into the Fantasy category. The Wargor had a good showing at the Conflict Warp Stone contest in Vancouver a few years back so he had to be in there. The others were just some choice models from the army.


I had to work the day of the contest winner announcments but managed to stop by afterwards to find that my Beastmen had won the fantasy category! I was really surprised as there was some stiff competition. And to add to the surprises there was also an award for Fan Favourite which was voted by attendees and the Beasties won that too!


I was able to select from a prize pot which was unfortunately rather picked over since I wasn't at the announcements, meaining all the minis were gone. I did get some great resin base sets from Micro Art Studios and the awesome P3 Wet Palette though like everyone else I just made my own it is really great to have a much cooler looking one now.


So if you have read this far it's probably a good time for the pictures!

`Nids

Starting to plan out a commission for a good friend of mine who has hired me to paint his copy of Space Hulk.

He requested that I paint all the models in a very non-space hulk theme. You can see a lot of this going on around the gaming community, which makes me really happy. Mostly because I get to remove all the Blood Angel iconography from the terminators. Who will then be painted in Raptors livery. I helped Nick design the colour scheme for his Raptor`s ages ago. So it will be fun to revisit them.

As for the Genestealers they really can be any colours at all. I would like to plan out the colours for them alongside the Marines so that the game looks good as a set.

I had a Warrior model primed up and came up with a first test model for the `nids. I have a unit of Genestealers from the Macragge set somewhere and when I find them I will spray them up and try out several other schemes.

So to make this post more than just too many words here are a few shots of the warrior:





system: Warhammer 40K
army: Tyranids
project: commission

AVATAR

This poor fellow sat around 90% finished for a long, long time and I decided to just pick him up and get him done. He is part of the Eldar army that I have been painting and gaming with for the past 11 years! It has seen many iterations and army lists. Still not sure if to add any designs to the tabard, I kind of like the solid colour.

system: Warhammer 40K
army: Craftworld Eldar
project: personal