Hive Fleet Leviathan INCOMING! - Warrior Brood - 03/24/10 - Warhammer 40k Forums

**Praelium** · **Posted:** 24 Jan 2010, 05:17

The biggest and baddest Hive Fleet is on my table and ready! I am taking a break from Space Marines and beginning Tyranids, I was going to a month or two ago but figured I'd wait until the new Codex came out. Also my birthday is in a couple weeks

So far what I have for Tyranids is one of the new Battleforces and a Trygon/Mawloc

I am going to pour blood (mmmm tasty!), sweat, and tears into this army and make it beautiful. At least that's the plan. I'll try to get in updates weekly but I can not guarantee anything with school and work.

This will be my new blog, if you want to check out my old one here

**MadHatter5045** · **Joined:** Mar 30 2008 **Posts:** 214 **Location:** USA

Can't wait to see how you do with these, your Marines were great. Remind me, what's the color scheme for Leviathan?

**Praelium** · **Posted:** 24 Jan 2010, 07:22

Leviathan is pretty much Ultramarines for nids, so whenever you see a box its those colors.

Heres a Trygon:

And your plague marines are better

**MadHatter5045** · **Joined:** Mar 30 2008 **Posts:** 214 **Location:** USA

Thanks. Can't wait to see these, especially the trygon/mawloc; which one is it going to be?

**Praelium** · **Posted:** 24 Jan 2010, 08:40

I'm not sure yet, I'll probably do both for my army and try to magnetize the maw if I can...but I like what the Trygon looks like the best so I'll do that if I can't manage to magnetize.

**Praelium** · **Posted:** 27 Jan 2010, 14:46

I'm in school right now so I have to be brief

When I get home I'll be putting a base coat on my built Gaunts and Warriors, I have about 8 Termagants, 4 Hormagaunts, and 3 Warriors built. The Trygon hasn't even been touched...I'm going to just base them and wash them tonight...I WOULD be painting some fully but I realize I don't have any purple...major fail on my part but I'll pull through

I made my own wash and tested it out on STS17's Tau so now he has pink Tau too!

**MadHatter5045** · **Joined:** Mar 30 2008 **Posts:** 214 **Location:** USA

lol pink = Slanesh Tau

**DrakeRo** · **Joined:** Jul 17 2009 **Posts:** 58

Praelium wrote:

I'm not sure yet, I'll probably do both for my army and try to magnetize the maw if I can...but I like what the Trygon looks like the best so I'll do that if I can't manage to magnetize.

It will be tricky to manage,i've just assembled my trygon and i think you can do the head all together if you by the bits from some were maybe the tail wont be that difficult asweel,all you need to figure out are the antennas ,or however are them called, on the back.

**Praelium** · **Posted:** 27 Jan 2010, 21:31

Ugh well that doesn't sound like a lot of fun at all

I'll do some searching on the interwebs for someone that may have already done it. It's currently last on my to-do list because it's such a gorgeous model I want to "master" the Leviathan scheme before attempting something like that...

As an actual update, I have based and washed my first batch of gaunts and warriors, I'll be getting some little amounts of work on their carapaces and weapons but nothing really post worthy...eh I'll toss a picture up if I feel like it

**Praelium** · **Posted:** 29 Jan 2010, 05:56

I'm not sure if I want to paint a mix of Skull White and Bleached Bone like on the Termagant or use just Bleached Bone like on the warrior...

Obviously these are majorly WIP, I don't want to continue without a solid plan of the skin tone. Maybe Bleached bone with a blend into Skull white on the edges of joints and such? Not sure...

HELP ME PLEASE!

**Andon** · **Posted:** 29 Jan 2010, 06:43

That nid on the right is aweosme. Seriously, awesome coloration.

**MadHatter5045** · **Joined:** Mar 30 2008 **Posts:** 214 **Location:** USA

I like the armor on the gaunt and the skin on the warrior. You might try bleached bone for the skin and blend black to purple on the armor. Then wash the armor purple, then with that excellent pink wash you created, then wash the whole model with badab black. You might try a test model with that, it might turn out completely different than what I'm thinking.

**Praelium** · **Posted:** 29 Jan 2010, 14:31

Well that gaunt was further down the line than my Warrior. But I didn't think of a black wash over the model after...hmm.

I'm definitely doing the black to purple fade on the armor, I just need to buy purple

**Fahrenheit** · **Joined:** Jan 29 2010 **Posts:** 67

I personally prefer the skin of the warrior, mix that with the armour of the gaunt and add some purple fading and it will look awesome.
*Thumbs up*

**Praelium** · **Posted:** 29 Jan 2010, 22:11

Well then I will just have to use the Warrior's skin tone then!

**Brother Michael** · **Posted:** 31 Jan 2010, 00:51

The skin of the right one is awesome. Just a little bit of white to things like the knuckles or cheek bones and it'll be perfect imo.

**Praelium** · **Posted:** 31 Jan 2010, 02:00

I'll be working on the Warrior tonight. I'll be sure to post pictures when it's done.

Good idea Brother Michael, I didn't think of doing that. Some small highlights on detailed areas like the knuckles would definitely add some better 3D to it.

Thanks!

**STS17** · **Joined:** Jul 14 2009 **Posts:** 576

Just as an Update - my Pink Tau look...interesting...to say the least. So much for my beautiful white army...*sniff*

**Fahrenheit** · **Joined:** Jan 29 2010 **Posts:** 67

STS17 wrote:

Just as an Update - my Pink Tau look...interesting...to say the least. So much for my beautiful white army...*sniff*

Am I the only one thats confused to why this post is even here?

**STS17** · **Joined:** Jul 14 2009 **Posts:** 576

Fahrenheit wrote:

STS17 wrote:

Just as an Update - my Pink Tau look...interesting...to say the least. So much for my beautiful white army...*sniff*

Am I the only one thats confused to why this post is even here?

Read the above posts. I am Praelium's brother and he "borrowed" one of my converted sniper drone spotters to test his paint scheme and self-made pink wash.