Redscorps aka Bad Credentials - Painting and Modelling

Small amount of progress again this week after getting the Hive Guard finished last week, I'm struggling with the Mojo a bit lately!  I'm quite proud of the wet blending result on the big dog's horn, I have never been very good at it but decided to try and up my game with the brush and give it a go. I used GW acrylics, Abbadon Black to Gorthor Brown and topped it off with Rakarth Flesh. Each was mixed with a drop of AK Interactives Acrylic Drying Retarder and blocked in place before being feathered together. The rest of his body is coming along well, I've got it about 60% done at the moment and should finish it off over the weekend.  

These kinda turned out ok, they have to be a little dark as the models themselves are quite dark but I still need to figure out the colour balance a bit better so I can get the red to pop without turning the rest of the model into a neon disaster. Also excuse the photo of the gants, must have bumped the camera. So everything I have painted now is done, I'm working on Hive Guard now, the new kit is really slick!

I can only really paint one, maybe two days a week if I am lucky so progress is quite slow. I pulled a big day last week though and was really happy with how the Warriors came out, I added some red blood splatter to these cats as they are often at the front of the swarm ploughing into the enemy lines trying to help (often, futile efforts). I've taken a couple of more detailed pics of the Tervigon and the Tyranid Warriors and this weeks painting effort was centred around 10 new Termagants who are near(ish) completion, with the line highlight, blue wash of the carapace then gloss coating it, OSL type eyes and a few little details remaining to finish the models. I am going to do a mad day of basing all these guys soon actually, I just really don't enjoy that as much as painting the models themselves so I would prefer to do it all in a big block.

X-25 Tamiya Clear Green is probably my favourite thing at the moment. I mixed it in with a few different GW paints to get the kind of slime look that I wanted on the Tervigon and it's base and I'm really happy with the result.  So as far as progress goes I finished the Tervigon on Monday, and based both that and the Mucolid. The Warriors I started yesterday and are not far away from the finishing touches now. The Termagants need basing.  I'm pretty happy with how it's all coming along:

So I made a bit of progress today which feels really good! I have been fighting for time lately around girlfriend, work and sport time commitments mean at best I can paint for a bit on a Monday or Tuesday. I'm pretty happy with how the big spore bomb has come out, I still have to finish the base and add a few minor details but the bulk is done. The Tervigon has quite a way to go, I've been working my way back from the front end with the head and spawned 'gants finished. I had a real win too with the Tamiya Clear Red X-27 I normally use for blood effects also being available in green (X-25) which I have sponged and stippled on to the front end where they are bursting out. It looks gross, cool!

Tyranids, 500pts.. I had only seen this going poorly. With the Adepticon: Combat Patrol rules we were using restricting models other than troops to 2 wounds max, and a restriction in usable slots, I went with the best list I could figure for the value while still getting a hefty MC on the ground to punch it out. I listed it out in the previous post but here it is again for context: 1x Venomthrope 30x Termagants - Fleshborers 1x Tervigon - Adrenal Glands, Toxin Sacs, Electroshock Grubs, Stinger Salvo, Scything Talons 3x Warriors - Deathspitters, Scything Talons The first match was against MB with 30k Legion Marines, he had: 10x Legion Tac Marines 1x Contemptor Dread - 2x Kheres Assault Cannons 1x Sicarian Battle Tank - JerkCannons and Heavy Bolter Sponsons It was a match up that kinda petrified me as I could just see him tearing apart the Tervigon and the whole mess coming undone as I was left with 30 useless 'gants and a bunch of Warriors that couldn...

I had the little bobble head of the Mucolid staring at me as I clipped the Tyrannocyte bits and pieces from the sprue, I wanted to build one (15pts for a troop, so sweet! Gimme more MC's) but I wasn't going to go to the effort that some others have of GS'ing tentacles from scratch or acquiring bits I didn't already have just to build it. I robbed one of the support tentacles from the Tyrannocytes requirements and re-jigged the lower outer tentacle configuration of the giant egg so I could still fill the empty socket with one of the auxiliary non-support tentacles. Having also built the Harpy this weekend gone, it jumped at me that the Tentaclids left over from the Crone components of the kit had some sweet little trailing tentacles with the same aesthetic as the Tyrannocyte tentacles. Mounting the Mucolid dome on the #47 tentacle I robbed, I cut down the Tentaclids, glued them in and GS'd a bit of detail to join them in to the rest of the model. The blank circ...

Well, that didn't exactly go to plan! I went and repainted all the carapace with whatever Deneb stone is called these days then flashed over the top of it with a few coats of this snazzy orange. I was pretty happy with that result, but then trying to chip/stipple/spot the edges as was shown in the drawings, impossible! You can't get decent coverage on the back plates without hitting the stacks and it just looks messy.  I've pulled the pin, back to super high gloss black with a blue wash and a bit of edge highlighting I think, I don't like the look of the feathered edges GW does so I will keep it simple.

So pretty much everything I have was second hand save for the Flyrant, 8 of the Stealers and the Tervigon. I bought a bit of the second hand stuff from a local dude, Chris, and my friend Wozz gave me a bunch of other stuff as well, all in it's just over 2k. So much work! I've prepped 8 of the stealers, both tyrants, both carnifexes, 6 warriors, 30 gaunts, lictor, tyrannofex, tervigon and the ripper swarms. The other 55 gaunts and gants still need mold lines and injection points removed as do 26 stealers, 3 raveners and the 21 spore mines. It's hard to work with pre-built and in cases pre-painted stuff too, I've been trying my best to break the models apart gently so I can clean them up and reassemble for painting but it's a slow process and I only feel like I'm making headway really once the primer goes on. Redscorps

Yes, HF Harvest. Yeha! Once more into the hobby breach we go. I painted this guy last week in a slightly modified HF Behemoth Scheme as my first miniature in maybe 4 years: Read more to read more:...