Sheeps new nids

[sheep]

Double post! Oh the shame

So, I've been uncommonly productive of late, and I'll need to maintain it to finish the 7 montrous creatures (one of them is a pod, but its pretty big so I'm counting it too) in 6 days I have left *sigh*

Anyway, finished the paint on the Doom. Now I just have to sort out how I'm going to do the jungle bases, I have some plastic aquarium plants, I have to figure out how to paint them and then them mount them.







I'm really inordinately happy with the SM scheme on the bases too

Thanks for looking.

[sheep]

Another couple of days have passed, 4 days til my deadline! To prove I'm not slacking heres a couple of pics of my latest work.

The 2 mawlocs will be used in the list to hit back field units like longfangs and whirlwinds, pop cans to get the juicy meat out and otherwise just cause a nuisance, like daemonic whack a moles, and take the heat off my spawners as they waddle up the field. Thats the plan anyway.





Not the greatest of angles on the second one, but its an awkward pose to photograph, I'll try again later.

[Vitruvian XVII]

Wonderful scheme!!!

[Pekel]

You're a machine! Love the pose on the second Mawloc!

[Dark Apostle]

The Mawlocks are absolutely brilliant!

[Angelwing]

Great stuff. The mawlocs are fab.

[Teku]

very awesome looking mawlocs!

[silverstu]

Love the mawlocks- the posing is fantastic!

[Cap'n Facebeard]

Great pose! I had been thinking of doing something similar with a cityfight-style base, so thanks for showing me how good it can look.

[Melchiah]

Awesome work as always sheep, keep it up!

[Rogerio]

Wow, amazing work mate really really good stuff. The nids have the best models done by GW imo next to the DE.

[Machinepriest]

Haha! Damnit, Melchiah beat me to it!
Your Tyranids look awesome Sheep
A very refreshing scheme!

[sheep]

Awesome work as always sheep, keep it up!

Lol, thanks mate.

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Finished! Pic taken during the beauty pagent at the tournament this weekend, where I'm happy to report I won best painted

I'll take some pics of the tervigons individually soon, but thought a "proof of life" picture would be nice

Thanks to everyone for the comments and support, I think I'll give myself more then 2 weeks to paint my next army.

Cheers

Sheep

[Captain Marius]

Incredible looking army, I love the conversions on the tyrannofex and mawlocs! congrats on winning best painted at the tourney, how did the army perform in game?

[sheep]

The army performed fairly well in game, having a draw against razor spam BA's, a minor loss to CSM (9 obliterators, 2x lash), major loss to CSM (2x defiler, dread, 2 princes, obliterators), a major win against a fairly fluffy SW list (4 Twolves, Twolf lord, rune priest, wolf priest, longfangs, redeemer, 30x grey hunters), and a minor win against a fellow nid (9 hive guard, 2 tervigons, t-fex, prime)

One thing I found was the lack of mobility hampered me in dealing with tanks, especially on terrain heavy tables, the base sizes of the multiple monstrous creatures really hampered my ability to move, and spawning gants compounded this.

Overall I fairly happy with them, and think with a few minor changes (maybe drop one tervigon, prime and a small squad of combat warriors, or hormaogaunts, or trygon) it could become a really challenging list to play against.

Cheers

Sheep

[Colonel Jacka]

Not bad "Nid" lover. Hope your not climbing any more wall's mate!

[sheep]

Thanks boss, not climbing any more walls for a while, wqlkings a bit of a challenge ATM.

But you'll be happy to know I'm thinking of doing something imperial next, or more chaos power armour. .

[Colonel Jacka]

Thanks boss, not climbing any more walls for a while, walkings a bit of a challenge ATM. But you'll be happy to know I'm thinking of doing something imperial next, or more chaos power armour. .

Look forward to it Sheep! Imperial not Chaos that is! LoL.

[sheep]

I lied

Construction and painting tut on my blog

Cheers

Sheep

[harlekin]

Those are hive guards, eh? They look pretty sweet.
But your Mawlock conversion (the dualmouth) is so much ftw... I'm overwhelmed^^