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Finally a new mini to share! Behold, Angron!

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A little bit of festive cheer (apologies for the deviation from mini painting!)

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Finally finished!

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Almost there...

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It's slowly coming together (it's only taken 2 years to get to this point!)

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I've been gone a while, with things happening in life etc. But I've started painting (slowly) again recently. First up, two more zombies to add to the 'done' pile.

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Some better photos of the trench-style base for my Chaos Knight.

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Based up the Tyrannofex.

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More basing work, sorry for bad photo quality! Calling this done for now, but may add some extra details some other time.

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At the moment I'm working through my backlog of minis to be based, starting with this Eldar/Craftworlds jetbiker.

Simple but effective, I'm quite happy with this experiment.

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Tyranid Tyrannofex, quite happy with this, though not perfect. Still needs basing. Plus a bonus family photo with some hormagaunts!

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I actually never named this, or fielded it in battle. But now, using inspiration from an online Tyranid name generator (https://www.realmofplastic.com/warhammer-40k-blog/tyranids-character-name-generator) I name this... thing... the Green Fiend. One of a just a few such observed spiderfexes, if a cursory google search is to be believed.

Throwback alert

My brother found this while clearing out my old room, a 'kitbashed' Tyranid of mine back from the old days:

Bad conversion, bad paint job, bad basing, but a fun idea anyway. And a good chance to see how far I've come since then, especially since I'm working on a big Tyranid model right now too. Funny how my current Tyranid colour scheme isn't a million miles away from this one though!

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I like the idea, but looking back on it now (this is around 15years old I think!) I can see that it was executed quite sloppily and rushed. I would love to try kitbashing Tyranids again in the future, but GW don't seem to give you the same amount of spare parts they used to. That and a general lack of time mean it will probably be a few years before I get round to a 2nd attempt!

Throwback alert

My brother found this while clearing out my old room, a 'kitbashed' Tyranid of mine back from the old days:

Bad conversion, bad paint job, bad basing, but a fun idea anyway. And a good chance to see how far I've come since then, especially since I'm working on a big Tyranid model right now too. Funny how my current Tyranid colour scheme isn't a million miles away from this one though!

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Throwback alert

My brother found this while clearing out my old room, a 'kitbashed' Tyranid of mine back from the old days:

Bad conversion, bad paint job, bad basing, but a fun idea anyway. And a good chance to see how far I've come since then, especially since I'm working on a big Tyranid model right now too. Funny how my current Tyranid colour scheme isn't a million miles away from this one though!

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Just a few tidy-ups and the final varnish to do, but basically finished.

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Legs assembled and more or less finished now. I'm very happy with the weathering effects throughout! Still deciding if I want to put something on the banner; on the one hand I'm not a fan of transfers but on the other it looks a bit empty as it currently is. Maybe if I can find/make a good template I can paint something on?

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Some more progress. Nearly finished with the legs now! Will post better photos when it's all done and assembled.