A Hive Mind awakens...Some old school 2nd Ed Tyranids

I have wanted a 2nd ed 40k tyranid force for a very long time. My first models for it were the genestealers from Space Hulk, and a lictor I bought at Intergalactic Trading Zone in the mid to late 90's.

 When a friend from the gaming group decided to give 2nd ed 40k a go, I jumped at the chance to paint up some. So here are my efforts, in the original schemes too.

 

You can't have a legal list without a Hive Tyrant. Picked up a metal one and fixed it up. Contrasts do a lot of heavy lifting here, but I really enjoyed the wet blending. Also my ancient lictor finally got some love it deserved after 30 years in my bits box.

I love the original hormaguants. I do want a lot more!

Some old metal warriors. Again, the blending was a lot of fun here. 

My force all ready to go. My Blood Angels are looking very hard pressed! I think they needs some reinforcements!
 

Anyways, thanks for looking. I do plan on taking photos of our game when we get round to it.  

Blood Angels 2nd Edition update

It has taken me a little time, but I have finally finished s bunch of Blood Angels. I have mainly painted these at night during the work week, which is rare as I normally have no energy to do anything other than just crash, so it was nice to be productive.

 

This was a very generous gift from a friend in exchange for basing his army. Unfortunately it was one metal marine short, but since their was a battle standard model, thought it would fit one nicely.

I also got to finish my librarian in terminator armour.

He can now join me in 2nd ed, and also in Space Hulk.

 

Finally, I also finished this model. Compulsory in 2nd ed for the vehicle access, I now need some vehicles to add to the force.

This does now give me about 1000 points of painted models for the Blood Angels. Very pleased with that!

Thanks for looking!
 

Mordheim Maneater Warband

Apologies for the hiatus. As always I have been busy with painting, just not with updating. I feel that mentally sometimes I think typing this up is harder than it really is! 

Still, the new year saw me get really into Bolt Action, but I will post my models of that another time.

This past Friday, the gaming group started a new Mordheim campaign, Empire in Flames. For this campaign, I decided to paint my awesome old Imperial Ogres and Halflings and use them as a Maneater warband. I mainly did this as I have wanted to paint them for ages, and I can now use them for my Empire army in TOW.

I decided to do them in different uniforms for the different provinces, as they are mercenaries and I thought it would look cool. Very happy with them.

I also painted up 2 of these for the warband. I figure in normal games they will accompany my cavalry as Heimerdinger's big cats. They had to be tigers as that is my sons favourite animal.

Some halflings done for the warband. They count as gnoblar fighters, but I have had these sitting there for decades. Unfortunately I only have 7, so I will have to track down a command group one day.

 An here are some shots of the night. 10 players, 5 games on the go. My terrain was a big work in progress, but since my warband is complete, I can focus on that.

 

This amazing board was a pleasure to play on. 

Ogres first game, I went straight for the heights!

Ogre game 2 against some Skaven. 

Was good fun and lots of laughs. 

 Thanks for looking.