We are back again with more bright red, second edition alien gribblies!
Rank and File #2
So, this month was more of the same really, more termagants painted in the same style as last month's entry, however armed with different weapons, Spike Rifles:
Emboldened by my previous month's success I decided to add a few extra models on top of my original plans. I find that the most difficult thing I encounter when painting is settling on a scheme, once I have that down I can break the steps down into blocks and batch paint my way through units fairly easily. Therefore, adding models that follow my established scheme is pretty easy, thus I present to you the first of my surprise additions this month; a Biovore and three Spore Mines:
Finally, I have the first of what I consider "the advanced organisms" within the hive fleet. For certain models I plan to introduce blue as gradients over the parts of the model that I consider to be defining features. The first of these I painted this month:
As you can see the top half of the model here has that blue gradient, implying that the back claws/blades and the head (i.e., intelligence) are mutations or improvements that the lictor has over the rest of the swarm. Not sure if it really conveys that message as a model on its own but hopefully when you see some of the other models I use this technique it will make sense. I guess at worst case the blue breaks up the tide of red and makes for a slightly more interesting force to look at on the tabletop.
This month’s Rank and File submission is as follows:
|
UNIT |
EXTRAS |
# |
TOTAL |
|
Termagant Brood (6) |
Spike Rifle (1) |
12 |
84 |
|
Biovore (20) |
|
1 |
20 |
|
Spore Mines |
|
3 |
30 |
|
Lictor |
|
1 |
96 |
|
TOTAL |
230 |
||
Next month will be comprised entirely of new models (so no more Termagants for a while) including another new one not listed in my original target force.
There are some great forces coming together so far in the challenge with a crazy high standard of painting this year. Special shout out to Tom's Bad Moon Orks, he put out some amazing models this month so great job!
