Speed wash painting success!

Hey Loyal citizens, here's an update on my hormagaunt squad!

They aren't winning a golden demon or anything, but they only took 2 hours from priming to basing.  I just used white primer and three of GW's Shades line of washes.  Since I didn't plan ahead I didn't take pictures of the process unfortunately.  To rectify that I'll either buy another box of gaunts tonight or  use a carnifex to give you the photo step by step.  If anyone has any suggestions on what color I can use as an accent for bits like the tongues and the tubes on the larger bugs weapons and such, please leave a comment and let me know.

In other Warhammer 40k related news, I'm struggling to decide how to assemble the carnifex.  The optimal build for tyranids is definitely a dakkafex (2 sets of twin-linked devourers), but it just seems so sad to see this monster go the way of the rifleman dread and become a glorified gun platform.  I'm either going to build him as a Screamer Killer(2 sets of scything talons) or whatever it is the kids call a scything talon/Crushing claw carnifex, as those feel so much more flavorful.  I already had to go down this road with my flying tyrant, and went with the two sets of devourers, but rather than model him with those puny arms, I used the fleshborer hive bits from the Tyranofex kit as a counts as conversion. Pic Below:

 I'm waiting till I paint a few less significant big bugs before I take a crack at this model, not sure how my scheme will come across on bigger models.

New Year, New Army!

I had intended to update this blog regularly, and should have had a fully painted vampire army on my shelf by now.  It's depressingly obvious that I didn't even finish a box of skeletons.  the paint methods I used were just never going to get me through the amount of undead I had in front of me, and my regular life is just too busy for laborious paint methods.    I basically abandoned warhammer after that failed experiment.

  Recently, however, there was a boom at my Local gaming store for all things Games Workshop.  With this gain in popularity,  I decided that if I could find a way to paint faster and not hate my models, I could put an attractive army on the table before I get distracted by the Animaniacs.  Add to that the fact I recently purchased a new home that has a wonderful garage for my project, and I'm very excited for gaming in the old world and the 41st millenium.

 I have a teaser image of my first painted model for my new army..

This model took me (minus drying time, which there is a fair amount of during the method I used) about 10 minutes of mindlessly easy paint time.  I can live with 10 minutes or better per model.  in the next post, I'll go through my process of speed painting these, and I'll post a picture of my finished hormagaunt box!  Stay tuned kiddos.