Swarmlord (Part 2)

 It's been a while since I posted Part 1 of this saga of the Swarmlord, but the desire to throw paint on him can no longer be restrained. That, and I wanted a break from my recent Old World focus.  Don't get me wrong, I am loving all that fantasy stuff after so many years away from it, but I was having fun working on the nids a few years ago and was recently feeling a bit bummed that I didn't finish this army. 

Primed.

So I decided to do something about it. 

I basecoated the model using Contrast Paints (Luxion Purple, Ultramarines Blue, and Skeleton Horde), Chaos Black Citadel Color and Applebarrel Indian Red. A lot of my color choices are somewhat in line with the choices I made on Old One Eye  awhile back as well as my original Screamer Killer model. 

Basecoated.

For the swords (including the one growing out of his head) I applied a thinned Khorne Red along the edges. 

Khorne Red blades. 

And so far, he is looking pretty much battle-ready.  But I'm not going to settle for just that, so stay tuned for the next steps! 

Swarmlord (Part 1)

 Building up the Tyranids has been fun so far, and one of the jewels of my collection, and the army as a whole, is the Swarmlord. This was a gift from Mrs  Neverness for Father's Day 2023 so it ment a lot to me to get this critter built sooner than later. 

Freshly assembled. 

He was a fun kit to assemble but I wanted a special base for him. I found a molded base in bits drawer that I thought would work out well. Additionally I wanted some Astartes bits to scatter on it also. 

Dropped pistol.

The pistol is left over from a kit bash I did on an Assault Intercessor Sergeant.  I had a pistol grip left over from an old gun that I stuck on it to complete the look. 

Dropped head. 

The head is also a leftover from the Assault Intercessor kit. I will likely paint the helm as an Ultramarine but the temptation to paint it like a Black Dragon is pretty strong also...

He is now primed and ready for painting, and hopefully I can get him done during my many weeks of post-op recovery. But we'll see...