Castle Hertford

For my birthday I was lucky enough to be given one of tabletopworkshop's new plastic castles.  I have The standard castle set. Here's the parts:

I've built the gates and most if the walls.  I'm still not sure how to set the towers up.  I don't want necessarily a square castle but really not sure...

Already tempted to expand it with more walls...

Tyranids, part 1

I got a box of the new Zonathropes Saturday and promptly built them.  I really like the kit and the options and will fill out the unit with two more and a neurothrope.  Probably will get some more to make a brood of venomthropes too.  I got some paint on the first one yesterday.  I'm thinking of painting the claws darker, just to bring them out more.  Also I may wash round the mouth with some red.  Got to meditate on these...

And sort out the base...

On to the pictures:

Tau, part 3

A rescued ebay Hammerhead I'm working on.

Flat blocked in colours, red white and grey.  The battle damage.  Then gloss varnish, thick oil wash and a lot of scrubbing.  The right engine still needs some work and a lot of touch up may be needed after varnishing.

Tau, part 2

This is my Tau commander, a crisis suit with two missile pods, a drone controller and target array.  The head is from my Riptide.  The marker light drones are converted with spare crisis bits.  The arms are not attached yet so I can paint them separately.

I'm looking to get the base done tomorrow, then undercoat at the weekend weather permitting.

Tau

Recently I got the urge to paint some Tau.  I sold off the few models I had at the start of the year to a friend, so I went on eBay to get some more.  I kinda wish in retrospect that I had just bought Virgin boxes as striping the paint has Been painfully tedious and many are missing comms. 

The colour scheme is the old cities of death cover, red with white armour.

Onslaught Miniatures OTC, part 2

A little update on the OTC miniatures, a infantry test stand complete.  This is based on the excellent Trouble Maker Games bases.  Still need to add greenery but otherwise complete.

Progress on the test tank, it just needs basing.

Here's a picture of everything assembled so far.

I have a lot of tanks, suits and infantry left to assemble.  More updates soon!

Onslaught miniatures OTC

I've recently been building an army of the excellent OTC miniatures from Onslaught Miniatures.

This is the paint test mini!