Painting: Which Army?

Currently I'm trying to get my army painted away. I first had the hard time of deciding which army I wanted to paint first.

My Blood Angels army is all primered a reddish-brown and all my vehicles are basecoated Mechrite red. All my infantry is basecoated with Army Painter Dragon Red.

Let me go off on a tangent real quick...Army Painter Dragon Red has been quite inconsistent with me. YMMV but for me it hasn't been that great. I loved my first spray can I got of it and the sort of "burnt" blood red look it game. My second spray can of Dragon Red was very bright, almost as if it was Blood Red straight from the pot. First I thought it would have been the wrong paint I purchased but after double checking everything it was for sure Dragon Red. Posted on the forums about it and others have had the same problems...beware Army Painted Dragon Red. YMMV!

The Tyranids are all base-coated Blood Red and then dipped in a Minwax Antique Walnut. I did not feel like buying 4+ bottles of GW Devlan Mud nor did I want to waste time putting it on 80+ Gants, 20+ Stealers, 20+ Hormies, 20+ Gargoyles...etc.

After a long while I decided to paint my Tyranids first. Though I really wanted to get down a green eye glowing effect on my Space Marines. Sadly I'm not that great with the glazing effect and it failed.

I didn't like that both my BA and Tyranid armies were red so I decided to try different color schemes. Posted the pictures up on various forums and I'll let the people decide! So far most people are liking my Red > Fiery Orange > Rotting Flesh/Fiery Orange mix 1:1 > Rotting Flesh > Skull White scheme.

I'll post my pictures up right now before I end my post. Don't look at the models as a whole, look at them per carapace sections. I just used my warriors as test dummies to try out different schemes.

(The first image is the one most people are voting on. Lucky for me everything is already based red so it's the easiest for me to actually do. Woo! Lucky!)

Have a great night!

Syypher

And so it begins...L2A^3

Welcome and thank you for visiting my blog, L2A^3, short for Learn 2 Aliens And Angels. Here you will find strategy articles, battle reports (batreps) and painting, modeling and conversion posts. I will do my best to keep this updated as things progress with my armies and my tactical strategies!

About me:
I just recently started playing Warhammer 40k about half a year ago and have quickly progressing to the more competitive scene. I'm aiming to enter a tournament (Ard Boys) over this coming summer here at my LGS. As the title of my blog hints the two armies I play are Tyranid and Blood Angels. My starting army was Blood Angels and I just recently picked up Tyranids about 2 months ago.

Before I go more into what I play let me tell you I'm like a sponge. Not like Spongebob Squarepants but like a sponge for soaking up water. I absorb information and seek it like a sponge would if it had a brain! There are many blogs and forums I wade through to pick out various tactics to best defeat my opponent with. Most of what I look for are in a competitive sense, not to say I'm the most competitive person there is out there but that is what I strive for the most.

I'm fairly knowledgeable on the two most common play styles of Blood Angels; Mech and Descent of Angels. (DoA) Playing Mech BA from when I started up so I am more comfortable giving advice and helping build lists with that genre but I also haven't lost a match yet with my Descent of Angels lists.

If my Tyranid knowledge was ranked based on units in the Tyranid Codex I would probably be a Gargoyle. Fast in that I'm learning to quickly play Tyranids in a much more competitive way instead of like a complete noob but I am still too weak to consider myself of any major help for advanced tactics. However, I am definitely understanding the basics and the most known tactics so if your a new and upcoming Termagant I'd be glad to help you and you may find some of my advice of use. I've helped quite a few new players with Tyranids on some of the forums I frequent already and I'm hoping to do the same here.

Oh wow...love that preview button for posting blogs...this is getting pretty long. (I had a painting update on this post originally.) Let's move that to another post. Yay for editing!

Thanks for the visit and hope you find this blog helpful!

Syypher