40k Tyranids Genestealers

Here are the finished genestealers. This puts me up to 70% of the Tyranid army painted.

And some Ymgarl genestealers. I have four that still need feeder tendril heads. I put regular heads on them for now. I'm trying to scrounge a few from local wargamers, but have yet to have any success.

Continuing Tyranids WIP

I've been hard at work this week to make more progress on these nids. I gave all the minis a magenta wash of my own concoction on their skin, and I also added fish gravel stones and texture paint to all the bases. I decided to split them up into type before drybrushing the base color for the skin back on.

2017 SotA Update 2: Tyranids WIP

After finishing up some recent commissions, I'm finally able to get back to working on Tyranids. In this tray are 31 Genestealers, 12 Spore Mines, 18 Hormagaunts, and 8 Termagants assembled, primed and base coated with their skin color. I think I'll go through the tray and do my wash and drybrush to the skin on all of them before splitting them up by model type to finish. The skin is always the hardest part for me to slog through. Fully painting all the models in this tray would be a big chunk towards my goal for my State of the Armies challenge.

40k Harlequin Skyweavers

I did a commission for a squad of Skyweavers to match the Harlequins I painted before.

 

 

Yeah, I know that back end is misaligned.

Royal Gartelac Dishcloth

This is a Garterlac Dishcloth knit in Peaches & Cream in Royal using Size 2 US (2.75mm) needles.

Cu Chulainn Alter Berzerker Stuffie

This was a commission piece. He is the chibi version of a character from the Fate/Grand Order video game. It is made of felt and is completely hand sewn.

Front

Back

One more for scale

DPN Holders

I've been working on making several sets of leg warmers to stock my etsy store, and that means I've been totting my knitting around a bit. I made these double pointed needle holders so that the needles would not poke through my purse. I made a rectangle with fabric on one side and felt on the other sandwiching in a piece of elastic on one end. Then I folded the rectangles over and sewed the sides together. These work so well I'm thinking about making a smaller set for wip socks.

Tent Miniatures

I'm playing in a homebrew game campaign where the party's characters spend a lot of time camping. I've acquired a new (to me) epoxy putty and figured this would be a good use for testing it out. They have a core of Kneadatite, and covered with either Milliput and Procreate.

I gave them a coat of Minitaire Flat Coat, but you can see in the pictures how shiny they still are. We concluded that they were oiled cloth to keep out water.

Action shot 

(please excuse the unpainted mini - I've been putting most of my free time into commissions)

 

Close up shot.