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Over on the painted dragon, the members are challenging me. I have a small reputation for painting armies really fast, the members have challenged me to see if they can paint their armies faster. My army is going so well, I wanted to share it with other forums. Why let TPD hog all the fun hey!

Week 1 and week 2. - Assembly
Took 2 whole weeks to assemble the whole 1500pt army

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Week 3. - Painting the first 3 units
Started painting what I considered the hardest to paint units. 3 units completed in 6 days.

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2nd to 3rd edition metal tyranid warriors

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Current edition metal gargoyles.

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Week 4.- Painting the Raveners
No pics just yet, as this is the week I'm up to. So far i've painted all the red skin of the 6 Raveners. I hope to finish these in the next couple of days. Not sure what I should paint next... mayber the stealers or the fexes.

Another way to get your army painted fast: get challenged

Great looking sofar! I really like the mixture of the old and new stuff!
Good luck!

Nice looking paint on those models and bases well done also. Only 4 weeks so far and so much already done! Excellent work, I wish you the best in winning the challenge.

Ugh... I'm madly in love with those old Warriors. The amazing painting quality combined with a color scheme so close to the old Heavy Metal models is sending me into fits of ecstatic nostalgia. Looking forward to seeing those Rippers, too. Congrats on helping prove that old sculpts can look amazing with a bit of love.

Gareth. You know what? I could handle not being able to paint half as well as you if I was painting stuff in half the time. But the fact that you and Hydra are both so much better and so much faster frustrates me to no end!

Well done so far mate. They are really looking good.

They put a lot of time and effort into there models they have this thing called patience that I only have in small douses... Spray gun this summer I can't wait.

My goodness, these are some beautifully painted models.

The red and purple has always been a colour scheme I really loved to use, and my bugs almost went that way... almost but not quite.

Good luck with your challenge!

So, you're painting roiughly 2.5 models a day?

That's pretty impressive!

6 Raveners complete. WOOP! That's the 5 hardest to paint units done. Next up 2 screamer killer carnifexes. I would love to be able to have the fexes complete before next week.


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Oh wow, that is stunning work!

I would be hard pressed to produce ONE Ravener that nice, let along SIX in such short time. Bravo.

Group shot is looking cool, almost all the biggest critters are done, which I judge to be the most time consuming to paint. I think I might stick with the theme of the larger critters and paint the last 3 tyranid warriors next.

End of week 4 group shot

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Fex close ups

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Some serious hours have been spent on the project so far, pretty much doubled my usual number of painting hours due to circumstances at work, makes sense to capitalise on my work misfortune and keep busy.

If your asking us to challenge you that's unfair. Should be titled Gareth Challenge equals blood bath.

Love your stuff mate, always will.

I'm a little surprised that thigh carapace is bone, while back and talon carapace are dark.

Why? I think it lightens the model up. Too much black otherwise imo.

Slow progress this week, real life has decided to intervene in my progress and has only allowed for one unit to be completed for week 5 (so far). The unit is 3 plastic Tyranid Warriors. I think I'll paint the 4 ripper bases next.

3 Tyranid Warriors

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Week 4.5 Group Shot

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