The Swarm – Pics of the Tyranids

Apologies for the poor quality of the photos, I’ve spent the first day of my annual leave organising and collating my tyranids and remembered to take photos but with no tripod and crap lighting these are the best I can do for now.

The first pic is a general wide shot of the Tyranids as a whole – at least the ones that are assembled, not soaking in Simple Green or still on sprues or in blisters – the cardboard box holds pretty much all the unbuilt plastic Genestealers and Termagants I have from buying Battle for Macragge and trades for old school Genestealers.

This is the first bulk lot of tyranids I bought through WargamerAU – I thought I received very good value for what I paid, and although I initially was going to strip the Genestealers to repaint them in the original classic Space Hulk theme, I’ve decided to stick with this theme as the basis for my entire Tyranid force – the Cultist army will be the one that gets done in the Classic scheme. There are a bunch of gargoyles not shown and a original Zoanthrope model that needs to be stripped and repainted along with a couple of rebuilds of broken models but other than those, this is pretty much everything.

These are some of the second lot I picked up along with some unbuilt and unpainted models to flesh out a few gaps. A few genestealers rounded out this lot.

The third major lot I picked up purely to add to my original army – these are definitely headed for the simple green as the paintjob and basing aren’t my personal cup of tea – but they were cheap as chips.

The mighty Barks gave me this huge bunch of original Genestealer Cultists and Advanced Space Crusade models – I hadn’t planned on doing a Genestealer cultist army but now I have to. I’ve still to see the metal figures he’s finding for me, I do note that one of the odds and sods he included is a charging Patriarch model…I owe the boy some decent scotch for this .

And here we have Black Bart and his Hybrid Badnesses – when I saw these figures and the paintjobs on some of the hybrids, I was utterly lost to the dark side of Genestealer collecting.