The Average Gamer

I've made quite a lot of progress so far with the Tyranid army rescue. after about 6 hours of painting, I've got the red down, which makes up the fleshy parts of Hive Fleet behemoth, and painted the carapace armour black as the basecoat. The GW painting guide says to go to Sotek green next, and i'm looking forward to it. these miniatures have been a pleasure to paint so far. Adding the units to Battlescribe, a truly awesome tool for any player of 40k, the total points of the army so far came to about 800 points (including a hive tyrant which is not pictured). The tyrant guard are 1 mini short, and I only have the one Ravener, although it is a gorgeous metal mini. This is enough to play a few small games, but 40k tends to be about the larger games and a mere 800 points will not suffice. So I set about finding some deals that didn't look too bad on eBay. It didn't take too long for me to find something, and after a last minute snipe, I acquired what looked like a barg...

 Rescuing miniatures can be a really rewarding experience. Often its the case that you will get a handful of miniatures at a time, but occasionally a whole army falls into your possession that needs some severe work done. The background behind this is a little different from the usual 'bought the worst thing on eBay' story. A good friend of mine has recently decided to collect an Imperial Knight army, and he wanted them to be based. He's not the sort to take a long time to paint miniatures, being able to paint a whole army in the same time it can take most of us, even speed painters to paint a single unit, but he wanted the bases to look as good as possible. One of them was to be covered in a carpet of Tyranids, and the other was to have some deathguardesque stuff on it. Out came the box of nids that i didn't know existed, I was to use as many of them as I could and then keep the rest... I agreed, of course, and set about sorting what had been made available out. There ...