Collins Does Combat Patrol

I wanted to paint purple because ive not done it before and because way back when there was an episode of White dwarf that had a batrep where the nids fought the vallhallen ice warriors and it hits the nostalgia spot well.

I didn’t go back to full childhood and do purple and black (as seen below) but I followed leviathan colour scheme following Warhammer tv YouTube channel tutorial.

overall I am happy with the result but there can be so much more that could be done for detailing on these models with more colours. the Warhammer video gets you to what I would consider a basic table top standard (which is fine!)

interesting sidenote, the volcanic ice basing changes colour depending on the light it is viewed under. Best viewed under daylight or blue lights to make it very obvious it is a chunk of ice
(Left = orange light, Right = white light)

picked the first copy up in a WHSmith for £3 and thought it was an interesting concept… I’ve not done anything like this before and am now able to do more painting now I’ve freed up my work/home life balance to be more home than before.

the first two magazines appear to have stuff from the leviathan boxed set (did they make too many that didn’t sell?!?)

been a long time since I painted a GW mini (about 15 years) so it’ll be an interesting exercise to see what’s happened and the advances in details or build etc. as some of the other minis I’ve painted have been boardgames pieces and to be honest they can be pretty ropey at best…

so after mulling it over for a few days I decided that sure, why not I would subscribe. potentially challenging myself to paint one magazine of models a week (I bet you I don’t succeed!). I might however decided to hoard them and paint them a faction at a time. or I won’t, who knows! join me on this journey! I’ll start with the ‘nids because I’ve never painted them before and space marines are boring