40k Combat Patrol Delivery 5 - Eating in the Library

I'm back! Sooner than expected!

Continuing to clear the backlog, here's the 5th delivery from the Combat Patrol magazine.

It's another relatively simple job for painting - another 10 termagants with a ripper swarm base, and the biggest model so far, the Tyranid Psychophage. 

The termagants were such a copy and paste job from the previous set that I'm honestly not sure whether this is a photo of the right models. Always good to have more of those though, they're gratifyingly few points in 5th edition so swarming forwards with them en masse is the way to go. 

I was definitely happy with the earlier decision to use a very simple paint scheme as I went through these.

Tackling the big fella was very slightly more complicated - in the end I did a sort of poor man's slapchop on the smoke stuff emanating from its back, drybrushing up to sky grey and then using Speed Paint Orc Flesh over the top. 

The tentacles are Absolution Green, another Speed Paint colour. I wanted to stick in the theme of the rest of the army but more grey here seemed too much and Orc Flesh again would have been too bright.

It's also my first use of the Citadel Blood For The Blood God technical paint, for the severed marine's arm being dragged along the ground. I can see that being fun when we get to Chaos at some point in the future.

In 5th edition terms the only thing to do with this model is use it as a proxy, but it's the same size and basically the same shape as a Tervigon, so that's the obvious thing to do with it. 

But first, it got an outing in 10th!

Again, not a huge amount to report from these games other than the Psychophage is, clearly as intended, an absolute monster when facing an enemy psyker - devouring the Librarian and the terminators he was leading in pretty short order.

But if the librarian stayed out of it, the terminators were able, eventually, to punch the big bug to death.

Capturing objectives in time is still an issue for the marines though - possibly more due to the limits of the simple scenarios in the magazine than anything else.

That's all for now but painting, and hopefully gaming, continues! I'm still behind, but the gap between me and the remorseless march of time is closing a little.