There’s been a lot of buzz around the new Vespid Stingwings and Tempestus Aquilons going up for pre-order in Kill Team: Hivestorm this weekend. As usual, we sent out a few boxes to painters of distinction from around the world. Here’s what we got back.
The Vespid proved immensely popular, with a wide range of colour schemes looking phenomenal on their chitinous carapace. Adán García Fernández, Spencer Stone, and Alison Kersley all opted for bright yellows with different contrasting colours on their T’au technology, with Alison even painting some of the new terrain alongside her Vespid.
Chrissie Orton made the bright orange Kill Team colours pop against brown and dusty bases, while Jon Gómez went for a wonderfully blended blue and purple Vespid that looks like midnight in motion. Meanwhile, Travis from Just Another Kill Team Podcast contrasted his grey carapace with a bright red weapon and shoulder pad, and Stephanie Flores made hers positively glow with bright ice blue and red wings.
Vic Vrankulj from Mountainside Tabletop painted the whole lot of them, opting for a more sedate and stealthy colour scheme with a lovely radioactive glow emanating from their neutron crystals.
Vincent Knotley got up to his usual tricks with his entire paint cabinet across five distinctly different Stingwings sporting a wide variety of eye-catching colours.
Dakotah and Giacomo of Squad Games bridged the gap with a Vespid Stingwing and Tempestus Aquilon, while Darcy Bono brought the squad’s Tempestor to life with a crackling power sword and Mike Sherwood of Turning Point Tactics shipped off a Grenadier in stealthy black armour.
Chris Pike was the first to tackle the crowd-pleasing (and T’au-hating) servo-sentry in a colour scheme the Adeptus Mechanicus would no doubt approve of, while Chloe Ratcliffe finished a full five of the Aquilons in wonderfully contrasting blue and red uniforms.
Lastly, Paulie Wallis eschewed the scuffling operatives and devoted his time to one of the new terrain pieces in Kill Team: Hivestorm, giving it a beautifully aged treatment with grime, moss, and plenty of verdigris.
If these get your creative instincts firing, you won’t have long to wait – Kill Team: Hivestorm goes up for pre-order this Saturday. Mark your calendars!
