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Damn, those are awesome. What would they look like on a warrior torso?

Im waiting for the naysayers to kick in now!


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I do not know, though Navarro says they will look good, sadly I am not a fan of warriors, but I will do my best to put one together and get a shot of a warrior.

Besides, I need a warrior built to show off the swords and whips being finished this weekend.

Chapterhouse wrote: Im waiting for the naysayers to kick in now!

ok just because you asked.... ummmm THEY LOOK LIKE THEY ARE FROM ALIENS!! ARGHHHHHH segorney weaver(or however that is spelled) needs to be sculpted now as marbo.... actually hey I think I'm onto something their..... JKJK love the heads great work. Some people will hate it but hey that is always the case. In the end as long as you ahve a good product and your bank account continues to grow screw them

Chapterhouse wrote: Im waiting for the naysayers to kick in now!


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I do not know, though Navarro says they will look good, sadly I am not a fan of warriors, but I will do my best to put one together and get a shot of a warrior.

Besides, I need a warrior built to show off the swords and whips being finished this weekend.

Well, the color choices are certainly...interesting.

Actually, they do a solid job of showing off the incredible level of detail crammed into so small a piece. But I'm looking forward to those sword arms!

Empchild wrote:segorney weaver(or however that is spelled) needs to be sculpted now as marbo....

Convert away!

Sigourney, with hair or ala Alien 3, bald as an egg?

With hair, but tell me that wouldn't be a hot diorama for GD eh eh come one.. Her vs a warrior eh eh she would be a sly marbo_

Ok guys, heres my take on this... the xenomorph heads was builted with the following in mind, they both fit gaunt, stealer and warrior... size wise for the warrior its perfect as is IMO... for gaunts you will need a larger tail to make the xenomorph bigger more bulkier.

Good news is, that the lashes I will upload tomorrow, will give some nice tail options for you guys... I call these Cervical lashes

As in cervix? ewww

Could be worse, it could have been a urethral lash.

As in cervical vertebrae

Talk is cheap without pictures N.

Nice Alien Heads!

But i really really want to see the Spore Pod.

I really want to whine about the really.... curious... choice of colors for those Xenomorph heads, but they're really amazing. They're just the size I expected to be. I guess it wouldn't be too hard to put it on a Genestealer considering the size.

Also, I'm excited about the lash whip preview tomorrow.

Could you show a preview of the spore pod perchance?

Im waiting for the naysayers to kick in now!

The colours are not from this world.
I want whatever the painter was smoking

As in cervix? ewww

You have always been so sensitive dude

Damn, I want to start a warrior and stealer alien themed army like NOW!
Anyone want to trade warriors for alien heads then you know where to find me lol



Anyways, some pre heresy themed thingies and a bit of sweets for the space pups are coming soon and deathwing players have finally gotten their shoulderpad done. Will post some pics soon.

I realize that the paint schemes are a bit "different" but it was a bit difficult to come up with different color schemes for the Xenomorph heads and the Stealer heads. It is different when you are doing a whole unit in one scheme but to come up with say 5 different schemes for 5 similar heads was not easy ha ha. Plus I wanted to try to show people examples of different styles that the heads could be painted in. I must say that the casting quality is really really good. There are barely any mold lines what so ever and if there are they can easily be removed with a hobby knife. You will not realize how much detail there really is until you see them in person either. With the bright yellow head I tried to use contrasting colors to show off most of the detail that you might not see with an unpainted picture.

Thanks guys

antnol wrote:I realize that the paint schemes are a bit "different" but it was a bit difficult to come up with different color schemes for the Xenomorph heads and the Stealer heads. It is different when you are doing a whole unit in one scheme but to come up with say 5 different schemes for 5 similar heads was not easy ha ha. Plus I wanted to try to show people examples of different styles that the heads could be painted in. I must say that the casting quality is really really good. There are barely any mold lines what so ever and if there are they can easily be removed with a hobby knife. You will not realize how much detail there really is until you see them in person either. With the bright yellow head I tried to use contrasting colors to show off most of the detail that you might not see with an unpainted picture.

Thanks guys

Tough to paint to be sure. While Aliens look cool on the big screen...an appropriate paint scheme of black/silver just looks dull on the tabletop.

Hi folks heres the cervical lash arms.

I opted to make lots of vertebraes since there are so many uses for them in a converter hands that I could not miss this oportunity.

You may wonder why cervical main arm is so strait and not bended at all and let me try to explain why its sculpted this way.

THe obvious reason is that its easier for casting but theres also a extra purpose... THese are for you to bend the way you want those lashes so instead of having a pre bended whip that looks the same over and over again you have the option to have tons of diferent bended whips in your collection... Also if you want to complement the xenomorph heads on small critters you can cut half of the cervical lash and use it for tail for amore balanced creature.

And if your nuts like me you can use the triangular shape of the the vertebraes of the big arm as a starting point for some TMC devourers...

Hope you like the Big and medium sized cervical arms.

I realize that the paint schemes are a bit "different" but it was a bit difficult to come up with different color schemes for the Xenomorph heads and the Stealer heads. It is different when you are doing a whole unit in one scheme but to come up with say 5 different schemes for 5 similar heads was not easy ha ha. Plus I wanted to try to show people examples of different styles that the heads could be painted in. I must say that the casting quality is really really good. There are barely any mold lines what so ever and if there are they can easily be removed with a hobby knife. You will not realize how much detail there really is until you see them in person either. With the bright yellow head I tried to use contrasting colors to show off most of the detail that you might not see with an unpainted picture.

You are right. Sorry for complaining.

THese are for you to bend the way you want those lashes so instead of having a pre bended whip that looks the same over and over again you have the option to have tons of diferent bended whips in your collection... Also if you want to complement the xenomorph heads on small critters you can cut half of the cervical lash and use it for tail for amore balanced creature.

Best damned idea since the invention of liquid soap!

Wow navarro, those took me two glances because at fist it was a ewwww, but when I actually looked at it those are awsome great work!!

NAVARRO wrote:Hi folks heres the cervical lash arms.

I opted to make lots of vertebraes since there are so many uses for them in a converter hands that I could not miss this oportunity.

You may wonder why cervical main arm is so strait and not bended at all and let me try to explain why its sculpted this way.

THe obvious reason is that its easier for casting but theres also a extra purpose... THese are for you to bend the way you want those lashes so instead of having a pre bended whip that looks the same over and over again you have the option to have tons of diferent bended whips in your collection... Also if you want to complement the xenomorph heads on small critters you can cut half of the cervical lash and use it for tail for amore balanced creature.

And if your nuts like me you can use the triangular shape of the the vertebraes of the big arm as a starting point for some TMC devourers...

Hope you like the Big and medium sized cervical arms.

Ahh now it makes sense, it didnt before when we were just chatting about it.. guess we are stuck doing them straight

Plus they will look like Alien tails if you do it right!

Nick

your going to give us a bone sword that's reasonably like the original right? nothing crazy like this?

I swear, Chapterhouse is starting to absorb sculptors and painters left right and centre. At this rate, they're going to end up like some kind of collective fan run GW expansion company.

Shhhssshh, who told you...

Personally, I would rather have a bunch of real hobbyist and fans who are dedicated to makeing the game more visually interesting then just be a money grubbing corporation..

Oh wait..

kitsunez wrote:your going to give us a bone sword that's reasonably like the original right? nothing crazy like this?

I dont like that lash either. Its to crazy and doesnt fit the current Nid Design.

Oh and i dont criticise the technical aspect, just the design.

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Holy mother of god ... that is jaw dropping. Very impressed. How much? I don't play 'nids any more but I may buy some warriors just to paint those arms. I just have a shiva image running through my head (hoping he has used the right god and doesn't now look like a right dumbass)

What is your next project?

edit:
Just had another image of one of those just punching straight through power armor .... blue power armor ... with a U on the shoulder ... with gold edges on shoulder pads - ok .... straight through the chest and out the back of an ultramarine!

FYI Folks, Navarro has said the swords (which are Niddy) will have a hard push this weekend, so probably be done and ready for casting.

Also, we are going to do a set of Niddy whips this week as well. Navarro said it should take next to no time to do some tentacle whips similiar to the style known to the nids.

Just keeping yall informed.

So he'll be doing tentacled whips and these? Cool.

just looked at some concept art on Navarro's site... have to say I really hope he does the boneswords the way they're shown in that section, because they'd be just stunning.

Second Marrak's comment. Navarro, your work rocks.