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First, the tervigon




Head



Arms



The Hierodule. This guy is massive! About 21" Long and 11" High




All comments welcome!

Although the paint job is very cool, I don't think the blue spikes on the Tervigon's back carapace are very Tyranid-like. Remember, it's bone, not hand painted armor.

@DarkAngelsRK: Ever seen bugs with patterned carapaces? They're everywhere.


I love the the tervigon man, it's great. I think the colours you've chosen for the armour stripes work great (although they remind me of the late 80's and early 90's for some reason...), but I hope that heirodule is WIP. It looks really really promising, but it's very rough, and looks more like a toystore rubber monster than a warhammer model at this point. keep at it though, because the basic form you have goibng for it's incredible.

Thanks for the Comments.
I have to Agree with Ktulhut on the armor. Plenty of bugs have neatly patterned chitin. Even other animals have neat skin like poison dart frogs. Also, the carapace still needs to receive a blue wash to blend everything. On the hierodule, he is really just to make people go " Wow, that is big!" and he was also my first major sculpt. I really don't care much about anymore.

im liking the tervigon, cant wait to see it together

Yeah, I may have come off a bit harsh on it. The fact is though, if you spent only an hour or two doing a little more sculpting with GS, you could have one badass mofo.

Just one thing about the Hierodule- it's honestly way too big for one. 11" tall is more like a Hierophant. Just for reference, I have a Scythed Hierodule here, and the tip of its tail (highest part of the model) is around 6" from the ground, and it's around 9-10" long. Also, the Barbed Hierodule is the one with 2 Bio-cannons- yours appears to be armed with all Scything Talons, which would make it a Scythed Hierodule (unless I'm seeing the pictures wrong).

The Tervigon looks really nice though, I'm thinking it'll look extremely similar to the Codex art once it's done.

Nice job!

Thanks for the comments. Yes indeed, I planned on it looking like the codex one. For the Hierodule, it is a big big for GS use but I think when I get my apoxie sculpt, it will be put high on the list. I think I will remove the back carapace and redo it as I have a better notion of how. Also, I intended it to be big so it could pass in fact as both. Also, for anyone curious, it is 11 blocks baking clay. Mostly becuase on the body, I didn't use foil to fluff it out. I have more pictures of my tervigon on another sight (www.warpshadow.com) but it is down for the moment. As soon as it is back up, I will link my album.

Reminds me of this ^^ :

DarkAngelsRK wrote:Although the paint job is very cool, I don't think the blue spikes on the Tervigon's back carapace are very Tyranid-like. Remember, it's bone, not hand painted armor.

You haven't seen many painted Tyranids have you?

Anywho....I like it, although the red is a bit messy, I would do some touchups here and there.

Yes, touch-ups will commence after I finish all the carapace and the legs.

Darth Bob wrote:

DarkAngelsRK wrote:Although the paint job is very cool, I don't think the blue spikes on the Tervigon's back carapace are very Tyranid-like. Remember, it's bone, not hand painted armor.

You haven't seen many painted Tyranids have you?

What does that have to do with anything? I happen to agree with him.

While the modelling is interesting, I have to say that the carapace lines need a lot of work. Get a thinner brush and more colours that blend it in from dark to light. As of right now it looks like some poorly placed warpaint. The scything talon carapace on the right in the one picture is leagues above the others, but even that one needs atleast 2 more colours to make a smooth transition.


Otherwise though, nice idea.

That is why I am implicating a wash to blend the highlights. But right now, they are staying as it is, so quit posting about it.

Mewiththeface wrote:That is why I am implicating a wash to blend the highlights. But right now, they are staying as it is, so quit posting about it.

If you arnt open to opinions, issues and criticisms, then dont make a post on a public forum. A wash isnt going to make that much better, my suggestions will. Take it or leave it.

Looks great to me

Thanks. Here is a picture of the legs-

Yeah, not the best but they get the job done exactly. They will be painting up good though.

Everything is finished except the base needs to be painted and it needs to be glued to it.




The base!


The paper mache (phage) will be painted up like the creep in starcraft except orange.

Insects/Reptiles can have almost any color pattern , they don't really even have to make sense for camo purposes or be symmetrical. They can be there simply to warn of (or fake) poisonous potential or to look scary/like a larger animal(ie the "eyes" on the wings of some butterflies). As long as you paint it well (and so far I think it looks fine) you can do whatever the hell you like.

Night Lords wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:

DarkAngelsRK wrote:Although the paint job is very cool, I don't think the blue spikes on the Tervigon's back carapace are very Tyranid-like. Remember, it's bone, not hand painted armor.

You haven't seen many painted Tyranids have you?

What does that have to do with anything? I happen to agree with him.

While the modelling is interesting, I have to say that the carapace lines need a lot of work. Get a thinner brush and more colours that blend it in from dark to light. As of right now it looks like some poorly placed warpaint. The scything talon carapace on the right in the one picture is leagues above the others, but even that one needs atleast 2 more colours to make a smooth transition.


Otherwise though, nice idea.

First of all, feel free to hop off your high horse. Second, it has everything to do with it because you'll find many Tyranids are painted in such a manner. While I agree the painting could be blended more, and more colors could be added to make the light-dark transition a little smoother, the vertical-line technique is one that is used by many Tyranid players. My point was that he was saying that the whole "line" or "spike" technique isn't Tyranid-like, which is fallacy since it is a popular technique used by many Tyranid players (a variation of which is used by GW).

Night Lords wrote:

Mewiththeface wrote:That is why I am implicating a wash to blend the highlights. But right now, they are staying as it is, so quit posting about it.

If you arnt open to opinions, issues and criticisms, then dont make a post on a public forum. A wash isnt going to make that much better, my suggestions will. Take it or leave it.

He was completely open to the criticism and adressed it as such. However, to insist with a suggestion that the OP has already adressed and dismissed is nothing but aimless spam. Giving someone an ultimatum about their model is not the best route to take, as it gets us nowhere. All it does is create un-needed tension in a thread.

In short, he saw your suggestion, addressed it, and declined it. There's no need to pester him about it.

Thank you bob. Now back to the sho-model!

Darth Bob wrote:
First of all, feel free to hop off your high horse. Second, it has everything to do with it because you'll find many Tyranids are painted in such a manner. While I agree the painting could be blended more, and more colors could be added to make the light-dark transition a little smoother, the vertical-line technique is one that is used by many Tyranid players. My point was that he was saying that the whole "line" or "spike" technique isn't Tyranid-like, which is fallacy since it is a popular technique used by many Tyranid players (a variation of which is used by GW).

He was completely open to the criticism and adressed it as such. However, to insist with a suggestion that the OP has already adressed and dismissed is nothing but aimless spam. Giving someone an ultimatum about their model is not the best route to take, as it gets us nowhere. All it does is create un-needed tension in a thread.

In short, he saw your suggestion, addressed it, and declined it. There's no need to pester him about it.

Get off my high horse? Are you kidding me? I posted an opinion and suggestions to help him. He sure as hell doesnt have authority over me as to how I post. I didnt realize that this was a forum to praise everyone and pat each other on the back. If I were to make a topic here I would want honest opinions to make my work look the best it can, not empty praise to fill my ego. I cant stress this enough, if you dont like criticism, dont post on a public forum. Nothing I said was even close to being spam or breaking the rules. What I think you should do is quit being so dramatic, grow some thicker skin and realize that not everyone with negative opinions is trying to look down on others.

With that said, he dismissed it and posted new pictures. Now I can still say I think the carapace looks very poor and is ruining what would otherwise be a great model. More colours and thinner strips is needed, otherwise it still looks like paint instead of natural armour, and it is distracting.

I already dismissed this Night Lords. Quit filling my thread with useless posts I already addressed. Now, if you have something else, I haven't addressed then please either edit or repost. If not then, don't post to make your count go up higher.

You need to understand that this isnt your forum, you are not a mod - you do not make the rules about who is allowed to post what in here. If you have a problem I encourage you to send a report into the mods, who, after reading my indepth opinion and suggestions, Im sure wont find a problem with anything I have contributed here (aside from possibly this offtopic post). You made a topic in the painting section, I gave you my opinion, and I dont really care if youve "dismissed" it, I'm free to post opinions and suggestions. It's as simple as that.

Anyways, good luck with the rest of the topic and I strongly encourage you to consider any criticisms that may head your way, as it will likely improve your painting and models.

Night Lords wrote:

Get off my high horse? Are you kidding me? I posted an opinion and suggestions to help him. He sure as hell doesnt have authority over me as to how I post. I didnt realize that this was a forum to praise everyone and pat each other on the back. If I were to make a topic here I would want honest opinions to make my work look the best it can, not empty praise to fill my ego. I cant stress this enough, if you dont like criticism, dont post on a public forum. Nothing I said was even close to being spam or breaking the rules. What I think you should do is quit being so dramatic, grow some thicker skin and realize that not everyone with negative opinions is trying to look down on others.

With that said, he dismissed it and posted new pictures. Now I can still say I think the carapace looks very poor and is ruining what would otherwise be a great model. More colours and thinner strips is needed, otherwise it still looks like paint instead of natural armour, and it is distracting.

By getting off your high horse, I was reffering to how your first comment displayed an obvious superiority complex that can be proved by calling my post irrelevant. If that was not the emotional basing of your post, then I apologize (the internet does a sorry job of translating emotion through text ). I did not mean that you were being snotty or "on a high horse" by criticizing his miniature. I agree that criticism is sometimes (more often than not) better than praise. In case you didn't notice, in my first comment I stated how the red on the model looked messy. You did give him suggestions, and nowhere in my posts did I say you didn't have the right to do so. However, he responded to your suggestion and kindly declined your reccomendation. Now, by insisting with something that has already been adressed by the OP, you are not contributing anything new (praise or criticism) to the thread. In other words, while it may be inadvertant, you are shoving the same thing down his throat again and again and again (no homo) and/or spamming his thread.

If you would like to continue to flame me and put words in my mouth, go ahead. It will only draw in the mods and continue to fuel a pointless argument that should not have been instigated in the first place. I am a wargamer and you are a wargamer; there's no reason for such hostility between people over the looks of a miniature. If you want to continue to argue, that is your choice, but I'm going to take the peaceful road and settle this by stating it was a misunderstanding, and I believe we can drop it and simply try to enjoy how this miniature evolves (whether we like it or not). Does this sound reasonable to you?

On a more on-topic note, I like it, but there are a few things I would work on:
- I think the basing could do with a bit more ballast, as, to me, the blank spaces on the base are very eye-catching.
- I would take a look at some Tyranid artwork, or even a carnifex, and try to model the legs a bit more. Right now, they lack sufficient detail when compared to the rest of the model.

Has anyone ever noticed that the phrase "draw the mods" make it sound like Dakkadakka is a zombie movie, and that by spilling blood in a flame war, we are summoning our demonic (or should I say daemonic) overlords, to feast on our posts like maggots on wheat?

On topic: Love the tergivon!

thanks. On the legs, I doubt I will be able to add much detail to them now as they are baking clay pieces and can;t go back into the oven and I have no air dry clear around or won;t be able to get any before friday. But yes, I did try to model the legs with as much detail as possible but I struggled. I added spikes to them which I think helped and I might add gaunt scytals around the ankles. On the base, most everywhere is covered with ballast. The one piece of building you can mostly see is gonna be completely covered by the tervigon. Thanks! When the base dries, I'll start painting!


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Whee double post!

Now that I look at it, I actually really like how this turned out! Great job!