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Hi,
browsed through the Micro Art Studio forum and found these three WIP "Hive bases" fitting a Tyranid army and, hidden on the first pic, the first glimpse on Samurai rat heads fitting an Eshin themed Skaven army:





Discussed in this thread of the Micro Art Studio forum:
http://microartstudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=208

No release date given. Just early WIP.
BTW there will also be Steampunk rat heads fitting a Skryre Skaven army some time in the future.

Freaky! Meant to be the floor of a hive ship then?

They look very cool, but would be a paint to actually mount a miniature on.

agree with insainiak would be something fun but overall practicallity is low on those. I do however enjoy the rat heads.

Wow, I really like those bases! They'd make nice ones for Warriors and similar-sized 'nids judging from the looks of it. They look too small for the big boys. I think just a dab of green stuff under the feet would get them level with the base just fine.

I'm much more interested in that Corporal Detritus in the upper right corner.

Anung Un Rama wrote:I'm much more interested in that Corporal Detritus in the upper right corner.

Ditto. Is he wielding a Ballista, you think?

Those are pretty cool, nice and sharp! I wonder how the consumers will react to them though for tabletop armies and not display bases, since they will obviouly not blend in to most terrains...

Still, i don't wargame so I would be perfectly happy to use them on a nid or two! Great job

MajorTom11 wrote:I wonder how the consumers will react to them though for tabletop armies and not display bases, since they will obviouly not blend in to most terrains...

Actually, it fits quite well if you look at the background, as every planet with Tyranids on it is transformed into something "alien". So NOT having any alien terrain on the gaming table is unfitting. And as with every resin base, you should glue the miniatures on with 2 component epoxy glue instead of super glue, to fill the gaps.

BTW that's why I always bring FW and other Tyranid terrain (painted in my armies colours) with me for a game, including a digestion pool.

At the very least they would make decent objective markers, especially with something else mounted on them.

Empchild wrote:agree with insainiak would be something fun but overall practicallity is low on those. I do however enjoy the rat heads.

+1 as Tyranid objective markers.

Any news on more Iron Brotherhood guys?

Scottywan82 wrote:

Anung Un Rama wrote:I'm much more interested in that Corporal Detritus in the upper right corner.

Ditto. Is he wielding a Ballista, you think?

Yeah he is, there was a pic of the finihsed model on tabletop gaming news, I think it was there but I defo saw a pic of this guy somewhere.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Any news on more Iron Brotherhood guys?

I asked (again!) on their forums, and was told that they're hoping to have them ready for some event in April (Salut?), so they're hoping to have these LONG awaited figures ready to go end of March.

Fingers crossed and cash ready to spend!

Kroothawk wrote:

MajorTom11 wrote:I wonder how the consumers will react to them though for tabletop armies and not display bases, since they will obviouly not blend in to most terrains...

Actually, it fits quite well if you look at the background, as every planet with Tyranids on it is transformed into something "alien". So NOT having any alien terrain on the gaming table is unfitting. And as with every resin base, you should glue the miniatures on with 2 component epoxy glue instead of super glue, to fill the gaps.

BTW that's why I always bring FW and other Tyranid terrain (painted in my armies colours) with me for a game, including a digestion pool.

You are quite correct about the fluff for sure. And since you have terrain to bring with you then that totally works as well. I wasn't saying I thought it wouldn't work, in fact as I said I think they are quite awesome, just wondering how hot or cold the reception to these will be, as they are quite unique and out of the ordinary vs most other themed bases that tend to be rubble based or industrial,know what I mean?

I for one hope they do well!

very nice!

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