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I'm tackling an entirely different kind of creature... the Great Devourer of the Void! This is the first thing I have ever scratchbuilt, so I am fairly proud of it. I painted it to match my ground-pounding tyranid force, so that they will match during campaigns.

So without further ado, the fruit of my labor: My first BFG Hiveship

That thing is cool, took me a while to figure out the parts in it as well.

Fantastic work. Work like this pushes the boundaries of the hobby.

Looks great! I'm not so sure about the tips of its tentacles, but apart from that, awesome work.

This is great, I can't wait to see more.
I've seen something similar before, probably on the tyranid hive, where he used regular infantry guns (devourers if I remember) with some other tiny bits to make the fighters, and they looked pretty good.

Woah. Threatening, yet very Battlefield Gothic. Very very cool.

Yes, the tentacles were inspired by Halo's 'The Flood'.

Thanks for the comments, I'll be adding my cruisers and escorts as I get them painted.

What did you make it out of? That is one of the coolest scratch built models i have seen.

Ahhh, I see now, why you wanted those bits in the Swap shop!

Keep up the good work!

I like it alot better than the GW ones, this thing looks like it might actually rip a cruiser apart!

cormz wrote:What did you make it out of? That is one of the coolest scratch built models i have seen.

Let's see... it was made with 3 carnifex carapaces, 2 deathspitters, 1 venom cannon, 2 flesh hooks (the long kind), 12AWG wire, 2 part epoxy putty (the cheap hardware store kind that dries in 5 min and costs only 3 bucks per tube), two spinefists and the base. A few extra gubbins here and there just spiced it up a bit, like the adrenal sac.

@sasori: yes.... my hive fleet must grow!

@megadave: I love that part of the BFG rules... where if both "massive claws" make successful attacks, it latches on like a pitbull and disgorges boarders into the stricken target... that is just freaking cool imagery!

If people at my store ever start of BFG I'm totally doing this. Here's some more pictures I've collected for inspiration:

That is awesome! Thanks for those pics, they give me good ideas!

those pics make me wanna start a bfg tyranid fleet.

including a HUUUUUUGE mothership made out of a trygon.

personal not:golden demon project XD

I've started work on a shoal of Kraken. They're supposed to be escorts, so I kept them small and simple:

What sort of Scale are you using for the ships? (Hive ship, Cruiser, Kraken, Drones)

devour! nice convertions!

Crazy_Carnifex wrote:What sort of Scale are you using for the ships? (Hive ship, Cruiser, Kraken, Drones)

Scale? Pffft! That is entirely too technical for me. I just throw together things that look cool.

Basically: small flight stands are for escorts and cruisers of 2 spores and below. Large flight stands are for hive ships and for cruisers with 3 spores or more. That is how most fleets are designed, anyway.

I make the Hive ships from 3 carnifex carapaces. Cruisers are made with one. Krakens are built from a single deathspitter, a warrior head, flesh hooks, and spinefists. Vanguard drones are made from a scythe-tail piece, a hormagaunts' scything talon, and a devourer. Alternatively, I use all scything talons with the devourer, or one of those extended carapace pieces from the carnifex kit, but I always try to make the drones with 3 "wings" or "fins", two horizontal and one vertical.

As promised: A size comparison picture:

Here is the Kraken in relation to a Styx cruiser (keep in mind that chaos cruisers are a bit smaller than IN-

(BTW, like my alliteration?)

Hmm very nice, they all look a bit like sharks