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Hello. You may remember me from my recently censored threads about dreads and glue that was blue. I'm back to start anew with my new brew of goo.
Hollow Tyranids coming at you.
65% composed of GW. (after grinding, please no hate- 100% pre cook weight.)

What the heck is this? I don't get it.

It's a hive tyrant that I took a dremel and a razor blade to in order to make a hollow model.

This model can be filled with whatever you want. Fake blood, dry ice, LEDs, cream cheese, you name it.

Mine is going to have green leds lighting up the dry ice smoke, and realistic blood that pumps out of its head and vents.

It's a lot harder to do in plastic than it is to do in hot glue, but I think I did all right.

When you finish it, post a video, that's going to be crazy.

I can't imagine why you'd need this, and I say this as a dude who puts LEDs in fething everything.

Whether you like this or not I gotta give you an A for effort and being creative! I'm intrigued I'll admit.

I liked your first thread on bleeding models and I like this one too Though personally I wouldn't waste the money on bleeding official GW models, they cost too damned much.

I have considered hollowing out space marines for glowing eyes or necrons for glowing gauss (though admittedly for the necrons I was more planning on just running external wires and trying to make them look like part of the model rather than hollowing since the limbs are so flimsy as it is ).

Hollow limbs ARE flimsy, sure. But mine are backed with latex to keep the dry ice from freezing the superglue and making the bond brittle. Just a really really thin layer, actually hand blown through the part (that's love).

If it drops, and all the superglue bonds break at once, parts would go flying everywhere. Not so with a latex backing, which holds everything together. I think I could actually blow it up like a balloon if I hadn't also used superglue.

I don't understand peoples' problem with this. The model looks exactly the same on the outside, does additional cool things, and hurts them zero.

A+ for effort

Count me in for wanting to see a video of this in action!

This is... interesting. I would like to see the finished product when you are done.

The intent isn't to have a bright column of light coming out of the vents. The CO2 mist from the dry ice /blood effects are the main attraction.

But even a small amount of light reflecting out of the vents will light up the mist as it comes pouring out. I'll be sure to make a video when I'm done, but I've been taking a lot of WIP shots.

I'm not sure If I was clear before, but The intent is to bore through the midsection and tail with a drill. This hole will connect through the hole in a chunk of basing material, all the way down through the base.

This will allow me to thread that red WD-40 hose through everything, connecting the base to the chest. This means I can take a much larger volume of liquid below, and have it just bleed eternally OR connect it to a large tub of dry ice, so it can smoke for much longer.

Hopefully this pic will help give an idea of how it is all wired up.
The tubing goes up from the base, through the rock, into the crotch of the tyrant, up through the waist and into the main body.
The main body is hollowed out and houses 3 small batteries, 2 green LEDs, and enough space for 2 grams of crushed dry ice.

If I decide to put more dry ice under the base, the tube will supply this up into the body.
If I decide to make it bleed, the blood liquid goes up this same yube, fills the body, and then comes out the vents.
If I put blood through the pump into a body filled with dry ice, bubbly blood. Neat.



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Hmm. I'll fix that later tonight