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Thanks guys!

Yuletide Hive for your inspection.



And a comparison shot of the Tervigon near a Fex... the Tervi is simply massive...



Happy holidays all, have a safe and wonderful time this weekend!

Gits

That last picture you can see the leg portion of the dreaded and elusive Santafex.

Oh no, not the elusive Santafex! I heard he spawns bio-coal-spores if you've been bad or delivers toy rippers if you've been good.

I much preferred him in earlier editions though when he merely checked your army list twice.

RE Tervigon/fex parts fitting. I've had a number of badly cast Carnifex with torsos that simply don't fit together. I've had to do some heavy filing and even sawing to make the kit work as intended. It's quite possible either your fex - or the one CH used as a fitting guide for their parts - was a wonky one.

Good to see the swarm coming along!

Humor... Ar, Ar!!

Well, in the end the Tervigon is spectacular... it's just massive. Now I'm thinking long term about a second one. Right now we're up to our necks in trying to get the little termigants built so he can actually play with the Tervi.

Woof... that's a lot of little critters...

exactly how many?

Well, we have 27 at the moment... but with Alf's we'll be at 39. Considering we have to field a unit of 10 to begin with, then spawn for however long it lasts... I figure 40 is a safe number to start with. If we find out we rarely use that many, than I'll just consider them a leg-up on those needed for Tervi #2.

trust me Git you need them. a friend of mine playes with 3 tervi's and has 215 gaunts. with 3 tervies he generarly spawns 50 a piece per game (some times more some times less)

Now that I finally got my camera working properly with the light box, I thought I'd post the pictures of the Tervigon conversion for you.

First the Tervigon itself. Not a fancy paint job, but visually pleasing all the same. This uses the Chapterhouse conversion kit. My main modification to their kit is that I moved the head upwards on the body significantly so it is closer to where the spinal column would actually be on an animal like this, then worked a little crude GS-fu to re-work the front of the animal behind the head. Not really a very complicated process.



And a head-on size comparison with a fex. The Tervigon is just massive! Hard to believe one is made from the other.

Wow, that beastie turned out nice. I can't believe how huge it is. I think the paint job turned out fine. One more edge highlight on the carapace would probably do wonders. The base is a little too much, "Taste the Rainbow," for my liking, but looks much better in the group shot with the rest of the army than just under the one tervigon. Still, you continue to bust out awesome stuff. I assume the kiddos appreciated their Xmas gifts, they better have!

I think the big difference is the posture, put the carnifex more upright and it will look much bigger, as its a very hunched model. I agree, the carapace needs another highlight, looks a bit flat there, otherwise it looks great!

Actually I don't believe you can put the fex more upright... not out of the box anyway... and it's not just the posture, the Tervi is huge from every angle.

Case-in-point...

The carnifex kit can be made "taller" with very little done to the kit. Case in point: My Carnifex based on the "conversion" from Beasts of War



You have to do a little cutting to get the bottom half to fit, but it works... it just sucks because he rarely gets cover lol

I stand corrected. I never noticed the hunched over fex thing until I set it next to the Tervigon, but it does really ride low.

Wow he really does look huge! The bases have come out brilliantly, nice to see a close up of a painted one

Thanks M0rdian! I know the bases are a bit over-the-top... but keep in mind they're for an 8-year-old boy, so there's really no such thing as too over-the-top! I think they look pretty darn good on the tabletop in any case.

This blog is really starting to make me feel like building my Shadownids...

must resist...

(at least, until I make a 1500pt cron army, and a VC army for fantasy )

It's very hard for me to build a defined army of a specific size. I always want to add more or try new things. If I could just get the kids armies painted up so that what we actually already own is painted... that would be a big step forward.

I need to spend some more time working with Thing 2. He's interested but doesn't have the concentration or coordination yet to do neat work.

Same.
I'm always adding stuff to my older armies too,except my orks (they need paint first )

Did a little fooling around with green stuff tonight after my son's Nids stomped my poor Eldar. At a swap meet at our FLGS last year, someone gave my son this weird little contrivance of a fex head and a bunch of smaller arms on base. He's quite taken by it so I thought I'd paint it up for him as an objective marker... but the base didn't match the rest of the new bases, so I tried to GS something similar on my own. I also covered up the "ball" part of the Fex ball-and-socket joint for the head by making some make shift plates.

I'm not much of a sculptor... but I think these will do.

Nice! The objective looks like the spore chimney bit you got with the previous edition of 40K.

I think it will look better than you think painted up!

I believe it is. I just painted up another one that was mounted on a 25mm base (see below). I think the GS'd one will be disguised enough by the thing on top of it that it won't look too redundant.





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And here's the finished second objective with the Nid version of "The Thing" on it. I think the GS work turned out pretty well all things considered.

Wow I never knew the tervigon was so fat

That's kinda cool looking. Like the hive mind didn't really give a crap what it made that day, and "thing" was born

Those spore chimneys are cool, my brother did a little thing with it, he put a tau head and arm sticking out the top and it looks like he is being digested, hhonestly its amazing...and he's ten...did it all by himself. I'll get a apicture for you...anyway. It's a great way to spice it up as an objective (especially if fighting tau...give the mission narrative, ie. "save the poor sucker being digested"

Boys and I just got back from wyomingfox's place where we had a tremendously fun 6000 point battle. Wyfox and Thing 2 with 3000 pts of Nids (total) vs. Thing 1 and I with Necrons and Orks. We used some mission out of the battle missions book. We basically sat back and let Imotekh do his evil work. Worked pretty damn well too, which is good cause I don't think the rest of our armies did much save pick off a few gene stealers and gaunts. We only got through four turns before it was wayyyy past bed time and I had to get us home, so we didn't pick a winner... but the Nids were all over us... think it would have gone badly in turn 5. 3 bloody Tervigons on the table spawning gaunts EVERYWHERE.

Night fight lasted the entire game and Imotekh's lightning accounted for a lot of figures. Pretty dang impressive.

Hahaha! Those tervigons are mean. Necrons and orks, an interesting team

Pic of the 6000 pt battle at WyomingFoxes place. Nids vs combined forces of 'Crons and Bad Moons. Beautiful table, fun game. Didn't get to turn 5 before we had to skee-daddle so we'll call it a draw (Nids were "in the wire" when we quit though).

Is that some warmill terrain i see?