First off, if you want to bypass all the random ADD crap jump ahead to page 6 or so!!

I was looking online for ideas for my nids when I came across this thread on a diff forum ( http://thetyranidhive.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=converting&action=print&thread=22160 ) and it made me take a second look at my bitz box. I decided that I need to make use of some of the things I have leftover. Like any Tyranids player I have a bunch of extra bio weapons, Carnifex bits, and other such fun and I think I need to make somethings from them. Seeing the "crab" pic in the thread above made me think that I could use an idea like that to make my own tyrant guards. I don't know about anyone else but I'm a bit tight on money right now and scratch building some units will use up some of my bits and fill in the ranks of my tyrant guards as well as some other units that pop into my head as I go. Ok enough blabbing and on to the first wip...

Tyrant Guard v.01






As you can see there are a TON of gaps to fill and the entire center of the little fella is hollow. He will have at least one set of scy talons when I'm done and I still don't know what head to use.... I would love some CC and any ideas on how to finish this guy off and maybe where to go afterwards.

-Tony

hmmm a head maybe?

I would GS the openings on the carapace shut and smooth it over, i would also use maybe the biovore arm for some large gorillaesque arms.

Any ideas what to use for a head? (seems to be a popular question HAHA) I dont have any biovores sadly...

what do you have?

Personally I would love to see it with a genestealer head or a gaunt head!

I have most models aside from bio/pyrovores

then use a stealer head.

I popped the stupid looking tail pc off and I'm going to try to GS some armor plates on a genestealer head and see how it comes out.



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Also I am going to need some help with a name for my Hive Fleet at some point too. If anyone has any ideas feel free to shout them out!

color scheme? and im SO BAD at GS :(

I am absolute junk with GS myself but I am also determined to get better! I have to for the sake of some upcoming projects.

As for a color scheme... I was thinking bone for the bodies and black for the carapace. Only it would have dark blue to lighter blue highlights so that the armor plates end up looking more blueish than just black. Maybe even some grey motteling (sp?)

I am completely lost as to what to name the fleet here... I'm debating one of these lovely synonyms of the word slow in refrence to the pace I am making them at apathetic, crawling, creeping, dawdling, delaying, deliberate, dilatory, disinclined, dreamy, drowsy, easy, gradual, heavy, idle, imperceptible, inactive, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, listless, loitering, measured, moderate, negligent, passive, phlegmatic, plodding, ponderous, postponing, procrastinating, quiet, reluctant, remiss, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow-moving, sluggish, snaillike, stagnant, supine, tardy, torpid, tortoiselike

Do it with Latin!

Hive fleet tardus / lentus.

Also gravitas (sorta) but my dead language skills are kinda dead so I can't recall anything else

Do it with Latin!

Hive fleet tardus / lentus.

Also gravitas (sorta) but my dead language skills are kinda dead so I can't recall anything else

if you army going to be crab based?

Thanks Atre, I may actually use Lentus!

@IronfrontAlex- They will not be crab based only a few here and there.

ok; general theme for the army tho?

Honestly, I hadn't thought of a real theme. I wasn't sure what kind of theme there is with interstellar bugs that kill and eat EVERYTHING in their path.

oooo hmm well figure out a scheme or story and i'll help with a name!

Ok, at the moment I am working with some GS and I had no idea it was so sticky... Not really sure what I was expecting but either way its sticky. Things look ok so far but I clearly need some better sculpting tools and ALOT more experience! Pics soon!


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GS work is done and I will post pics tomorrow when I am more awake.

Yay!

Like I mentioned before the GS work is my first EVER so please dont judge me too harshly Considering the fact that my only sculpting tool was a broken plastic spoon I'm not going to be too upset. First off are the pics of the back and front of the crab guard where I put the GS to fill the giant holes. I think I'm going to work on some more detailed GS pcs to put onto these spots, like maybe more "craters" like the carapace has to bring a uniform look...



Here are a couple shots of the head. I ended up using a genestealer head and making some additional armor on it and I gave it a slight crest...





Again, my first attempt at GS and I have no tools to work with aside from my prison shank spoon. Also I think a good layer of paint will help too.




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Oh and IronfrontAlex- I was thinking bone for the bodies and black for the carapace. Only it would have dark blue to lighter blue highlights so that the armor plates end up looking more blueish than just black. Maybe even some grey motteling (sp?)

I am thinking of trying to make a semi nautical theme.

nice! gonna dip?

There are GS tutorials about if you're looking for help.

I'm no expert but I do know that your scuplting tools have to be wet to avoid that sticking issue.

Good start so far!

I learned that the hard way about the water! I loved the tutorial articles though. I poured over those this morning before work. I def plan on practicing more on these and I'll post stuff for you guys (all 2 of you) to comment on. Thanks for the support and CC is always welcome.

I'm not a huge fan of dipping, mostly due to the lack of space in the apartment to do it cleanly. I think I'll just do some heavy washes, but who knows.


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My add kicked in today and after reading the thread by Hulksmash located here... http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/294553.page

I loved his Screamers so much that I made a few mini versions of my own from a few leftover bits that I got forever ago. I think I may use them as servitors for an inquisitor idea that I had. In addition to the two here I am working on a third with a custom flamer.

Heres a quick look at these little terrors.




Please excuse the toothpicks as I don't have any flying bases

Again, let me know what you think!

How did you change the name of your blog?

Really? I put up new stuff and thats all I get?

HAHA If you go to the first page of yours and click the edit button on the initial post you can change it.

Seriously, no response?

Nice idea for servitors, i mader those chaos servitors/oblits/flamers from old CSM bits and tau drones too.

any time you want to ship me some guitar strings I would love it! Kidding. I think I am going to grab some tonight.

Go grab some!

Ok heres the deal. A buddy of mine from my FLGS just told me that my participation in the months store vs store game is mandatory and I need 1500 points painted and ready for the end of June aka this month! Currently at ZERO points! All fun projects are on hold! Well aside from a head I'm working on for a friend. Either way 1500 in 2 weeks. Not untra tough but not a quick project either, who do you think I am MegaDave?


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Oh and Ironfront, I'm pulling one off my guitar tonight!

HAHA damn thats big, maybe you should dip/brush them? it would paint up your mini's quick!

p.s if the head is lookin good i'll just trade you it!

The head is up on your plog, hope you like it. Not completely done yet!

Finished up a head for a friend and now its back to trying to get my 1500 points done! Pics of progress will go up as soon as progress is made HAHA

So wha scheme? and did you look up quickshading and brushing? it will probably sve you time.

p.s lets see it!

It's already up on yours man!


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I know I said I would buckle down and get some nids done, but I wanted to finish the stubby flamer assembly for my final tiny servitor only to realize that it was a bit too large for the teny tiny little tau shield generator. Well here is the assembly anyways. Maybe I'll find a use for it at some point. Of course now I HAVE to find a new weapon configuration for it I swear I am not a procrastinator... ok maybe a little.


And

Aw,only 2 people are posting on here? :(

Anyway,you're way better with GS than me. It's one of the only things I'm NOT half decent at (followed by clean paintjobs on tanks and feathering,among other things). I'm not too good at subtle highlighting either. But that's an acquired skill.

Anyway,I digress. Good job!

Is that an E string or A string? E strings are expensive....

It's an E string but I didn't buy so I'm ok with it.

Yeah only 2 or 3 post on here but whatever, I don't really care. The few that do are actually constructive and help me out so its worth it.

I watch. I've never use GS, so no point me posting.

Trust me though, this stuff is actually interesting.

That..sounded weird when I read it back

OMG its an Assblaster from Tremor 3

Did anybody actually get above reference? I didn't XO

Idid! From the movie Tremors 3. Funny reference, Maybe I should give it those elongated madibles too!


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Oh and its good to see you're still there Darkvoid.


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Well motivation just kicked in and I am off to start work on my first member of the Hive Fleet Nereus family...



Nothing like starting small HAHA!


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TRYGON IS DONE!!!!! No thanks to my lovely little boys who are constantly running in yelling "Daddy!" It's so worth it to take a break with the little guys though. Makes it that much more fun to get some time to model my nids. I'll post pics of the trygon as soon as I get a chance!


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Ok, here is the real update for the night. If you are a fan of nids like me or just a fan of conversions you need to see this thread... http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/282111.page

I told the OP of that thread that I liked his work a ton and I wanted to make a Doom very similar to his and he was all for it so that is just what I did with a few little changes.

DOOM!!


The tail extends even further but it is actually what is holding it up in the box There are 6 little frail arms going on once the GS hardens.

Also as mentioned before I finished my first Trygon

and Mr Happy's profile


Please feel free to offer up some CC!

nice! i would have magnetized the trygon tho IMHO... you know just in case i want a malwwack (sp?)

Also, you are way better at GS than i... what am i doing wrong?! lol

Trust me I am still TERRIBLE at GS but the tuts on here about it are invaluable! I have a few in my favs for when I want to try something. I was going to magnetize it but I figured I have another one and It wil def be magnetized to be a prime and a mawlok and maybe even a harpy...

awesomesausage with some awesomesauce on the side! Love your doom! You need to work on the brain though... cause ATM it really doesn't look particularly "DOOM" like. One way or another, I still love it! Maybe in a few years I might GS something myself...

Oh yeah, don't by gamesworkshops GS!!!! MWG or greenstuffit.com are a must for green-stuffers, if the adverts and MWG's reputation are anything to go by (which they are).

I'm not so great at the actual sculpting part. I will def be working on a thin layer of GS "brains" to layer over the sides of the head when I get better with GS.

If you want a large amount of GS without breaking the bank try GF9 stuff (galeforce 9)
Just the same from what i can tell from using it.
Not only that, but ive been stocking up on it for a while, got just over 1.5kg of it to use when i need to lol.

Thanks for the credit on the thread aswell
Looking good now, waiting to see the harpy once you get those wings.

HAHA! Its going to be awhile on those wings.

At £6 though you cant argue lol.
Got 2 more sets on order now with 2 more trygons.
That should set me up with 3 harpies.
Also working on an all plastic thropes (much like my doom)
That way i can start running them 3x3, rather than having them break or chip.
I can also work on 30 or so for apoc lol.

HOLY COW! I cant wait to see some of those all done up. I was thinking of doing some plastic Zoeys too. But I dont think I have enough Trygon pcs HAHA.

That trygon looks mean can't wait to see these guys done.

I managed to get a few ravernors done last night too but at 2 in the morning I was in no mood to upload those... Now its more or less time to build my basic units for my army. I think I'm still going to make a few more Zoeys from the leftover Trygon/Mawlok kit not to mention I need to make my other Trygon. I think this time I'm going to make it a Trygon prime. Also I need to make some bone sabres for my tyranid prime and his unit of warriors.


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Minor update... No pics yet but I did manage to throw together a pair of carnifexs, carnifexen... 2 of the darn things kitted out for some close combat. I'm not sure if I'm saving my last one for a tyranofex of tervigon. Any insight?

I'm FAR too lazy to paint my Trygon Prime. I just got it a couple days ago, already sprayed black, and I have no desire to start such a project without a spraygun. I play Hive Fleet kraken, so a solid basecoat of tallarn flesh is mandatory....

Sigh. I like hive fleet kraken, but bleached bone is a barstard

I haer you there. I'm making mine slightly different but its going to have a white base for everything that isnt carapace.


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Not sure why I stopped there... My scheme makes it easy considering i have a can of white primer and a prethinned bottle of white paint.


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Also, Tyranofex or Tervigon? Keep in mind I will be using it for a planestrike mission in a few weeks. After that I will have a month to buy/make the other.

tony_nids_10 wrote:I haer you there. I'm making mine slightly different but its going to have a white base for everything that isnt carapace.


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Not sure why I stopped there... My scheme makes it easy considering i have a can of white primer and a prethinned bottle of white paint.

Lucky. A white undercoat would eliminate the need for tallarn flesh, but since the Trygon is black now, It needs a solid Foundation, and only tallarn flesh gives that real "flesh undertone" (maybe why it's a flesh color??LOL).

I think its army builder that puts out colored primers. I almost picked up some bleached bone primer before i chose white.

Oh yeah, I heard they're pretty god. Can you give me a link?

Glad to!

http://usshop.thearmypainter.com/products.php?ProductGroupId=2

tony_nids_10 wrote:Glad to!

http://usshop.thearmypainter.com/products.php?ProductGroupId=2

Wow! What a great company! They're even nice enough to tell you what citadel color it's supposed to be!

Great, thanks. I'm picking up some of that matte black first,then white,then bleached bone. All for about 40 dollars,great!

Anything I can do to help!

Now back to the big question, Tyranofex or Tervigon?

Tervigon for sure. Tyrannofexes are a waste of points \


Not only that,but I'm sure you'll have an excuse to use up a crap-load of guants coming out of it,which is always fun!

By the way,we have a trade going on. Have you sent yet?

I finished putting together my Trygon prime last night and a few gaunts and gants and a few genestealers and started trying to mind something to make boneswords out of for my prime and some warriors as I don not have any plasticard or the money to buy any at the moment. I just ordered some wings last night too for thy Harpy I want to make. Now all I need to do is snap my fingers and somehow make another Trygon kit appear... Ok my fingers are sore from trying and I've got little ones to make breakfast for. I will post some pics a little later I promise!


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Also I just put some time into revamping a really old metal ravernor with a new set of scy talons and a set of rending claws. I love updating the old sculpts. Really makes him stand out against the other 2 in the brood. Again. Pics later, after I prime everything...if the rain ever lets up.

I got an old raenor body tail thing, idk what i will do with it, conversion?!


p.s dude revelation, should i convert myh bikes into a half bike deamon fiend conversion?

HELL YES! They will look like twisted, hi tech centaurs! DOOOO IT!

Oh, I'm on an assembly spree right now! In addition to all the stuff listed above I've managed to assemble a Hive Tyrant, a Tyrant Guard, and a Hive guard! No signs of stopping either! Well until lunch gets here HAHA!

What about painting? Omg,it'll take sooo long for you to paint all this stuff...

I got a metal Zoey finished before lunch got here. I'll be getting back to the building in about an hour or so I think.

@ Samus_aran115- Painting is going to be rough to say the least but I think I'll be able to get most everything done before the deadline. Maybe not the real detail work but the primary layers.

Awesome. It would be a shame not to see so many awesome models painted. I forgot you use spray paint,so it takes no time at all to do the rest! (I guess things like faces and those "fleshy parts" under the arm will be the only things to do!)

Well I will still need to do the carapace on all of them and there is a TON of detail to do.

tony_nids_10 wrote:Well I will still need to do the carapace on all of them and there is a TON of detail to do.

Do you glue your gaunts before painting them?

The ones I got in trade are glued, but the ones I do will not be glued when I paint.

BUMP ME!

yeah to be honest i would primer and basegoat via spraygun your nigs before assembly.... save so much time.

tony_nids_10 wrote:The ones I got in trade are glued, but the ones I do will not be glued when I paint.

Yeah, that's how I do it.

I just found like 11 guants (roughly 3 of them with legs unattached). I'm painting those first, then moving on to genestealers,then the two warriors I have lying around without arms.

Then hopefully I'll buy a hive Tyrant already. Man that's an awesome model. Not looking forward to buying the Tyrant Guard I want though...20$ is kind of steep.Maybe I'll convert those out of some terminators,haha. Just throw some chitin on them, give em a tail and some scything talons, BOOM, tyrant guard!

Haha, not sure how thats going to work! I'm not a big fan of the $20 tag either... Maybe I'll find a way to make one like I did with the Zoeys.

Like 12 dollars sounds better..Or just make them a plastic Kit.

Plastic would be great! Especialy on a unit that is litterally made to die!

Man,this forum is slow. Other than you,I've got two important trade messages that people seem to be ignoring. Or,well at least one of them said he was going to ship tomorrow,but he hasn't replied since like 3 days ago... :(

Just venting,sorry


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Man,this forum is slow. Other than you,I've got two important trade messages that people seem to be ignoring. Or,well at least one of them said he was going to ship tomorrow,but he hasn't replied since like 3 days ago... :(

Just venting,sorry

Man,this forum is slow. Other than you,I've got two important trade messages that people seem to be ignoring. Or,well at least one of them said he was going to ship tomorrow,but he hasn't replied since like 3 days ago... :(

Just venting,sorry

It's hard to have a quick forum when, like I said before there are about 4 people who actually post on here. Hope you hear about your trades soon!

I'm sorry! i feel your pain... dude.... finals week fail for me this morning but i'll give you some ideas later on in the afternoon!!!

That would be greatly appreciated!


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Oh, since the apparant monsoon that was sitting over me this weekend has passed I may try to go out and prime all of the stuff I put together!

Nice Doom! Goodluck on the Tervigon!

Just painted my first Tyranid today. I like it enough, but a can of that bleached bone would really be nice..hold on,I'll upload a pic with my Chit webcam.....

Here ya go! Here's ma smexy Carnifex,could you look at the est of my stuff and tell m what you think?

I think it looks good but maybe it could use a wash?

I think so too. I'm picking up some ogryn flesh soon,then I'll wash all of the at once. Badab Black looks terrible on bleached bone

I'm pretty sure that I am not going to get this project done in the 17 day limit I have... I cant seem to get time to prime and paint and thats a problem.

tony_nids_10 wrote:I'm pretty sure that I am not going to get this project done in the 17 day limit I have... I cant seem to get time to prime and paint and thats a problem.

Don't give up! You can do it! Put your best foot forward! Try your hardest! Run forest,run! Luke,use the force!

GO GO GO!!!

i suck because of finals week,. sorry i cant give any CC :(

Do what you can. And do it to the best you can. Don't lose heart.

I haven't completely given up yet but It's tough to find time to do with 3 kids and 2 jobs... I'll try to get as much done as I can. I still need to finalize my 1500 point list.

would be cool if you could bump!

p.s don't loose hope, just speed paint the buggers!

The army list is pretty important. That way,you can prioritize what you have to paint. 1500 points is easier than everything!

It needs to be 1500 pts of planetstrike fury! Any suggestions?

Hmm....Trygon swarm? Or harpies and gargoyles. But those are just fluffy things. Zoanthropes are winz in any army

I'm going to run a Trygon and a Trygon Prime. As well as a squad of Zoey's and a brood of Carnifex 2 of them geared for CC and breaking down bastion walls.

Good idea. I got some pictures up. Take a look!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/299455.page

Oh,and can you PM me when you send out?I know how busy you are,so I won't pester you about it.

NOOOOO

i find that fexes are a points sink

They are,compared to tyrants,which are 15 points cheaper.

Samus_aran115 wrote:They are,compared to tyrants,which are 15 points cheaper.

and yet the tyrant is much more affective. i say unless you want to convert the fex to a tyrant then scrap it

That's what I'm saying,lol.

Why bother with the carnifex anymore? At one point,it served several positions (like a shooty fex,wtf) and was a mainstay. Now that we have trygons and tervigons and biovores and hive tyrants,why bother with it?

The 9 STR is nice,but that's it. The trygon has 6 wounds,which makes it wayyy better.

All of this stuff is cool. Love the Zoan and Trygon!

Thanks warboss!

The whole point of the brood of Carnifexes is to break down the walls of the fortress and on the way there they will still draw fire away from the more squishy units out there. The attacks they will give me on the walls of the bastion will free up the more "useful" units to work of the other defenses. All these guys are for is to make openings in the walls for my little ones to swarm through.

Plus theres a lot of people who remember carnifexes of old editions. I still see people wanting to take carnifexes out first before other stuff. If anything they are good shock units to draw fire from softer elements of your swarm.

EXACTLY Lexx! I'm really banking on them drawing alot of fire and I think they will do just that.

I lvoe your 'Nids, and do the bike thing.

Well, carnifex's in spods would actually be useful in planetstrike.. scatter role and defenders' terrain setup willing. Trygon prime would be a barrel of fun, as always, on the charge (with AG) would need 7 on 2d6 to glance, 8 to pen.

Genestealers would be good, use them to crack open bastions in desperate situations or, more preferably, eat up the squishy stuff once it's out of the hard stuff!

Pyrovores could flame through fire ports, and roast some nice light infantry..

Zoe's might not be so good.. BUT THE DOOM.. against "immobile mech", should be a blast.

Tyrant can make stuff WS1/BS1 to help out the rest of your force.. and he can stomp stuff.

Hive guard might be good for any tanks hiding or coming on from reserve.

Spam gaunts with a walking on/DS Tervigon.

Basically,

Trygon(prime?)

Carnifex in spods or just walking on or just DSing normally

Tyrant

Doom

Tervigon

Stealers

Hive guard


I'm no expert, but..

As for defense? you'd stick your bastions on the board edge, block off reserves access points near your bastions with impassible terrain and walk on fex's and MC's from behind your fortress.. Basically the Gauntlet from the Planetstrike WD I believe..

It'd be helpful if you actually drew up a list of what you have/army list you were considering.


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Ah - missed a page! Eh, above is for planetstrike anyways..

@ comisarmilo- I am def doing the bike/demon hybrids once my nids are done... well at least 1500 points worth anyway.

Oh Darkvoid, you always pop in with usefull info. I swear you read the thread and wait for the oppertunity!

I will def have the doom in there as well as a trygon AND a trygon prime. I think I'm going to skip on the Tervigon for the attacking portion of the fighting. If I was on the defensive side I would use it but mainly I want to split the tough outer layers with MC's so that everything else can eat up the gooey screaming center!


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I sadly still have no pyro/biovores and I have a bunch of stealers and a broodlord sitting around. I need to get a few more hive guards. Any suggestions on how i should outfit my tyrant for the game?


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OOOHHH!! I got my wings in today for either a Harpy I will be making or maybe for my tyrant... I think magnets are in order! I have those too btw. The only thing I am not looking forward to is the actual painting of all of these bad bugs. It's not the amount of painting I have to do so much as the quality I will be able to manage. I painted alot in the past but it's been WAAAYY too long since I picked up a brush and I am afraid they will look like... well poo.

Tyrant, hands down. Harpie mepic phailzzz.

Gives him the ability to DS, no? Then assault bastions, no? Increased manoeverability in defense will be fun for keeping synapse.

More later.

Anyone else have some thoughts as to how to kit the tyrant out?

I like him with a HVC,but that's just me. I like a LOT of shooting in my Tyranids.

It's a personal flaw,I know.
I take warriors with VCs, carnifexes with HVCs and scything talons and a hive tyrant with HVC,lashwhip and bonesword. So sue me.

I'm actually working on a few Tyrants for future use too. One of wich is going to be a flyrant with a few sets of twin linked something or other on him and some beastly wings. I'm also going to attempt to make some taloned feet similar to (but not nearly as good as) insaniak's feet on the flyrant he was working on.

Since my wings came in I decided to get to work making a flyrant. Here is a pic of the wings after they have been trimmed down to fit the Tyrant body a bit better and 4 of the magnets that will be used to change out the weapon sets. I will also be working on the feet and the TL weapons and the one handed heavy weapons to work with the loss of the 2 arm sockets to the wings! More to come...

Nice tyrant wings. For my tyrant I was initially going for the 1 x Talons and Heavy venom cannon. But I'm going for the Bone-sword and lash whip combo and a set of talons. Also giving him old adversary and sticking him in the center of my main forces so everyone nearby will gain preferred enemy special rule. With my shock troop melee carnifex on one flank and the rest of my 1k army being Hormgaunts and genestealers with Broodlord and warriors. Had a lot of fun swamping a 1k Imperial guard force last month with that list. The Fex took a beating but he survived with 1 wound. Whilst the tyrant surged up the center with the gaunts. Fun times.

Lexx wrote:Nice tyrant wings. For my tyrant I was initially going for the 1 x Talons and Heavy venom cannon. But I'm going for the Bone-sword and lash whip combo and a set of talons. Also giving him old adversary and sticking him in the center of my main forces so everyone nearby will gain preferred enemy special rule. With my shock troop melee carnifex on one flank and the rest of my 1k army being Hormgaunts and genestealers with Broodlord and warriors. Had a lot of fun swamping a 1k Imperial guard force last month with that list. The Fex took a beating but he survived with 1 wound. Whilst the tyrant surged up the center with the gaunts. Fun times.

Why take talons if you had old adversary? Take the brainleech wotsits.

Ah this is a good point! Thanks. Will be using that next time.

For tyrant scratch old adversary, use hive commander with outflanking tervigon!

First person to make a 1500 pt list consisting of at least one trygon and one trygon prime and not bio or pyrovores wins 10 points!

HQ-Tyrant with wings,LW and BS and talons
Elites- none
Troops-3 warriors w/ talons and a venom cannon
20 Hormaguants,toxin sacs
20 hormaguants,toxin sacs
10 genestealers, claws,1 broodlord
3 warriors with talons and some sort of crappy shooter
Fast-none
Heavy Support- Trygon prime
Trygon
Carnifex with HVC and talons

1 Hive Tyrant @ 220 pts (Hive Commander; Heavy Venom Cannon; Paroxysm; The Horror)
1 Tyrant Guard @ 60 pts

1 The Doom of Malan'tai @ 130 pts (Mycetic Spore)
1 Mycetic Spore

2 Zoanthrope Brood @ 160 pts (Mycetic Spore)
1 Mycetic Spore

10 Termagant Brood @ 50 pts

10 Termagant Brood @ 50 pts

1 Tervigon @ 185 pts (Toxin Sacs; Catalyst)

1 Tervigon @ 185 pts (Toxin Sacs; Catalyst)

1 Trygon @ 210 pts (Adrenal Glands)

1 Trygon Prime @ 250 pts (Adrenal Glands)


1500!


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DS the trygons and leave the tervigons in reserve. Pop one terv out from hole and outflank the other with +1 to reserves


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and pop the spores out with those too

You can't bring spods out of the hole, and The Horror is not worth it - anything with a low enough LD to have a decent chance of being affected probably won't be trying to assault it anyway.. only exception I can think of is nobs or nob bikers. Take Old Adversary instead - much more awesomesausage better.
Since he wants a flyrant, drop the Tyrant guard and give the Tyrant wings. Just fly in and out of cover.

IMO above list should also drop the broodlord. Pretty crappy model, it's metal, and 60pts is just silly for what it does. Other than that, the above is a pretty good list.


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Oh and Tony, can we have a pic(s) of your entire nid force so far? That'd be nice.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:You can't bring spods out of the hole, and The Horror is not worth it - anything with a low enough LD to have a decent chance of being affected probably won't be trying to assault it anyway.. only exception I can think of is nobs or nob bikers. Take Old Adversary instead - much more awesomesausage better.
Since he wants a flyrant, drop the Tyrant guard and give the Tyrant wings. Just fly in and out of cover.

IMO above list should also drop the broodlord. Pretty crappy model, it's metal, and 60pts is just silly for what it does. Other than that, the above is a pretty good list.


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Oh and Tony, can we have a pic(s) of your entire nid force so far? That'd be nice.

which list mine? horror is actually pretty good as is paraoxy one and they are free, yeah addd the wings take our the cannon and guard. but ive used this list in vassal before and it works so well., with spores and trygons coming in on a 3+ on turn too, win!

Two*

Yeah, Paroxism is awesome. Leech essence is the only other one I would ever take. Very much a power you'd use only if it was a specific situation, for instance, the Tyrant is on 1 wound. Terminator squad 18" shooting you? Fly up, strip wounds for yourself and assault. Terminators about to assault? Above.

Nob bikers? (and so on..)

I will gladly give a few pics of the entire force once they are all primed at least. I will be heading over to my parents on Sunday and they have a garage that I can prime in since the weather here lately has been entirely to rainey and windy to accomplish anything. I attempted to prime yesterday and the wind blew it away before it even hit the trygon so i called it a fail...


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Keep in mind that my heart isn't set on a flyrant, its just one of my many projects I'm working on.


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I'm going to run one zoey brood and a brood of hive guard also. I think I might also avoid the tervigons for this game just because I have NOTHING to use for a proxy.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:You can't bring spods out of the hole, and The Horror is not worth it - anything with a low enough LD to have a decent chance of being affected probably won't be trying to assault it anyway.. only exception I can think of is nobs or nob bikers. Take Old Adversary instead - much more awesomesausage better.
Since he wants a flyrant, drop the Tyrant guard and give the Tyrant wings. Just fly in and out of cover.

IMO above list should also drop the broodlord. Pretty crappy model, it's metal, and 60pts is just silly for what it does. Other than that, the above is a pretty good list.


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Oh and Tony, can we have a pic(s) of your entire nid force so far? That'd be nice.

My list is pretty good? Thank you! It's my first Tyranid list ever. I just threw together some stuff I liked,and BOOM,list.

Oh,and seriously Tony_nids. Have you sent out yet? It's been almost a week already.

Patience is a virtue Samus. I lost my job last week and money is tight. This is EXACTLY why I told you not to send till youi got the stuff from me. I will send as soon as I get a paycheck from my new job.

Sorry about your job :( but hey! Make some metric spores for cheap which you can and use my list! I've tested it on vassal! LolP

Honestly, I didn't want to say anything about it but clearly it needed to be done. Did you make a battle report?

Okay, absolutely no problem. I'm sorry about your job. I know how it is these days.

Just whenever is fine. I think I can wait until about july. Totally no problem. Thanks for keeping me in the loop.

Aaaand onto hobby.

I'm considering buying a hive tyrant in the next couple weeks. I'm thinking the loadout will be: Wings,LashWhip,Bonesword,HVC and EVERY SINGLE BIOMORPH OPTION.What should I use for wings?

Lol,yeah, I'm going for a maxed-out Tyrant. I'm not really sure why. It'll cost more than a swarmlord if I do it.

ALSO: I can send out early for you, if you really need the bits. I found like three more biomorph sprues for you. They've all got the Chitin pieces on them, which are hopefully useful to you.

tony_nids_10 wrote:Honestly, I didn't want to say anything about it but clearly it needed to be done. Did you make a battle report?

Noo i didin't :( BUT basically my tyrant (which taking out the guard and gun and adding wings could work) with hive commander allowed me to outflank 1 troops (Tervigon) and +1 to reserves. On capture ancd control a tervigon was sitting on the objective while spewing out uselesss termigaunts; my tyrant went to town as he ususally does, and the remaining termigaunts got killed easy but they were basicallly meatshield. Doom came in on turn 2 to spore pod out behind a few ork trukks and killed 7 total on the drop (orks got lucky on thier LD tests, 5 squads were in range) The spore took out a trukk tho!! the trygons came out and killed many orks and those ranged weapons they got rule! they became a target sing too but there are so many the aenemy didin't know what to do! the zoeys came in on turn 3 and took out any remaining armor and it was just win win win!

If you used that list you would need the zoeys, doom, trygons and 1 terv in reserves.

Well Ironfront, Looks like I need one more zoey and I need to make a Tervigon!

Samus, I'm using the balrog wings from GW. You can buy them in the LotR bits section for $10. All I did to make them fit was trim down the smell sections of wing circled here..

and you end up with...


Now the reason I trimmed these the way I did was because that little flap was too long and extended past the end of the carapace and looked funny. Also after trimming I realized that now I could pivot the wings way more and work on a much less statue-like pose.




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WING LINK- http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1060003&prodId=prod1140257

Incase you need it.

Awesomeeee. I forgor the balrog even had wings,lol.

That's a great set of wings for it. Jow do you guys feel about a maxed out hive tyrant? Some people say I should just take the swarmlord....Maybe I should.

I think It all depends on the rest of your army really. What else are you running? Maybe even start a thread in the 40k discussions and get as many opinions on it. Or check out the thread I started awhile back on Tyrants...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/298768.page

Well i made my dred!


just saying :p

Ok so I managed to get everyting primed and as per request of Darkvoid, here is what i have so far...

Prime and Regular Trygons

Tyrant

The Twins

Raverners...the one on the far right is an old old school version with some newer arms.

My lonely hive guard

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Clearly I have alot of building still to do and alot of painting too!


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Also I am trying to decide what wash I want to use... I NEED YOUR INPUT PEOPLE!

On the left is good old delvan mud and on the right is some paynes grey wash... Let me know what you guys think

Where did you get the paynes grey?

oh and those fexes should totally be tervi's

good work!

Its actually a paint from a local craft store watered down. I an working on a tervi! I am big-i-fying a carnifex to a larger proportion to look like it can hold the teaming masses! For my planetstrike game I don't think I'm going to run more than one tervi anyway. You never said what one you like more!

which what i like?

tony_nids_10 wrote:
Also I am trying to decide what wash I want to use... I NEED YOUR INPUT PEOPLE!

On the left is good old delvan mud and on the right is some paynes grey wash... Let me know what you guys think

That.

Left of course!

Why d'you have crushing claws on the fexes? You loose the +2 Inititiative bonus for the charge! (and all the lovely re-rolls!)

The crushers are for the bastion attack. I don't need them to have the bonus to initiative if they are tearing through a wall.


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Also I wont be running the fexs in my regular army list.


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Oh and Void, Stealer on the left or stealer on the right?

First off, depends what you roll. Sometimes, infiltrating might be good, especially in a DoW deployment against mech guard or hiding behind a building or something. Otherwise, just jump off the board edges and grab some isolated units - the enemy will either focus on them too much or not enough. But it depends if you get good timing. They're best used if they come on just at the same time as the main body of your force is about to attack.

Also, Hive Tyrant with Hive Commander lets you outflank a 30 man Hormagaunt squad - just let the fun happen! (genestealers need to be with them)

Small update and sadly the only update for today. I got a little beasty painted up and finished only to decide that I do not like the colors I have on him... I'm changing up my paint scheme again and I need some ideas real real quick! I know that I'm washing the nids in delvan mud to look like the genestealer in the above picture (left side) so all I need is an idea for the carapace color. No red simply because it would look entirely like hive fleet kraken and I'm not a big fan of that. No blue because someone at my FLGS is already doing that. Please PLEASE! any help would be great since at the moment I am stumped.

Well what colours do you like?

Honestly I don't really care at this point. I just want to make them look good. I tried a yellow carapace as a test pc and I like how it came out but it just feels a little too bright. I'll try and post a pic of it tomorrow since I wont be getting home till the wee hours of the morning.

Well, either I've forgotten or not read about it or it hasn't been posted; but what scheme were/are you trying to go for?

I was going to do blue but as I mentioned before, someone at my FLGS has done that already. Also I am avoiding red.

Well, I think a brownish type thing for the "skin" with a very light shade of green for the carapace would be nice. But that's just me, and it'd be very hard to pull off what I have in my mind IMO.

Maybe.. grey nids? With a nice yellow mottled pattern? Oh wait, GW did that. And it was AWESOMEsauce.

Hmph. Red and blue are pretty important things, y'know.

Yellow/green/orange/purple/grey/white/black/metal/turquoise are pretty much all you've got left to work with.. and I think we can rule out metal

Purple nids are always nice

Tbh, coming up with a paint scheme that looks good is hard, coming up with a paint scheme that looks good AND that you like is very hard. Try looking in the 4th edition/5th edition codexs for inspiration, and/or surf the web. [/shutsup]

Is the paynes grey you have an actual ink or a diluted paint, because the Paynes grey I use looks quite different, and I would venture alot better.

The devlan mud one looks good, more bone type. Grey over white just looks wrong.

I think Brownish Skin and Green Carapace would like mint. But the green would have to be pretty subdued, but the highlights of the green could be pretty aggressive...

I kinda like the green idea. I'm leaning toward a very dark green with some stark, light highlights. Thoughts?

Thanks for all of the support from the few of you that bothered to coment but I'm sticking a fork in the project. I cant get them all painted in time to beat the 26th deadline. I will continue to post on here and put up pics.

Awww.Are you still going to paint them though?

Also.....well,do I need to ask?

BLAHBLAHBLAH!

makee zerglings!

I am def going to finish and paint everything! I'll even be posting my wip pics of the flyrant I am working on. Also Samus my ever patient friend. All will be shipped on thursday! Just so long as you PM me a list of what I'm supposed to send HAHA!


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@IronfrontAlex- You best watch your back friend. The zerglings are hatching as we speak!

HAHAHAHA, oh wait, that's not funny..

It's everything on your thread listed here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/292520.page

Which would be:

Azrael, ezekiel, the veteran and all your CSM bits, IIRC

Yep, it is. I have your PM to prove it!

Great to hear that we'll still be getting some hobby here.

You will absolutely get some hobby. I am looking forward to posting some pics of the flyrant. I drilled out the bottom arm holes to fit some magnets and it is ready to get going!

Nobody hit up my swap shop post, putting the stuff on ebay :(

p.s lets see some final products!

For a small update here are some wip pics of the torso of the tyrany getting the magnet treatment. Here are the 2 pcs with the lower are holes drilled out a bit to fit the magnets...


And here is how it looks with the magnets in.


The magnets are not flush with the "top" of the holes, they are actually deeper so that I can GS over them and turn them invisible HAHA. More pics soon I promise



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Oh! I'm also almost done painting a littile term with a color test that I will post up as son as I finish it for some CC.


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The top holes are not magnetized to leave room for the wings that will be permanently in place. I have another Tyrant that I will be magnetizing to fill any and all other purposes that do not include wings.

The hive tyrant kit is freakin massive. Heavy too.

I am in the process of making one handed heavy weapons and one handed TL weapons for him now! I also changed the head a bot to allow for movement. Pics soon!!

All the GS work is done (poorly) on the torso, tail, guns, as well as some mods to the head to give it a slightly more aerodynamic feel. All I need to do now is magnetize the arms themselves and it will all be ready to assemble. Also I did a minor mod to the wings to give them that tyranid feel. Pics will be going up later today or tomorrow.

Pics or it didn't happen.

LOL^

The forgeworld Flyrant's wings are huge! I never even looked at them before.

IronfrontAlex wrote: Pics or it didn't happen.

Well friend, before you start to call shenanigans on me here is a PIC! of the wips so far.



I am waiting for the GS to harden so I can cut it a bit to try and balance my lack of sculpting skills!

Awesomesauce.

Thanks Void. I still need to put mags in each arm and cover them in GS. Once thats done all that will be left is assembly and painting.

Alright. All of the weapons have magnets and I did a ton of gap filling and added some filler to the torso to make the wings fit cleanly. I also added some GS to the bottom and top of the torso to make the flyrant taller and a bit more poseable. The only thing left to do is gs over the weapon arm magnets and assemble the monster! Pics soon.

Due to the fact that my wife's camera got cought by the window during a freak thunderstorm it is out of comission... On the plus side The flyrant is assembled and waiting for a priming and painting! Also I fully painted my first figure in the final scheme of brown and black. I'm really happy with how it came out and i hope that soon i will have a ton of pics to show to catch everything up. Oh and for my second painting project I'm working on my Trygon!

Still here.

ditto!

Wow I thought everyone was gone!


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Here is a poorly taken pic with the wife's phone of the paint scheme. Let me know what you think.

As you say - poor picture. Damn, I just remembered about your camera . Bad luck with that though. From what I can tell, you've got a good base scheme, but it does lack a lot of detail from what I can see. Search around dakka for tips, or make another thread in the appropriate catagory asking about tips for painting your models. I've done it before, with extreme success.

I want to see the paint scheme.

I need a good camera! The carapace has 2 levels of highlights and all the teeth are painted up too. Also due to poor lighting and picture quality you cant see much of the diff in color on the claws and talons vs. the body color. I promise you, in person it looks alot better!

Looks good! I finished the skin on my trygon prime, here take a look:

did it nom nomon that sandwich?


p.s tonynids i know im gakky i've been really busy latley, i did take some pics but ill be posting soon!

Sure did

Hey Hey Hey XD

Just read through and i reckon that this blog has some Kwel Beans goin' off!!!

Love all your models and i'm looking forward to seeing your Flyrant XD

P.S.
Lovin' the Scheme XD

@IronfrontAlex- I didn't think you were ever coming back!

@Samus_aran115- Trygon looks amazing! How dod you go about doing the fleshy bits?

@Bloodhorror- My cat decided it hates both my computer and my flyrand and knocked the monitor of one onto the other... Needless to say we almost didn't have a cat anymore. I'll be putting some serious time into fixing that and then Its off to prime and paint!

It's a basecoat of tallarn flesh. Then I drybrushed the white on. I later filled in the bad looking fleshy parts with some watterwed down tallarn flesh. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. The only part I hate is the mouth. I don't know why I used that pink on the gums. The teeth will be white tommorrow.

I still say it looks amazing! Pink gums and all!

Cool beans.

Seeing as how the wife's camera is still dead and I refuse to put up crappy pics I will try to update as I can.

My new project is to make 3 more Zoeys from Trygon bits and warrior bits. I'm hoping that it will go well and quickly! I have tomorrow off and it would be a good way to spend the day. Any idea how to do the back vents?

BUMP me!


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you know What I mean?

Due to the simple fact that my insides are attempting to get outside I have made no progress today. I'm sorry but there will be something up soon. What a waste of a day off... Why is it I'm never sick on work days?

I love tyranids now XD

@Asherian Command- I'm really glad to hear that! I hope I'll be able to put up some more soon! I decided today while I was staring into the abyss (being ill) That I do not want my nids to all look the same and it would be an absolute crap schute if I didnt make some variations from model to model. How could they be living things that are all the EXACT same??


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On a side note, I have decided that my Doom is not as imposing as I feel it should be. That said I am also going to make a new one in addition to the 4 Zoanthropes I have in the works... The new Doom will hopefully look the part of World Killing brain but a bit better.

tony_nids_10 wrote:@Asherian Command- I'm really glad to hear that! I hope I'll be able to put up some more soon! I decided today while I was staring into the abyss (being ill) That I do not want my nids to all look the same and it would be an absolute crap schute if I didnt make some variations from model to model. How could they be living things that are all the EXACT same??


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On a side note, I have decided that my Doom is not as imposing as I feel it should be. That said I am also going to make a new one in addition to the 4 Zoanthropes I have in the works... The new Doom will hopefully look the part of World Killing brain but a bit better.

you should use wire+GS to make electricity pulsating around the DOOM

-jumps in-

You do know that in the Tyranid errata/FAQ they made cover saves apply and he can't target embarked units?

Yeah, Robin just had to give his mech guard buddies another advantage .

I fully intend to (I cant believe I'm saying this) make it almost look like he is going super sayen and energy is rippling around him.


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So I'll have the Zoeys pop the transport and the doom will run cleanup on anyone that makes it out alive


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just a quick update... I got some ambition and re-assembled my flyrant after the cat killed it. Also came up with a pretty good way to do Zoeys from bits. Pics soon I hope.

very nice! like that flamer atthe start

Thanks alot! I had alo of fun goofing around with those mini "servitors" I really need to find some time to finish all of my little side projects.


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If never ceases to amaze me when I click on "My Subscribed Threads" and its mine that someone has taken the time to comment on! I just want to say thanks to everyone that posts on here. Believe it or not, it keeps me going sometimes!

new pics?

Ok, so the wife's camera is back up and running! As promised here are some of the things I've been working on...

First off is a much better quality pic of my finished carnifex. As you can see there is quite a bit more detail than was seen in the previous photo. I am going to be doing another cote of bleached bone over the ink wash also.



The recently finished/broken/rebuilt Flyrant!



Complete with magnetized weapons!



One last view with the repositioned tail



Now for the Zoey WIP



I was trying something a little different on the arms and legs to try and get more substantial sized limbs that look slightly less... well goofy than the metal ones.



And this wil be close to the final based pose. I want it to look like it is slowly flying at enemy units not just sitting there like a tree.



As always any CONSTRUCTIVE Criticism is welcome!

Nice! Would post more.. but school..gahh..

Have you seen this? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/303261.page Just thought you'd like it

I love the painjob!

I'm glad you like it Ironfront

@Finch Claw- I saw those and they are delightfully disgusting looking! I may have to add that to my ever growing list of side projects.

Thought I'd pop over - and glad I did Paint job and scheme looks great - as do the conversions and magnetisation! Might have to make it a 'Nid rather than an SM trade

Keep up the good work!

Arakasi

@Arakasi- Thanks for the visit! I'll swap a nid for a SM

Small pictureless update... All 4 Zoey bodies have been assembled similar to the one pictured above. Every one is posed slightly differently. Also The main differences will be on their backs (vent styles if any) and on their heads (misc spikes and antena) Hope to get some pics up tonight or tomorrow!

i wanna see! These are going to be awesome im sure of it.

I'm really trying to make them unique. I am stressing a bit on the heads though. I want them to look good.

Look quite good tony, just got done slogging thru the blog. I like the vast improvments in your gs skills and modeling.
Maybe after the Marine exchange has run its corse, you should start a Hive Fleet Exchange program. Ive got some from Hive Fleet Injectionmold nids, lol

HAHA Thanks whalemusic360, I've been trying really hard to improve my nonexistant skills with every side project. I'm trying to at least end up with a respectable hive fleet. As for the post SM exchanges, I am all for some more types! I would love other gants and gaunts! Then again I would trade anything.


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On a completely non tyranid topic I was looking to get some constructive criticism on this pc I put together some time ago when I was contemplating doing a Relictors SM army .Also I was wondering if anyone had any insight as to how I should paint this??



As usual please let me know and ideas.

What weapon loadout is that? The claw is very cool.
I would do it with lots of rust on the metal. It looks like a battle worn veteren, and doesnt even have paint yet.

Love the dread. Have no idea on the paint scheme.

The claw is actually two metal ork claws. I dont remember what boss they are from. The gun is an autocannon from the IG heavy crew.

I'm glad it looks like a vet, I was trying to make it look like there were a few salvaged parts on it. I think I'm going to go back and add some guitar string "wires" to some spots to bring it up to date a bit more. Any other suggestions model wise? I am def going to rust and chip the gak out of this thing. There is no way anyone is going to mistake this for something walking off the floor of the adeptus mechanicus showroom with some greasy dread salesman behind it!


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OH! you cant see it from this angle but there is a flamer between the claws too.

Cool.

Any tips on rust effects that dont involve me buting pigment kits and such?

I'd check out SoO's blog, its got some crazy ass weather teqs in it.
Be careful not to go overboard, it can very easily slip into CSM or Ork realm.
Are you fielding it as a CCW/HF and twin linked autocannon?

I recently looked at some of Sons of Ordar's work have a look at this: http://thepaintingcorps.blogspot.com/2010/07/on-table-rusting-practice.html

For the dred add another autocannon to barrel to make it legal first of all! maybe black legion colors? maybe alpha legion? or for SM sould drinkers or imperial fists!

Dreads have to have autocannons as twin linked.

Just remember I am NOT a SM player nor will I ever be most likely. This was just thrown together a few years ago for fun. I'm not entirely worried about it being legal considering it will never see a table beyond my own kitchen table while I paint Though if I had ANY IG bits I prob would make it legal.


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Plus the ones that come with the dread are a bit too small and sad looking for me. The whole point was to not look so stubby and blah.

i bumb you but you can't do the same? For shame mad'am! hhaha

Thanks to a buddy of mine I have finally taken a much needed test run of my nids!! Considering it was a massive learning experience it was alot of fun. He used a Deathwing list and I'm not going to lie seeing all of those terminators on the board scared the hell out of me. As I said it was a "for fun" game and I learned a whole lot. Also I think he is down to help me out with my true scale marine project and my warhound titan scratch build! I am so excited about these projects and to have someone else interested is great! The titan will go to him when its all said and done and that is fine with me because I just cant wait to make it!


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14 more nids to make and I will have my 2000 pt list ready to go!!

sounds quite big.

What part sounds big Finch?

As I said before, all of my plastic Zoey bodies are assembled and I managed to get my Doom attached to a base. I also got my other Hive Tyrant assembled (no wings this time)

I still need to make a few more Genestealers and a fist full of termagants and 15 hormagaunts to get my already changed 2,000 point list going. This only a test list considering I'm not using Tervigons or Warrior spam and not too many Genestealers. Chances are that I'm in for a lesson in loss but I'm more than happy to learn.

PICTURES. BATTLE REPORS. ARMY LISTS.


GIMME GIMME GIMME!

Pictures are a bit up in the air due to continuing issues with the camera... As for battle reports, I will try to get one done up for my game tomorrow. Its going to be 1,500 points and most likely the massacre of my bugs! Not entirely unexpected considering its going to be my second game...ever.

tony_nids_10 wrote:Pictures are a bit up in the air due to continuing issues with the camera... As for battle reports, I will try to get one done up for my game tomorrow. Its going to be 1,500 points and most likely the massacre of my bugs! Not entirely unexpected considering its going to be my second game...ever.

Well, yeah.. but your opponant is deathwing.. even Tyranids can facerape them..

Best of luck with the game. But as it is your second, I'd recommend focusing more on the battle. Equally so, if you do a battle report, you can go over what you did right/wrong..

Thanks for the luck I know I will need it. I am seriously going to try and get a betrep tomorrow. I'll post it up in the section of the forums where it belongs when I do and I will post a link to it here. That way everyone can pick apart my work...I'm not sure if I want to now!

tony_nids_10 wrote:Thanks for the luck I know I will need it. I am seriously going to try and get a batrep tomorrow. I'll post it up in the section of the forums where it belongs when I do and I will post a link to it here. That way everyone can pick apart my work...I'm not sure if I want to now!

Fixed.


Also, you have no choice in posting this batrep - we know where you live and we have petrol bombs.

Jk, we won't kill you.

your army sounds BIG.

I'm trying Finch Claw. What I lack in skill I will make up for in superior numbers and a potty mouth!

Played my first "real" game yesterday! It was a blast. Although I don't have a batrep for you guys... Sorry. Either way I am super pumped up to get going on my nids and I am starting to see what units are good and what units are so-so. Also I have gotten ahold of some plastic termi legs for a true scale SM project I've wanted to do. Mayhaps I will post some WIPs up here if anyone wants to see the progress.

What army did you verse at least?

deathwing caan really suffer against nids if used correctly; what did you use?

p.s BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP

I was up against a Dark Angels (my fav SM chapter incase anyone cares ) And as for what I ran with...

2x Tyrants
4x Zoeys
1x Doom
Bunch of gaunts
Bunch of gants
Cluster of Genestealers (I LOVE Genestealers)
Trygon

Dont ask me for numbers cause I dont remember

It was a really fun game and I am still blown away by the destructive power of genestealers.

In that case you should play space hulk. Genestealers are more killy than ever in that game.. especially against space marine terminators.. oh wait, what was that? Their only enemies are space marine terminators? Well, that's gonna be fun!

I would love to play that! I am honestly amazed at how much I am enjoying the actual game playing portion of the hobby. I already knew I enjoyed the painting and modeling, but the game has me hooked for sure.

Sometimes I just don't believe the "painter only" people. But I do understand them.

Wow. It's 11:40ish PM here - it must be what, 20 to 7 where you are, Tony? Man I need to go and get some sleep. -buggers off before the rambling starts(continues)-

Get some sleep Darkvoid, maybe by tomorrow at this time I will have some more games to talk about since it is 40K day at the FLGS.

Due to the simple fact that I am at a loss as to how the heads should look on my custom Zoeys I sat down and painted my Trygon. Its not completely done mind you but I'm proud to put it on the table! Let me know what you think...







I know I have alot of touch up wprk to do but I like it so far!

As do I!

For tabletop quality, that's right up there at the top, and I like it. You've just got to finish all the highlights and the bone colour is a mit off. However I heard somewhere that washing Gryphone Sephia over a white undercoat gives quite pleasing results - you might want to try it on a gaunt or something.

Looks nice.

Thanks guys.

@Darkvoidof40k- I'm going to go back over all of the raised "bone" parts that have been inkwashed with a mix of bleached bone and skull white so that only the recessed areas stay that nice dark brown.


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Also, I dont mind the slightly "dirty" look it has now just because it does come popping out of the dirt and all.


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I have leftover trygon/mawlok headplates that I am using for my Zoey heads. The only problem is that I only have 3 out of 4... So unless I get one in the warstore mega bits bag that my loving fiance purchased for me, I'm in a bit of trouble. Any suggestions on an alternative for that last one?

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=trygon+head&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Yeah, that thought already crossed my mind Dark but I am in a bit of a money crunch and I am avoiding spending money like the plague.

Any suggestions on how to make something? or mayhaps an alternative?

FYI Dark, I love the quotes in your signature. Especially this one...

Fafnir wrote: Short of walking in on the emperor beating off, I'm not quite sure you could do much worse than the Heresy... other then... y'know... doing it right...

If I would finally recieve that package in the mail, I'd send out the mawloc bits, but alas, UPS is freaking crazy..

You still havent gotten that! WTF is going on?

I have no ideaaaaa. I really need those bits already! I'm half convinced that the UPS guy hates me. I've got three packages coming in from them that have taken over a month!

Let me get some stuff together and I will try sending you some stuff to make up for it. I feel terrible that UPS hates you.

What? No, you don't have to do that...Do you have a tracking number or something? There's a possibility that it just got lost in the mail.

I didn't bother with any of that... I've never needed to. Let me make it up to you Samus.

tony_nids_10 wrote:FYI Dark, I love the quotes in your signature.

You're not the first to comment .


Seriously, post something in the dakka swap shop - I'm sure loads of nid players will have spare mawloc/trygon(prime) heads lying around - just say you'll give 'em a couple of bucks or some tyranid bits or whatever in return.


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tony_nids_10 wrote:Let me get some stuff together and I will try sending you some stuff to make up for it. I feel terrible that UPS hates you.

Don't worry, I'm observing the target as we speak, now, would you like fireworks or do you want him to just disappear?

....Okay, if you insist
I'm starting up imperial guard, if that offers any hints

Also, I love that trygon! You're flesh is better than mine. I just thinned down the rest of my bleached bone last night and did a bunch of basing on my random guants. I still need to get some ogryn flesh sometime soon. I opted to get more mechritered instead,derp.

I need a good scheme for the carapaces though. Black looks too wierd for hive fleet kraken, and scab red is too bright. Should I try dark flesh?
Here's what I'm going for with my trygon: http://mew2cool.deviantart.com/art/Trygon-148087348

If you do the red over a black base it will help to darken it up if you remember to thin it a bit.

tony_nids_10 wrote:If you do the red over a black base it will help to darken it up if you remember to thin it a bit.

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Ah, thinning it is a great idea. I'll make a mix of 3:1 Scab red and chaos black and test that out on a guant carapace. That should look the way I want it to.

Don't forget about maybe a badab black ink over the carapace.

That would work well too. Anything other than flat black would be good

This is a test pc I started when I hadnt settled on a scheme. All it was painted with was a black undercoat, dark green drybrush and then light greeb highlights. So a series of reds over black should give the desired result Samus.




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Ok so I got some more work done in the Zoanthropes. I feel that any 2 living things are not exactly the same. With that in mind I went about trying to make a few variations in the vents on the back of the zoeys. Let me know what you think.

First is my personal favorite.









Like I said, let me know what you think.

need any nids?

Looking good BTW!

I think I need more genestealers... and warriors.

tony_nids_10 wrote:I have leftover trygon/mawlok headplates that I am using for my Zoey heads. The only problem is that I only have 3 out of 4... So unless I get one in the warstore mega bits bag that my loving fiance purchased for me, I'm in a bit of trouble. Any suggestions on an alternative for that last one?

Seriously, why didn't you just ask?
You're sending me a bunch of nid bits, the least I could do is send you some back.
Drop me a PM.

Tony.... Stealers are the sex.


basically they wreck shop. at my local GW my spacewolf rival has changed and he plays 2500 worth of nids

swarmlord
tyrant
3 maxed out ygmarls
and as many genestealers as he could take after that lol.


i kiulled more of his stealers from them exploding my tanks

IronfrontAlex wrote:Tony.... Stealers are the sex.

Agreed.
I wouldn't go quite that overboard, but they're damn good.

I have a great respect for stealers. Though a landraider or 2 tend to make life difficult even for them.


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Nothing accomplished tonight for one reason only... My fiance ordered me the mega bits bag from the warstore and it came in today. Needless to say I have been drooling over it and dreaming of conversions to do and such. I love it and if I get a chance I will buy a few more!

Nightbringer's Chosen wrote:

IronfrontAlex wrote:Tony.... Stealers are the sex.

Agreed.
I wouldn't go quite that overboard, but they're damn good.

I would. Genestealers are pretty sex, last time I checked.

I'm a pretty big fan!

Sadly I have not gotten anything done recently due to illness. I've been sick before but this made me contemplate going to the hospital. I still feel like hell and chances are I will not be working on my bugs for a bit. So for the 4 people following this thread I am sorry and I will try to get going again next week.

tony_nids_10 wrote:Sadly I have not gotten anything done recently due to illness. I've been sick before but this made me contemplate going to the hospital. I still feel like hell and chances are I will not be working on my bugs for a bit. So for the 4 people following this thread I am sorry and I will try to get going again next week.

REAL LIFE
It always comes first.


^ keep that in mind, wargamers, lest you fall into the "40 year old virgin living in his moms basement" trap. Not a happy place to be.

Anyway, hope you get better soon, Toni. /thinks back to very similar memories.

I know real life comes first Void. No worries there. Thankfully I can turn around at any given moment at home and see my beautiful kids and my amazing fiancee so no 40 year old virgin for me thankfully! I have been working with the warstore bits bag my fiancee bought me. I'm planning on helping my younger brother, Rene_Marines, with his Salamanders army. One of the things we going to do is make some vets with the BA muscle torsos. Since I'm not getting another bits bag anytime soon I'm using some Amazing mould putty to make moulds of the torsos front area. That way I can cast multiples to be altered after casting. This way they will be similar but not exactly the same. Now I just need the $40+ needed for the casting resin...

I wasn't directing that "trap" statement at you, just at the collective "wargamers" who read it.

Nice to see void that you can sift through an entire paragraph and find the "important" things being said

Naturally.

Dude, some of this is simply awesome.
You will do the world a good favor by continuing with this.

That looks pretty awesome the head Bro!!

As always Void, Thanks.

@SuperSN- I'm glad you like the learning curve

@Rene_Marines- I'm getting my xbox back soon!

You sir inspire me to want to start nids. Great stuff!

Start up Laughing God! Could always use more bugs in the world. Thanks BTW, it's comments like that one that keep me motivated to make these bugs rather than just proxy them all the time.

Despite my recent issues I have made some progress on the heads for my Zoey-bashes. I'm going to try to get some pics up later this weekend.


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On a completely unrelated note... I'm looking to get going on a second army and I would love some suggestions from my fav peanut gallery.

So Whats it going to be fellas?



My only stipulation is no Ultramarines... Nothing against the little blue boys, just not a huge fan.

Just a quick post to say keep it coming , and also in an attempt to get page 10 showing


edit: that's better can read your last post now. Well Orkses are always welcome

Thanks Monkeytroll, I was trying to figure out why my post wasn't showing!

So thats one vote for the Orkses.

I vote that you work on your homebrew SM chapter more and turn it into a full army!

@Whalemusic360- Before I count your vote I have one question to ask you... Browns or Bengals?


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Ok, I'll count it anyway.

-1
-1

Well this should be funny, but I watch Stealers (dads team) and Pats (grew up in NH). I have no good teams in Ohio at this point, so why bother getting attached?

I've loved the Bengals since I was little. Back when Boomer was young and they saw a super bowl. Don't get me wrong I love the pats but Bengals will always hold a place in my heart...even though they suck out loud. As far as my homebrew chapter goes, well it doesnt go. I may have to start a new one and see how it goes.

I just HATE Chad Johnson. I truely wish he would get hurt or killed in some horrible fashion so others strive to be nothing like him.

Plamer seems like a decent guy tho.

Palmer is great, he just needs to stay healthy and step into the leader role that the Bengals desperately need. There is way too much ego on that team ESP since T.O. is there too. I dont think death is needed but maybe a firm slapto remind him that one person doesn't make a team.

Either way, we are still at Orkses-1 SM-1

Wow, nice 'Nids. I'm a complete novice when it comes to conversions; the best I can do is stick a new head or arm on something. But these show great imagination.

I hope you feel better soon; I'm looking forward to seeing more

Thanks vent. I am feeling a bit better. Believe me I am also a complete novice at conversions but I'm trying to get better one painful step at a time.


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Whalemusic, I decided that I am going to make a new homebrew chapter... but as a killteam not a whole army. I'll still make some for the GMS you've got going though.

Working on my Zoey heads. Trying to get those finished...

Ok so as usual I managed to get really REALLY sidetracked again...

Here is a WIP of what has had me sidetracked for most of the evening. Be kind! It is my first attempt and I am still very much a novice at GS still!

Whats the head from?

Looks good btw.

Its an old metal chaos head. Iron Warriors I believe. It used to have horns.

tony_nids_10 wrote:Ok so as usual I managed to get really REALLY sidetracked again...

Here is a WIP of what has had me sidetracked for most of the evening. Be kind! It is my first attempt and I am still very much a novice at GS still!

Very nice work tony, i love how these true scale marines are becoming really popular. i'm reading the grey knights series atm, and all i keep seeing is that they're twice the size of a trooper, but side by side on the field i'm always dissapointed when they're slightly taller.

Btw - is this your first green stuff scupting (apart from the nids, beautiful btw)? If so nice job

@Kensei81- Thanks for the kind words. I am happy to see them becoming more popular too. they just look so cool! This is indeed my first real working with the GS. I'm really trying to learn and figure out how to work with it without and tools aside from my hands.

Looks great!

GW needs to redo some of their old bitz kits. Those old lightning claws look horrible, but I need like 5 lightning claws and I have to get those...pft.

Well, I managed to get my head back into MY army for a change and Got one of my Zoeys assembled! I'll try to get photos up later this evening.

@Samus_aran115- When did you turn into the girl from Twilight?

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Tru-Scale is also looking AWESOME

Thanks Bear, Maybe I can muster something as good looking as your newly repainted IG army.

tony_nids_10 wrote:
@Samus_aran115- When did you turn into the girl from Twilight?

Thanks, I laughed really loud at work.

Glad I could help

Congrats, you have been siggyed.

whalemusic360

Congrats, you have been siggyed.

What does that even mean?

I just added that quote to my signiture, so you have been immoraliized.

I'm not going to lie, I cant even see your signature.

You, like me, have them turned off. I'll send you a PM and you can see it then.

My sig is set to show on everything... Odd that its not on your view.

Evidently I had mine turned off, which I didnt know was an option, lol.