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Hi guys, I just finished making a couple pairs of biosword arms for Chapterhouse studios.

Instead of just one arm for big and medium sized creatures... we opted to make both left and right versions... also If you noticed and since they are biological arms, they have some diferences between them just to make it more interesting and fresh to the painters.

Chapterhouse folks asked me to insert some sort of crystal (due to fluff) in some place so the interior side of the swords have them instead of the mysterious eye that is present on the exterior side of the blade...

Without further talk here are some pictures...



Some huge zoom ins just for you guys check the texture and detail work






Oh and dont forget that version 1 of whips is also done... I will do a more classical whip version asap.

Great work...you guys keep tempting me to start a Tyranid army!

I imagine that NAVARRO will soon be Chapterhouse's #1 Sculptor, if he isn't already!

Fantastic stuff!

Awesome.

Excellent work as always Navarro! Nice to see your sculpts coming available for purchase now; if it's reasonably priced to purchase and ship from Chapterhouse, I think I'll get a few. Any idea when these would come available?

And how's the work coming along on the Mycetic Spore? Are you also the one who's going to make the Tervigon/Tyrannofex (conversion) set for Chapterhouse?

Redemption wrote:Excellent work as always Navarro! Nice to see your sculpts coming available for purchase now; if it's reasonably priced to purchase and ship from Chapterhouse, I think I'll get a few. Any idea when these would come available?

And how's the work coming along on the Mycetic Spore? Are you also the one who's going to make the Tervigon/Tyrannofex (conversion) set for Chapterhouse?

Shipping is always affordable, its as low as $5 and it maxes out at $12.50 for larger shipments. That is international and in the US pricing.

I am hoping to offer the swords from $4.00 per pair to $6.00, maybe less depending on the casting cost.

Navarro has seen the WIP for the Tervigon kit, it WILL modify the GW Carnifex kit, but the beasty will be bulkier and larger once it is assembled.

Nick

Tervi kit will be done by other chapterhouse sculptor, this way I can concentrate on the versatile pod kit with lots of options

What is the estimated release date for arms and tervigon?
I prefer to buy everything in one go, including the current heads and some SM vehicle stuff.

Tervigon is still very much a work in progress, the arms will be molding in about 1.5 weeks.

Talk about continued sexyness.

The carapace on the upper arms is a bit oddly shaped (too many bumps and curves) but the detail work on the swords themselves is lovely.

Kroothawk wrote:
I prefer to buy everything in one go

Me too.
But the Pods are the most important things to order.

THis just makes me wonder why it takes so long for GW to get anything done hehe. Looks great Nick and Navaro!!

Oh thats simple, they are a big huge company that wants only your money

We actually play the games!

Those are epic! I just stopped by the site after seeing this and I am sad that Chapterhouse has nothing for IG :(

Find me a talented IG sculptor as well as some ideas

Just to clarify, the big pair is for monsterous creatures and the smaller ones for warriors right? Very sexy indeed.

Hmm... honestly they look awesome, very well done indeed. However, not quite what I was expecting... I think there's actually a little too much going on, but that may be because I need to see them painted up in some manner.

Initial concerns: I think the blades might be covered too much by fleshy bits, lessening their immediate visual impact. Again, paint job could certainly change this opinion. Also think there may be too much going on, esp. on the pommel sections for the smaller blades.

I really want to see these painted up as they look tremendously well done, but the aesthetic may not fit my style.

Chapterhouse wrote:Shipping is always affordable, its as low as $5 and it maxes out at $12.50 for larger shipments. That is international and in the US pricing.

I am hoping to offer the swords from $4.00 per pair to $6.00, maybe less depending on the casting cost.

That sounds very reasonable indeed! Can't wait to some the finished casts, preferably painted and on a model.

Navarro has seen the WIP for the Tervigon kit, it WILL modify the GW Carnifex kit, but the beasty will be bulkier and larger once it is assembled.

Nick

Are there public WIP pics? I'm curious! Do you also have a Tyrannofex kit in the pipeline?

I'm kind of dissapointed, the forearms are too bulky and the sword part is too busy

We actually play the games!

Wat to few if you´d ask me

Lookin great. I'm gonna be getting back into my nids soon (waiting on tax return :p) so I will be picking up some of these for sure

Here's my criticism of the bio swords: You have fleshy bits wrapping over the end of the blade that's designed to be driven into enemies. It's like cutting a steak but wrapping your finger around the sharp edge before you do so.

I would have liked them to be a bit longer, right now they look like bio-cleavers

Only downside i am seeing to all your bug releases is you keep making things I want before the previous things are released, leaving me in a constant loop of wanting to make an order but wanting to wait for the new stuff

Breotan wrote:Here's my criticism of the bio swords: You have fleshy bits wrapping over the end of the blade that's designed to be driven into enemies. It's like cutting a steak but wrapping your finger around the sharp edge before you do so.

Maybe they evolved fleshy bits over certain areas of carapace...to inject toxins into the wound as the sharp bits lacerate them... .

Or maybe since they are power weapons, they have some sort of psychic-bio field around the weapon itself that a) protects the weapon and b)disrupts anything that the weapon comes into contact with

I am debating on modifying the Greens after the originals are molded to make them a bit more slim-lined. We would have 2 versions that way.

Nick

Chapterhouse wrote:Or maybe since they are power weapons, they have some sort of psychic-bio field around the weapon itself that a) protects the weapon and b)disrupts anything that the weapon comes into contact with

I am debating on modifying the Greens after the originals are molded to make them a bit more slim-lined. We would have 2 versions that way.

Nick

now that I'd be interested to see. you have my vote for that.

Well thats what you get when I have green card to give life to the concepts inside my mind

Really something that always bothered me a lot on nids was the humanized styled weapons... bio pistols, hand held bio swords? Its silly on a organic prespective... organic things then do be much more random in apearance and much more symbiotic...

As for these swords well I imagined like a wild living creature and pretty much like, say a ballon fish, they would grow bigger and sharper when adrenalin kicks in... internal bones would grow sharper and bulkier and some flesh would burst under the pressure... ehehe never give me green card
Even so I maintained the blade look ( I would have prefered a more random shape) because its called blades afterall

I have to agree with a lot of the criticisms leveled at these... the giant lumpy forearms, the covering of most of the blade with flesh etc etc.

They do not scream Tyranid at me either, they are heavily lacking a lot of the iconic design elements, not sure if that is on purpose for legal reasons or just a design choice - but the lack of overlapping plates, generally too busy appearanc on what are commonly smooth areas, and the style of fleshy bits being extremely busy and tough to decipher. The also don't look at all like swords, more like giant glaves that are a bit to foreward heavy...

This is of course just my opinion, and as demonstrated above many people feel differently, but I would definitely make the next batch far more streamlined and sleek as opposed to these almost club like appendages in order to maximize the appeal in the community. Sometimes, less is more!

Well alot like them and alot want some changes. I think we will most definetly produce them as is, but I may have them modified ever so much to fit the current theme that some want.

It would not take much, some cutting of the plasticard to make them more bladed, smoothing or removal of the flesh on the blades, and a bit of trimming of the bulk on the forearms.

Eh, so dangit, we end up with 2 types of swords instead of one, I wont complain!