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Thanks everyone. This is fair zipping along now.
Everything is has been basecoated and highlighted a few times and it looks pretty good to me.
I would be happy to game with the terrain at this stage but I still fancy doing all of the wet effects, veins and
bringing out a few of the individual components/pods sacs etc in a few muted colours.
Onto the pics and keep the comments coming, they really do help!

Gorgeously disgusting terrain, love the foam effects

The sum of awe.

Brilliant. The expanding foam and paintjob really unite all those different textures well.

Would be gorgous to have a game on a table decorated with those!

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Paint still needs alot of work, freehanded veins, inks glazes, washes and small pools of water effects/varnish etc.

By the looks of your stuff so far, the final painting touches are going to be gorgeous. You mention using small pools of water effects/varnish, but are you only using that for pools in the craters? With everything being so... alive and gross, I think you could get a great effect with an overall matte varnish followed by selective gloss varnishing for that nasty wet look. It would really stress the dangerous, gross, active parts amidst the general mounds of biological ickiness. It would also make those blobs you plan to pick out pop, even in a muted palette. Looking at the shapes now, I feel like some of it should look like a dusty mushroom and some of it like a weeping boil. Just a thought, in case you haven't already had it.

That is awesome.

But, what the hells is a twizzle stick?!

Thanks guys,
@oadie: yeah, that's the plan, I will be making the darkest recesses and any smaller puddles/pockets different colours,depths and levels of gloss as well as general colourisation and freehanding veins, mottleing etc.
I'll be using a combination of techniques from varnish to mixing paints and inks with wet effects glues and resins. Semi opaque white looks good at the moment.
This is all going to take somewhat longer so updates will be spaced a bit further apart than they have been.
Thanks again!


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@ Fifty: It's a tentacle shaped cocktail stirrer! Beats the hell out of a flamingo or palm tree imo!

O my freaking god! I was really sceptical when I saw the first pictures, but after seeying your work now I just veel embarresed beeing sceptical!

Great great work! You gotta make an entire board like that!

Wow... it almost makes me want to go out and pick up some stuff to copy except I'll make an abortion out of it all.

How has the effects come along? You've got to be close to having it finished??

This stuff is awesome man! Can my Eldar come play on the table! I promise I'll let you drop a guardian or two into the digesting pools!

eeeeew

Rise from the dead! I dunno, it is shy of 2 months so hopefully this isn't too much necrothreadia especially with the nid dex on the horizon.

I just wanted to say that I think this looks great and I will likely steal some of it for daemon world terrain.

Did you happen to get your inspiration from a Miniwargaming video? You can get simmilar effects by putting drinking straws on a flame, anyway nice work!

Nice looking scenery!!!! loving it

Somnicide wrote:Rise from the dead! I dunno, it is shy of 2 months so hopefully this isn't too much necrothreadia especially with the nid dex on the horizon.
I just wanted to say that I think this looks great and I will likely steal some of it for daemon world terrain.

I don't mind you digging this back up one bit! I'm kinda proud of how it turned out and it does seem fairly relevant at the moment so don't mind showing it off!
I'm glad you like it.

Malo wrote:Did you happen to get your inspiration from a Miniwargaming video? You can get simmilar effects by putting drinking straws on a flame, anyway nice work.

Sorry, never seen it. I'd be interested in a link if you do have it. Always good to see what others are up to.
EDIT: Found it but they must have been inspired by me, check the dates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyu4EZOKR8

colonnello wrote:Nice looking scenery!!!! loving it

Cheers.

Outstanding - much better than my sprayfoam stuff! Makes me want to go back and take another crack at it.

This looks awesome can't wait to see it all done

beware the tyranid Sarlacc nicely made. I was thinking along the same lines for my own tryranid scenery, where did you get the Tenticles from cause they make a nice addition

Rise from the dead!!!!!
So firstly apologies if you've already seen these but i've done a load more and this seemed like the best place to put them................sorry.

Here's my newest project, i've been working on a load more of this stuff both for Apocalypse and a campaign that i've been working on.
Link to the campaign is here... http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/537842.page
The new additions are a few small city pieces that should work with my Cities of Death stuff to produce an pretty decent infested imperial city table.
Also new are some of the larger pieces for Apocalypse that we should soon get a game of (i'm going to need somewhere to hide the Hierophant and Hierodules ) and some more of the standard bits and pieces for some variation.
Here's a few lnks to our earlier works.................
Battrep http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/444934.page
Battrep http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/378280.page
Randy Mcstabs's Blog http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/330376.page

Anyway. onto the pics. Enjoy.

Oh, yeah, and a pic of my new Tervigon too.

These look great, it's the best Nid terrain I've seen and you've tons of it now, enough for Apoc for defs. Mangroves are a great idea and very effective.

Cheers man, I think I saw something like the mangroves in a corner of a codex tyranid pic back in the day. I had no idea how i'd make them though?
I've been spending a little more time in petshops lately due to a certain four legged hellbeast (Who is 1 year old today, Happy Birthday Grace!) and saw some on a sale shelf.
Snapped them up and the rest is history.
They definately add a little more, much needed, height to the table which is kinda handy given the big toys coming out and with these pesky flyers everywhere.
Glad you like them.