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4 days already?! Dang good thing I pre-ordered it.

That is pretty cool though! I say go for it.

BIG UPDATE! (Pun was totally intended)


Old No Eyes has come to eat your faces.






Resin base is from Secret Weapon Miniatures. Very nicely detailed rubble with broken concrete wall. Looks like he busted down said wall in an attempt to eat some Smurfs.



I pinned him to the base for both stability and easier painting. I'll put him on the base unglued, prime him, paint him, and then when he and the base are both painted, I'll glue them both together .




I absolutely love how the claws turned out. Perhaps my idea will inspire a whole other legion of other Old One Eye conversions based off it. I will be famous in the Tyranid community! Mwahahahahahahaha!

Thoughts?

Excellent! Can't wait to see it painted!

Coming along nicely

The crushing claws turned out really well. I'm glad someone else had that conversion idea (removing the extra brachia). You're sorta my unwitting guineapig Darth Bob!
Looking at yours though, I think I'll be kitbashing or sculpting beefier upper arms. The claws look even more massive with the single brachium and it's hard to imagine they could be lifted without some extra muscle in the arms and shoulders. Have you considered some external sinew as seen on the unmodified FW Crushing Claws?
Looking forward to what you turn out next.

Psst. I like your Alienid heads the best. Don't tell Necros or Navarro.

If you're looking for a potential Newt, take a look at these:

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=773
http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=762

They also do a Ripley:

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=684

Elusive71 wrote:The crushing claws turned out really well. I'm glad someone else had that conversion idea (removing the extra brachia). You're sorta my unwitting guineapig Darth Bob!
Looking at yours though, I think I'll be kitbashing or sculpting beefier upper arms. The claws look even more massive with the single brachium and it's hard to imagine they could be lifted without some extra muscle in the arms and shoulders. Have you considered some external sinew as seen on the unmodified FW Crushing Claws?
Looking forward to what you turn out next.

I considered beefing them up, but I dunno, I kinda like them this way, and I've never had a good track record with sculpting musculatures. Perhaps when my skills are developed better, I'll maybe come back and try it, but as of right now, I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out. They defenitely look like they would give him S10, and they defenitely look like they'd slow him to I1 .

Elusive71 wrote:
Psst. I like your Alienid heads the best. Don't tell Necros or Navarro.

I won't say a word . Especially since Necros was one of my inspirations. Couldn't have done it as well without him. The only difference between mine and his is that I made the Fex's head a bit less sheer than the ones on his. Not that there's anything wrong with how he does it, I just like this way a bit more.

The Dreadnote wrote:If you're looking for a potential Newt, take a look at these:

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=773
http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=762

They also do a Ripley:

http://www.hasslefreeminiatures.co.uk/pack.php?pack=684

Those were the exact models I was planning on using! They're just so awesome, I love Hasslefree miniatures. Actually, one of my big plans was to make a display base for my Alienid Queen, and have her fighting this:


Paint it yellow, and find a way to get that hasslefree Ripley model in the cockpit and I'll have a little recreation of the famous "Get away from her you B*TCH!" scene. But that's a big project for another day...but who knows .

Man, that would be awesome!

You should do up some rippers to look like facehuggers!
Can't wait to see more!

Darth Bob wrote:Aliens was the first full-length movie I ever saw as a child, and has remained my favorite ever since.

That's funny, me too. Of course, the face huggers left my 6-yo self traumatized, but it was a good time.

And hey, Alien Resurrection wasn't that bad. I mean, I totally believe Winona Ryder is a robot.

terminus wrote:
That's funny, me too. Of course, the face huggers left my 6-yo self traumatized, but it was a good time.

At first I was like

terminus wrote:
And hey, Alien Resurrection wasn't that bad.

But then I was like



Seriously, don't get me started on Resurrection...

It's a masterpiece of modern cinema!! Whachu gonna do about it!!??!

terminus wrote:It's a masterpiece of modern cinema!! Whachu gonna do about it!!??!

Well, I was contemplating on murdering the director.






It's one of those things I need to do before I die.

I'll add that to the list.

Things Darth Bob Will Do before He dies:

1:Create an alienid army
2:Murder the director of Ressurection
3:???
4: PROFIT!!!!!

*Blows the dust off thread*

Well, I've been inactive, but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. I finished up a squad of Genestealers (ready to be painted and primed). Because Genestealers are built as slotta-based models, I could not put them on the resin bases without removing the slot. That said, I knew they would be incredibly fragile when they're only glued by one foot, and would more than likely break during games and/or transport. So I got an idea...a wonderful, horrible idea! I took some carbon fibre rod, drilled into the crotch of the stealers (sorry guys ) and the base, and glued a small bit of rod into the base and affixed him on. The end result is a rather subtle, not very distracting way to make the models much sturdier. I actually tested this method on a badly casted base and an old Hormagaunt I had lying around and, after chucking it at a wall, the upper torso broken off, but everything from the rod down was still connected to the base. They aren't coming off the base any time soon. I'll be doing this to my Hormagaunts and Termagants as well, since they are also slotta-based. Anywho...here they are!








^My favorite .



In other news, I won bidding on a 2nd Edition Hive Tyrant. I ordered it with the idea of using it as a Tyranid prime. It's the perfect size, being about the size of a slightly larger warrior, and it looks awesome, and is not too overly retro!




Just a size comparison to let you know I'm not totally crazy.



Cheers.

Looking good!

Very nice. And even though the comparison implies you're not crazy, you avatar has always said the opposite.

I just saw this thread, Love it man. I am a huge fan of the Predator and Aliens series as well, you have done them justice!!! I will be checking in on this from here on out!!!!

Like their look; they somehow remind me of doom as well, though I can't quite put a name on the monster. Great work!

They look really great, and with the gloss finish on the heads they'll look brilliant!
To me it really brings out the linked mind idea as well...the fact that they don't have eyes and can't see for themselves makes you think that they are all being controlled by a larger conciousness! Great stuff!

I reckon tails on your Stealers would make those critters look extra alienish.

Ah hah, that is what they needed!

Yes, Great observation. I agree with Boss'eadbreaka

Me too! Tails would make the scene!

CommissarKhaine wrote:Like their look; they somehow remind me of doom as well, though I can't quite put a name on the monster. Great work!

Are you talking about Imps? If so, yes, Genestealers have always reminded me of Imps as well .

Imperial Monkey wrote: To me it really brings out the linked mind idea as well...the fact that they don't have eyes and can't see for themselves makes you think that they are all being controlled by a larger conciousness! Great stuff!

Never thought about that...but it does indeed make sense! Great catch there!

*Goes to add that to little book of army fluff.*

Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:I reckon tails on your Stealers would make those critters look extra alienish.

Indeed...I had actually tried that before, but the results were...less than appealing. I mean, to really make them look good, you would have to make them look like the Alien tails.
Frankly, I cannot sculpt that well, and would rather have no tail then a tail that looks crappy and un-uniform. Thank you for the idea, however, and perhaps I will try it when my skills get better. If anything, I'll try it on some test models first.

Yep, the imps - those were the ones throwing fireballs, right? As for the tails: have you considered skelly horse tails and spines? they could easily pass for an exoskeleton tail.

that's a good suggestion Khaine, Combining the neck and tails would work too, if you wanted them longer.

I'll try that out on the next batch of Stealers...that actually might work. Thanks for the idea!

Now, I've started working on my Warriors. What do the good people of the forum think a good loadout for them would be?

I was thinking either:
- BS/LW and Death Spitters w/ BS
- 2 BS and Death Spitters w/ BS
- Rending Claws and Death Spittters w/ BS

i think the stealers need longer tails, and moar longer heads, because they best suit the role for the basic xenomorph warrior

physcosamatic wrote:i think the stealers need longer tails, and moar longer heads, because they best suit the role for the basic xenomorph warrior

I'm not extending the heads because the shape of the Stealer heads would make for a wonky look (they would be really wide in the back and taper off towards the front). It would just look rather silly in my honest opinion. As for the tails; meh. Like I said, I'll play around with it, but as of right now, I think they're fine.