Hissy the Hive Tyrants Horrible Hive (updated 29/4/2024)

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**Ratius**

The tournament continues tonight Hissy but youre not playing.

Who isss?

Orks VS Eldar *cough* top of the table clash *cough*

Hissy had wordsss with Hive lassst night.

Oh and?

Hissy switch army around to include 2 Sister Flyrants + Hissy, podsss with Carnifexes, lots of gribblies and more Shrikes.

You cant change the army in the middle of the tournament Hissy! Beside we dont own any pods yet.

Hissy use scenery as podsss.

No Hissy, that is not fair on the other armies.

Fair? What isss fair?

Well its sort of like being nice, being balanced with the other armies, you know giving everyone an equal chance.

Hissy not underssstand.

Hmmm. Well, you cant change your army and thats that.

Hissy hate you. Hissysss team falling behind in the league.

Well its a double round tourney so you can eanr more points when you replay the other armies.

Hissy better (Hissy fiddle scoresss when Ratius sleepsss)

Anyway heres the last two pics of Stompy before he gets a final finish. Hes still eating Dark Angels.....

Yummy

**LeCacty**

ETA on stompy's arrival? He looks so good....

**War Kitten**

Stompy is looking great, can't wait to see how he looks when he's done.

**EyeamRai**

Love this blog!

**Ratius**

Thanks as always for the support guys.

ETA on Stompy is next Thursday. I'll collect him likely that weekend and see how I can base him up.
Bear was on the drink last night so got nada done

What?

**LeCacty**

Wait, so you DONT keep Bear locked in a basement, nourished only with painty water and empty sprues, painting eternally? I'm calling heresy.

**Trondheim**

I support the notion of imprisoning Bear! He should slave away for the hive mind! Unless he wants to be flogged

**LeCacty**

Trondheim wrote:
I support the notion of imprisoning Bear! He should slave away for the hive mind! Unless he wants to be flogged

It puts the paint on the model!

**Ratius**

Hahaha guys

Bear moves fast when he wants to though.

Hissy creating holding chambersss for Bear incassse he dosent finish on time.

Comfortable place Hissy?

Hissy put Sistersss in there too.

Poor Bear :(
Nothing to report today Im afraid Hissy. We still have 2 Gargoyles to finish off. After that, its either another scenery kit bash or I break out the credit card again.

Credit Card.

Easy for you to say. What should we get so?

Podsss.

Yes they've been on the watch list for a while. But are we sure we'll use them?

Hissy load them up with goodiesss.

Im sure you will. I suppose with our lists of late being reserve stlye they might work well. Plus it would allow us to get Carnis in quicker and maybe even a Tyrannofex.

Yesss, good ideasss.

Man I thought this blog was coming to a close.....

Shut up Ratiussss.

**LeCacty**

O noes! Blog? ENDING!?!?!

**Theophony**

There's space for YOU in a holding chamber too Ratius if you think the blogs going to end.

Her Majesty has many loyal followers

**Ratius**

Hi Hissy. Look what I found under the bed this morning.

Spore Minesss?

Thankfully not, no. I found these guys.

What are they Ratiusss?

You didnt spawn them?

Hissy not recall.

Well what do you think they are?

Hmmm, armored with gunssss. Old Warriorsss?

Nope.

Old Carnifexes?

Nope.

Hissy give up.

They are old metal Hive Guard Hissy.

Hissy pretty sssure Hive hasss never used thessse even with proxy.

I'd agree with that Hissy.

Why they not assembled for Hive?

Because they are closes to being a nightmare to do.

Hissy care not. Get glue and get working Ratiusss.

Yes oh Hive Queen.

**LeCacty**

"Old metal Hive Guard" These guys are considered old now? *checks GW* THERES A NEW KIT? Thanks Ratius, I feel old. Cant wait to see these OLD guys painted up. Definitely my favorite Tyranid model and really favorite unit. Blind bugs FTW!

**Ratius**

An absolute nightmare to assemle though LC.
I tried a few years back and gave up and Im useless at pinning - their arms and guns are sooo weighty.
I'll give it another pop this week if I get time however.
They are pretty cool models.

**LeCacty**

Really? I never had any problems. Huh.

**War Kitten**

I tried to assemble those little buggers once. Absolute nightmare...

**LeCacty**

War Kitten wrote:
I tried to assemble those little buggers once. Absolute nightmare...

Heh... BUGgers...

**Ratius**

Yo Hissy.

Yo Ratiusss.

How goes it in the Hive?

Good Ratiusss, what is update for today?

Straight to the point huh? I see.
Well we got these guys done.

And?

Well thats was it really.

Two Gargoyles? Issss that supposed to be funny?

Eeeek. Eh no, its all we really had left Hissy. But look how many we have now!

Hmmmm. And what is that grey thing in the background. Hissy ssssure it is not part of Hive.

Eeeek. Its, erm, well.

DO NOT LIE TO HIVE QUEEN HISSY.

Ok, ok its an Imperial Guard Leman Russ battle tank.

What is it doing on workbench?

Well I had a quiet Sunday and assembled it.

Disssgraceful.

But wait, we are waiting on two of these to arrive Hissy!
Thats god news isnt it?

Hmmm, Hissy suppossse that is acceptable.

(phew). They are due to arrive tomorrow or Friday Hissy. Im wondering if we should do them up as Tyranocytes or Sporocysts.

Hissy thought idea was to start getting more Podssss.

Well thats true Hissy but we can easily proxy the Sporos as pods and that allows us to make some nasty Mucaloids too.

Hmmmm. Hissy decide in next few daysss and let Ratiusss know.

Yes oh High Queen, thy word is my Bidding.....

**LeCacty**

What aboot the Hive Guard? Maybe a maleceptor and a toxicrene too

**Ratius**

I see you have been going through my mail Hissy.

Hehehehe, look what Hissy found.

You really should ask me first Hissy.

Shut up Ratiusss. Hissy decide we should conssstruct klts as Sporos and make Mucaloids and mini spores too.

Ok, I think thats a good idea but maybe we should ask the readers what makes what?

Good idea, Readersss usually smarter than you.

So guys a few questions about the kit:
1. If we make tyrannocytes, can we also make the smaller spores and a mucaloid? Or are mucaloid parts used in the Tyrannocyte?
2. If we make Sporocysts are there any left over parts we can kitbash into more scenery etc?
3. How big is the Sporocyst compared to the Tyrannocyte and vice versa, in terms of height and width?

4. Will kits help Hissy Hive to win more games and dominate Galaxy quicker?

Thats hardly a valid question Hissy!

**evildrcheese**

I can't help answer you questions as I'm just a budding Tyranid player myself, so I'll leave that to the "pros".

Just wanted to say I've really like the style of tour blog and good work on expanding the Hive Mind.

Play nice now both of you.

D

**Ratius**

Thanks evil, welcome to the blog

**Ratius**

Ratiusss?

Yes Hissy?

Hissy has a present for you.

Oh goody more spore mines

No Ratiusss, something nice.

(Right where is the catch here?)

Uhm ok.

Hissy and the Hive say:
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ON DAKKA!

Oh my, well thanks so much you guys, thats a lovely thought!!! I hadnt realised its been 6 years to the day since we joined up!

Now, how isss Hive doing?

Back to business eh, oh Hive Queen? Well we played a game last week that you can read up on here - although you were actually playing so if you dont remember, you need to lay off that Ork fungus again.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/666274.page

Did Hissy win Ratiusss?

You'll have to go and read it Hissy!

Well, how did Hissy do?

Not bad actually Hissy, you earned two points for the Hive!

Good for Hissy, Hissy go read resssults to Hive now.....

(Ssssh everyone She might not like it.....)

**Mad..**

Ratius wrote:

So guys a few questions about the kit:
1. If we make tyrannocytes, can we also make the smaller spores and a mucaloid? Or are mucaloid parts used in the Tyrannocyte?
2. If we make Sporocysts are there any left over parts we can kitbash into more scenery etc?
3. How big is the Sporocyst compared to the Tyrannocyte and vice versa, in terms of height and width?

I have one of these kits and have worked out what you can do with them pretty much:

1. If you make tyrannocytes, you still get spore mines, in terms of the mucolid you would only have the "head" left as the tentacles are used up on the tyrannocyte. You could always make some tentacles if you can.
2. If you make a sporocyst, you get the smaller spore mines, and can make a mucolid as well, there will be some bits left over that you could use for scenery but I'm pretty sure they will be fleshy bits and bio cannons.
3. Not entirely sure on actual measurements, but the width of both is similar, the tyrannocyte is a lot taller than the sporocyst though. The tyrannocyte is taller than a Imperial knight and a marine drop pod.

Personally I have one kit at the moment which I will build as a tyrannocyte, but if I had two kits I'd build one of each and get a tyrannocyte, a sporocyst, a mucolid and a bunch of normal spore mines and extra bits

Hope this helps!

**Ratius**

Thanks Mad, me being me with the usual abuse from Hissy decided on a strange hybrid which you'll see below.....

*Dons Terminator armor and prepares for the worst*

Hi Hissy and the Hive and Happy New Year!

Go to hell Ratiussss.

(and that my friends is about as consistent as you can get).

How are things Hissy?!

Hissy is packing up Hive to leave for another Galaxy.

Why Hissy?!

Why Ratiusss think?

Errrr lack of updates?

Oh so sssmart Ratius.

Sorry about that Hissy. I lost a bit of motivation before Xmas and let things slide but we're back now!

Do you think Hissy Hive give up when faced with challengesss?

Probably not.....

So excusesss are not good. Show update before Hissy render you back to spawning poolsss.

Right away oh High Queen!

So this morning I delved into the first of my tyrannocyte kits and took a bash at it.

Heres the gang overseeing proceedings with the usual jeers and abuse.

I ultimately decided that I wanted to make the pods but get mucaloids out of the kit too.

As a result I left off the supporting tentacles and managed to get the pod to balance sideways.....

It basically supports itself on two of the side tentacles and I used some glue reinforced bluetac to get more contact points with the base.

Mildly impresssive initiative Ratiusss.....

Wow, thanks!

Heres an unwilling subject for a size comparison

The kit was ok to build, took about 1.5 hours. The astute of you will note however the missing vents on the air brakes, they were obnoxious to get together and in place so I gave up.

Lazy, lazy Ratiusss.

So thats the first of the pods done. I'll try and get the second one done tomorrow and then paint them up during the week.

Stompy?

Ah yes old Stompy, I just havent had a chance to collect him yet Hissy but will next week.

Hisssssssssss!

**Nevelon**

Looks great! I like the off kilter angle. Makes it look like it’s just about to impact.

That swooping hawk better get out of there!

**evildrcheese**

Yaah having the pod on an angle makes for a really dynamic look great work.

EDC

**Sinful Hero**

Glad to see you back to updating Ratius!

**Mad..**

Welcome back Ratius and Hissy, hope you had a nice break

I like what you have done with you pod, I've seen something similar recently and really like the dynamic look it gives the model, like it is just about to land, or just landed.

I'm about to build one myself in the near future so I might have a play with the look and see if I can do something similar.

**Ratius**

Thanks all, its great to be back and chatting to you again

Hissy saysss thanksss too.

What did you just say Hissy?

Nothing Ratiusss, get on with it.

Well Hissy from zero to hero huh?

Zero to airlock Ratiusss if progress dosent continue this week.

Well, oh High Queen, I got everything undercoated today and will try a bit of painting tonight, otherwise we'll chip away this week and aim for a weekend finish. Hows that for efficency?

Adequate.

I decided to do the second pod as the first as I wanted a second mucaloid and the off angle thing grew on me. They are lookiing well undercoated and I'll keep the same scheme as the rest of the army with the red/black feathering and wash. Im not sure whether to leave the body of the pods white with only minor color on the veins and sac bulges or to wash the whole body aka this guy.

What do you guys think?

The extra bits left over also allowed me to make two cool little objective markers that you can see in the first picture - the little pyramid things.

Hissy want to use pods in game Ratiusss.

Yes definitely Hissy, what should we put in them?

30 dev gaunts Ratiusss for big firepower.

Good idea Hissy or what about two Carnifexes coming in?

Also good idea. Possibilities for smassshing filthy enemiesss is exciting.

Very!

How is the Hive in general Hissy?

Good Ratiusss.

And I forgot to tell you but our round robin touramanet finished at xmas.

Resssults for Hive?

You'll have to wait and see.....

Ratiussssssssssssssssssssss!