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I finally got around to taking some pictures of the finished and fully painted Tyrannofex I built early last year. Here's a work in progress shot I posted a while back and a picture of the finished model. That is followed by a picture of my new Ork Warboss Warbike conversion. More info is available at the individual image postings in my Dakkadakka Gallery at this link. Hobby questions are welcome.





And finally, I just finished this Warboss Warbiker conversion for my Ork army today. Hope to paint him soon.

Let me make sense of what I'm blabbering about. I like the bulking of the body, the work is seamless, a really masterpiece, but the rupture cannon? No, it looks pretty tacked on, and looks like it's coming out the fex's chin. Maybe it's just the angle, but it really doesn't do it for me.

That's great news because if you look at the picture in the Tyranid Codex the cannon is coming out of the monster's lower jaw and is supported pretty much like I built it. I deliberately built my conversion to be as close to the picture in the Codex Tyranids as I could get it. Thanks!

I know it is, and I'm not knocking you for it, for as I've previously stated, I think it's a lovely conversion. What I am trying to say however, is it seems to be hanging below the chest, kinda making it look like the 'fex has a metal pipe stuck on his chin, more than a bioweapon intergrated into its body.

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, that gap came up when I was getting feedback just before painting began and I also had been thinking about what to do about it. In the end I added some hoses just before painting started, but they don't show in the work-in-progress photo. If you look carefully in the photo of the finished project, though it's hard to see, there are hoses connecting the back of the gun to the chest. I decided in this one case, unlike the illustration in the book, that hoses looked better than just plugging in the gap with solid bulk. A friend suggested them while we were discussing the problem and I loved the idea. It worked out quite well I think. Thanks for the interest in the project. Seriously, that's some of the best thought out and polite feedback I've seen on a 40K forum.

My Ork army project is coming along nicely. I have posted many pics in my Gallery here on Dakkadakka. I've painted more than a Green Tide since I started on it at the beginning of last December. My Deff Dread made it onto What's New Today on the GW website today. Check out my Ork Dakkadakka Gallery for more pics. Here's a sample below:

My latest completed project is Chaos Terminators with an icon of Nurgle. Details of how these were built and painted are at the source photo here in my Gallery.