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I was slowly going stir-crazy insane painting my never ending hordes of IG, so decided to grab something different to paint on Saturday morning.. I ended up with the awesome carnifex plastic kit, and decided to try to finish it to a reasonable level in a weekend.
A really aggressive, dynamic look is what I wanted, and decided it had to have talons, so took my first foray into the world of greenstuff, chopping the upper arms from some I wasn't using and grafting them on to the talon arms to make a more poseable, aggressive, triple jointed look.
I also greenstuffed (Is that even a word??) two carapaces together for a solidly built look, and a curving spike on the carapace top, then stuck as many spikes on it as I could without it looking silly! I don't think it turned out too bad. I tried to paint the hard parts of the figure look like bone, and deliberately painted the head a darker colour to contrast with the sticky, glossy tongue. Apologies for the poor camera shots (as usual)


Anyway, I just finished it, hurrah! \0/











Oh, the base is made from painted pistachio shells by the way, because..... um.... well just because

He's awesome.
Really well done!

Good idea using the shells for the base!
I'm glad to not be the only one who is using food for his work:

http://img51.imageshack.us/i/pict0023pe.jpg/

His antenna is actually a noodle...

It looks like a giant ball of cool and painful.

That looks so so so much more intimidating than the stubby vanilla carnifex. Great job!

Wow,I would hate to be the one fights him.

Good paint job over the weekend. He looks good.

I like it a lot well done man also the shells look like old pieces of carapace thumbs up dude

my grand childern are in awe - i don't have them yet

That is really nicely painted, I love this.

Oh hell. That's the Carnifex as I always saw it in 2nd edition. Huge and fething terrifying. The scariest thing in the game!