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Hello Dakka Dakka Pew Pew Bang Boom friends.

A few days ago I found some tree seed pod shells on the street and decided they would make a nice creepy terrain piece. The spiky shells work really well as a chaossy/tyranidy thing, but to keep them as they are would be boring. I decided to add tentacles and make the whole thing slimy and disgusting. Yay!
The rocky base is made out of pieces of tree bark which I cooked in the oven for a while to dry them out. The tentacles are metal wire with yellow-grey milliput rolled around them and the giant thing in the centre is just a blob of milliput. The pod shells speak for themselves, all I did was position and paint them.

Front view


Back view


From above


Model view


And one for scale



Please let me know what you think.
Any comments and criticism is very much appreciated.

Yum!

just needs some tau school girls

pretty swish idea. might try it myself ^^

Nice.

Looks just like a mycetic spore opened.

How did you get that slime effect on the inside, is it some kind of resin? Or something a bit less professional?

That looks gross. It's perfect!

What'd you make the...let's call it "gloop," in the middle out of? PVA?

Err, I guess zilegil already asked that.

Thanks for compliments. <3
The ewwy white stuff in the middle is really simple... PVA glue mixed with a tiny bit of white paint and water, and glossy varnished for shiny slimy effects. The thready bits are a cheap transparent hobby glue painted white after drying.

won't it rot over time?

I hope not. There is a lot of paint and I varnished the entire thing so it should be safe. If it does decide to rot anyway it might just make it all seem even more eww.

Well, I once made a base out of dried chicken liver dog treats. Just covered it with lots of white glue and varnish, and it didn't look like anything had been rotting after 3 years, so hopefully you should be fine.

3 years? Nice.

And I got her to bake some of the components first, for added not-going-white-and-fluffy-ness...

Also, the Tau schoolgirls idea gave me shivers :( my poor Tau XD haven't these 'nids done enough to them?


Great piece though if a bit... disturbing

Awesome bit of terrain! I don't quite think it would be large enough to be a Mycetic Spore Pod though.

For those who want to know, the shell/seed pod looks to be a horse chestnut shell (conker shell for you gents across the pond).

I had no idea what the English name for it was, we call it a kastanje here.

I got the wrong idea when I saw the top view....but thats jusst me

I'm afraid to ask what ideas you got...

"They were like giant...seed pods!" I think it's quality

Tau are only good for eating anyway

Awww, I think Tau are cute. But they do always beat me when I play against them... :(
Maybe you are right, they should be eaten. For the Greater Good and all that.