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Today's project - winged Hive Tyrant of hive fleet Inferno lol







This is only my 6th Nid and by far the biggest, could be better but I think it worked out quite well, was testing a few new techniques on it which taught me some things :-)

Looking good, I like the detail you got into the wings. For your 6th Nid its very impressive.

Denras wrote:
Looking good, I like the detail you got into the wings. For your 6th Nid its very impressive.

Cheers, thats encouraging, the other 5 nids have just been termagaunts :-)
The wings went sort of to plan and also sort of not lol, its the largest area I've ever used a wash on, and suffered a bit from tide marks / bit of pooling, but think I patched it up OK when its seen for real.

My conversion on the TL Devourers is a bit dodgy I think but it does the job and at least it alters them from normal devourers... Plus could palm them off as TL Deathspitters maybe lol

That is an impressive looking beast!

 Xiorell wrote:

Denras wrote:
Looking good, I like the detail you got into the wings. For your 6th Nid its very impressive.

Cheers, thats encouraging, the other 5 nids have just been termagaunts :-)
The wings went sort of to plan and also sort of not lol, its the largest area I've ever used a wash on, and suffered a bit from tide marks / bit of pooling, but think I patched it up OK when its seen for real.

My conversion on the TL Devourers is a bit dodgy I think but it does the job and at least it alters them from normal devourers... Plus could palm them off as TL Deathspitters maybe lol

I actually really like the way those converted devourers look. I'd run them on my flyrant.

Really appreciate the kind comments guys, I wasn't sure how it'd go down... It's similar to Hive Fleet Kraken and some people don't like the nail varnish/'ard-cote finish and the weapon conversions being my first attempt at such a thing, but its very encouraging and reassures me in honing the scheme further.
At least I can paint swarms of gaunts fast with this scheme too lol

I've been varnishing my nids, love the candy shell look on them and its protects the paint.

Love the dakka conversion! Nice approach!