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A little preview of things to come...the base for my army's centerpiece...







The base was from Back 2 Base-ix, and the "Newt" model is from Hasslfree. The girl isn't glued to the base yet, as I want to paint her before I glue her on. The other stuff for the centerpiece has been ordered, and now...we wait...

Can't wait to see the end result!

Yeah! This'll be great!

Ah, yes, the Tyrant's base.

Hey darth bob, are planning to make a queen?

Munch Munch! wrote:Hey darth bob, are planning to make a queen?

That's the plan with the Tyrant, yes. I ordered the Forge World hive tyrant since she has the crest.

Sweet. Im now even more excited. Taking a cool model and making cooler.

Nice army!


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Sry doubble post

After recieving my Forge World Hive Tyrant, I began work on her. I domed over the eyes, and fixed a small resin bubble in the tail and the thin-ness of the resin on the inside of the crest (the only miscasts in the whole kit; I was quite pleased). I plan to save the wings for a later project involving a Harpy, since wings aren't overly useful in this codex.




I ordered these boneswords from Paulson games. They're very nice and cheap. Since I'll be magnetizing the Hive Tyrant, I plan to make it possible to make her a Swarmlord as well.




You know how the Codex says that the presence of Tyranids causes Psykers to go insane. Well that's immediately what I thought when I saw this model, so I ordered one, and with some work to make him look more loyalist, I plan to put him on the base of a Psyker-Nid. Probably the Doom.



I also bought a Space Hulk Broodlord...I'm going to remount him on a 40mm base.

Seeing that rogue psyker in this particular thread just made me have a 'light bulb' moment. With a little bit of greenstuff work you could sculpt a face hugger onto it and have it look as if he's trying to wrestle it off before he passes out! Be great if you ever got round to putting the parasite of mortrex into your army list.

Excited to see the final result!

Good show so far, I love it; great justice to the films while still staying warhammer-ish. On a sidenote, have you ever played the AVP game? Now the two AVP movies are somewhat suckish but the game has excellant fluff & gameplay for all 3 races; the Alien fluff is specifically awesome (I love Six). I recomend checking it out, or at least the wikia page for the story on Six.

Excellent. I can't wait to see the finished product.

Can those bases be shipped to Australia Just wondering.


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Oh and please a picture of all of it sofar

Mecharius wrote:Good show so far, I love it; great justice to the films while still staying warhammer-ish. On a sidenote, have you ever played the AVP game? Now the two AVP movies are somewhat suckish but the game has excellant fluff & gameplay for all 3 races; the Alien fluff is specifically awesome (I love Six). I recomend checking it out, or at least the wikia page for the story on Six.

Indeed, I have played the new AvP game. I have it for the PS3. While I was not terribly impressed with it, I will admit is was a pretty fun game. Much better than the movies.
In case you didn't know, the AvP game that was just released was not the first. There was also Aliens vs. Predator (1999) and Aliens vs. Predator 2 (2001) that were released for the PC. The second one is my favorite video game, and is an excellent FPS. The new game sucks in comparison; you should really check them out. I think that Six was a cool enough character that she deserves an homage in my army...I'll probably give one of the Tyranids a "6" on their head.

-=Scar=- wrote:Can those bases be shipped to Australia Just wondering.


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Oh and please a picture of all of it sofar

I believe Back 2 Base-ix is based out of Australia, so I would say that would be a resounding yes.

I'll post a group shot when I have the Hive Queen somewhat assembled.

Darth Bob wrote:Indeed, I have played the new AvP game. I have it for the PS3. While I was not terribly impressed with it, I will admit is was a pretty fun game. Much better than the movies. In case you didn't know, the AvP game that was just released was not the first. There was also Aliens vs. Predator (1999) and Aliens vs. Predator 2 (2001) that were released for the PC. The second one is my favorite video game, and is an excellent FPS. The new game sucks in comparison; you should really check them out. I think that Six was a cool enough character that she deserves an homage in my army...I'll probably give one of the Tyranids a "6" on their head.

Can't wait to see your model of Six, as I said I fell in love with her character so expect me to be highly critical. I'll definetly have to check out the original avp games, if they're as good as you say they are they should be awesome. Also, on the topic of Aliens, or in this case reallllllllllllllly smart Aliens (like 6), I was wondering if you were going to make a Grid model too (link: http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Grid).

Well, apparently Brickshelf has a policy of no non-lego items being put up on their site (damn lego nerds). So I'll have to re-upload all the photos in this thread to another photo hosting site. Oh, joy.

Well at least your still working on it! And yes the first AvP game was very fun but I ever played the second. I've heard a lot of good things.

Darth Bob wrote:Well, apparently Brickshelf has a policy of no non-lego items being put up on their site (damn lego nerds). So I'll have to re-upload all the photos in this thread to another photo hosting site. Oh, joy.

I'd try photobucket, it's pretty easy to work with.

Or use the Dakka gallery

Alright, all photos have been fixed. Everyone enjoy .

they mostly come out at night...........mostly

Whoooooo, eye candy . Very, very nice work, and a great theme. How is the broodlord and the 2nd ed tyrant model coming?

RiTides wrote:Whoooooo, eye candy . Very, very nice work, and a great theme. How is the broodlord and the 2nd ed tyrant model coming?

Well the first broodlord mentioned in this thread hasn't been started yet, and the Prime is still in the state he was in previous pictures...since I haven't figured out what to do with those arms of his.

The Space Hulk Broodlord is going to have this done to him (don't mean to be a copycat, but likely with the exact same base) :

Nice work Darth Bob! i have been waiting for someone to do this ever since you joined the hobby, i liked the alien franchise along with the predator one. Best of luck.

This is shaping up to be great. Will be keenly watching the army form!

This is probably asking too much... But maybe you could sculpt an inner mouth for the Hive Tyrant?

Amazing job. I love Alien. The first movies, of course.

I usually don't like tyranids but your work is making me change my idea.

Darth Bob wrote:Well, apparently Brickshelf has a policy of no non-lego items being put up on their site (damn lego nerds). So I'll have to re-upload all the photos in this thread to another photo hosting site. Oh, joy.

Nobody expects the Lego Inquisition!

Necroman wrote:This is probably asking too much... But maybe you could sculpt an inner mouth for the Hive Tyrant?

Nope, that's not too much to ask at all. In fact, I was actually thrinking about doing that in the first place. Great minds think alike I suppose .

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Nobody expects the Lego Inquisition!

I sure as hell didn't.


Anyways, small update. I am a very lucky man, I stumbled upon a lot of the Space Hulk Genestealers (all 22x + the Broodlord) on eBay for only $45. They're also still on sprue. I love the dynamic poses of those stealers, and I missed out on Space Hulk when it came out. I'm going to Xenomorphify (yes I made up a word) all of them. I'm especially excited for the floor bursting variant; very Alien-esque.