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Gathering Storm wrote:Lovely big feeder tentecales ensnaring a Space Smurf...

Heh. This army is going to be like 20% victims, 80% Tyranids.

Interesting thought... Since the planet they're on is an aquatic world, wouldn't anyone fighting them have to fight them underwater? Are there human colonies underwater, ala Bioshock? Or is it an uninhabited world humanwise? (I imagine if it's the latter, the Imperium would rather just virus bomb it to all hell than go down and fight to defend it)

I'm picturing undersea domes, as well as tiny portions of land (enough that the couple of beach scenes I'm planning make sense ).
Space Marines can hold their breath for like a week and a half, Imperial Guard would be either natives or given the proper gear to handle the environment, Necrons and Demons wouldn't care, and Eldar and Tau undoubtedly have the tech to handle something like that.
Though I picture their primary theoretical opponent to be basic humans/guardsmen native to the planet.

Hai guys!




First draft, so to speak.
Unpainted thus far, of course.
I plan on trying to shave down the ends of his face tendrils so they taper to points.
The shell is held on with sticky-tack for now.
I'm thinking of cutting his claws and repositioning on his other hand.
Want to add webbing between his fingers.
Unsure whether to remove his tail or not.
And obviously my GS-fu needs a lot of work.

Opinions? Ideas? Criticisms? Anything?


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And the last of the items I needed for the Zoanthropes came in the mail today, so once I reconsititute some of my paint (GW's pots are so horrible) I should be able to get some of those up and created (the way they're constructed, some of it will need to be painted before being put together; you'll see what I mean).

No comments on this one?

More to come soon, but need to work on it...

Not sold on the shell as is. Think it may look better if you chop a bit more of the back off so it sits a little lower, looks a little 'perched' at the moment. Possibly a shell with a slightly wider opening, but that may be a bit too big a shell then.


Edit: Always wanted to make some kind of underwater scene using the old titan crew figures, they seemed to have a bit of that deep sea diver look going for them.

Very origional, keep it up!

You should try and make Garry from SpongeBob. *Spore mine* Cough Cough.

Gary mines would be very amusing

I love the originality here! Keep it up!

monkeytroll wrote:Not sold on the shell as is. Think it may look better if you chop a bit more of the back off so it sits a little lower, looks a little 'perched' at the moment. Possibly a shell with a slightly wider opening, but that may be a bit too big a shell then.

It's sitting a bit higher on him than it will once finished, due to the sticky-tack, but not by much. I'm going to try to shave it down a bit more. The problem is the opening isn't, well, much of an opening. Tried some bigger ones, but they looked a bit ridiculous. Maybe I'll try looking for a good middleground.


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I'm so naming my first Tyrannofex Gary.

And thanks again, all, for the feedback. Really looking for a lot of opinions on this stuff, as I'm not really sure what looks good and what could use work, as well as advice from those more experienced with modeling.


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monkeytroll wrote:Always wanted to make some kind of underwater scene using the old titan crew figures, they seemed to have a bit of that deep sea diver look going for them.

Not familiar with these...

Didn't I see these guys in Coilfang Reservoir from WoW?

Looking good, I especially like the eye-stalks!

vent wrote:Didn't I see these guys in Coilfang Reservoir from WoW?

Looking good, I especially like the eye-stalks!

Thank you.

...and that's actually a pretty good idea. Maybe I'll model my Raveners something like that...

Are those face tentacles made of pasta?

I was wondering that too ph34r. If so, interesting idea.

ph34r wrote:Are those face tentacles made of pasta?

Heh. No. A bit too brittle.
They're rubber(ish), but at that length they don't really hang/swing much.

What if you put some heat to them? Might help shape them more.

tony_nids_10 wrote:What if you put some heat to them? Might help shape them more.

I might try it, but they're pretty flexible as-is. It's just that when they're that short, they don't have the weight to curve.

I see. Going longer on them might make them look a little off... Hmmm What about some greenstuff?

tony_nids_10 wrote:I see. Going longer on them might make them look a little off... Hmmm What about some greenstuff?

May give it a try. Still in the experimentation stage on this one.
Honestly my best bet is probably cannibalizing a box of the new ones for the Ymgarl 'stealer faces, but I like the custom touch.

I really think the custom look will fit way better with what you are doing! You've come up with a very cool idea and it is bound to have a bump or two in the road. I am absolutely going to keep an eye on this thread!

you should really put some webbing/fins type stuff on the arms and legs with greenstuff... It's to help them swim faster, naturally.

Well, that Gene-crab looks pretty awesome.

MasterDRD wrote:you should really put some webbing/fins type stuff on the arms and legs with greenstuff... It's to help them swim faster, naturally.

Ooh, good idea. Thinking Spider-Man-esque armpit webbing, in addition to the finger-webbing I had planned.

I love that gene stealer with the shell on its back. That is a really great idea. That particular shell i believe is just a wee bit too short for the genestealer. otherwiseits exactly the right shape. I really hope the base coat sticks to it properly for you, it likely will I really dont know, just a concern that poped into my head while looking at it.

Jay-Man McDougall wrote:I love that gene stealer with the shell on its back. That is a really great idea. That particular shell i believe is just a wee bit too short for the genestealer. otherwiseits exactly the right shape. I really hope the base coat sticks to it properly for you, it likely will I really dont know, just a concern that poped into my head while looking at it.

Yeah, I need to find a shell a bit bigger, but not -too- big.
And I'm not sure I'll basecoat the shell. I may just drybrush it with the general colors of the 'stealer (well, the colors I intend to paint him, I mean, not that blue), so it still looks like itself, but fits better with the animal inside.

Alternate choice for the shell for the Genestealers. Unsure if it looks good. Initially I thought it was a bit big, but now the first one looks too small.
Would also probably cut off his tail to let it sit tilted a bit lower, but not sure.
So anyway.
Need lots of opinions on this.
Post away.

I'm gonna say: go with the bigger shell. It looks more like the beast is coming out if it, rather than just being a thing on it's back.
I think the smaller shell could work, but I'd make the genestealer smaller somehow (shorten/get rid of the legs, less arms). Are some of them gonna have tentacles?
The head looks great. So creepy and humorous at the same time.

I agree that most nid creatures wouldn't need to adapt too much from their basic forms, but going with the prehistoric sea creature look I nominate trilobytes and horseshoe crabs. Small ones would be perfect for ripper swarms and larger versions might be good for other nasties.

with the starfish ripper swarms i would use something else-swarms of small fishes?
its just that starfish-although ravenous, just dont seem...hungry...ferocious...niddish?

plus with the feeder tendrils on the gaunt things, i feel that it would be better that you used the standard feeder tendrils and GS'ed them a bit to make them more to your liking-rather than use the rubber stuff.

The Good Green wrote:I'm gonna say: go with the bigger shell. It looks more like the beast is coming out if it, rather than just being a thing on it's back.
I think the smaller shell could work, but I'd make the genestealer smaller somehow (shorten/get rid of the legs, less arms). Are some of them gonna have tentacles?
The head looks great. So creepy and humorous at the same time.

I may, in fact, give some of them tentacles. Not sure yet. Sooo many other things in the army are going to have tentacles. And I'm going to shave down the feeder tendrils/mouthparts to make them a little more tentacle-esque, tapering to points.


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B00M_H3ADSH07 wrote:with the starfish ripper swarms i would use something else-swarms of small fishes?
its just that starfish-although ravenous, just dont seem...hungry...ferocious...niddish?

plus with the feeder tendrils on the gaunt things, i feel that it would be better that you used the standard feeder tendrils and GS'ed them a bit to make them more to your liking-rather than use the rubber stuff.

Like I said. I had starfish, and they were an appropriate size. They're not the only ripper swarms I plan on making.

And I don't have any of the 'standard' feeder tendrils yet. Need to save some money and buy a box of the new Genestealers.