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I could probably scrounge something up for cheap if you want. I think I've got some IG stuff and SM stuff thats all beat to hell.

Hey RiTides... I have two old, dilapidated rhino hulls that I could send you quick... PM me if interested.

I'll go diving in my 40k bitz- I may have a vehicle hull or two as well.

Thanks for the unanimous, honest feedback guys! Already taken it onboard since I'm on snow day number two, and had chopped up bastion bits from my attempting this yesterday ready to go.

Behold!



Not as tall, but I can swap the other one over if someone takes issue with it being an inch short. Hope this works better for the pair

Have you considered standing the base up? You'd have to attach it to a heavy block to keep from tipping over, but them model the block to look like a fortification wall this thing just burst through. The mouth would be angled down towards the ground, but if set up high enough it could look like its about to burrow down or just swallow a defender.

20 second quick draw. I'm not an artist

Well, that'd be sweet but a lot of work! The bastion base looks pretty sweet here now that I've cleaned it up (filed the gaps visible in the quick pic above), and avoids the "clone wars" look. It is V-Day so I'm going to finish the Carnifex I was supposed to do this morning, and probably call assembly done... gotta get started painting

I think those'll do fine Ri Tides. Get the tops camouflaged with snow and maybe some extra plasticard pieces to represent torn roof sections and you'll be fine.

Looking really good

Wow, this is really cool. One of the first Nid armies I've seen that really excited me.

Looking forward to seeing it at Adepticon for sure.

OMF!! I love me a Counts As project, so I guess Happy Valentines to me?? What a project to stumble upon, stupendous stuff already RT

And I suppose this answers the question of what you were going to do with all those TF gribbles

- Salvage

Quick pic of everything assembled! I may add a little debris to bases here and there to tie in the Mawloc bases (already did to the Tervigon base) although ground will be slate and snow.



Gits- Thanks, I think it will work! Not something I'd planned, but improv time

Orlando- Thanks!

Polonius- Looking forward to seeing you at AdeptiCon as well

Salvage- Thought the gribblies would be to your liking . Happy Vday indeed!

Thanks for the comments guys, it is motivation for me for sure . Now off to the Vday activities my wife patiently delayed while I finished this. Next update will be the test paint schemes on the grubs early next week (as I'm visiting my parents this weekend).

I say again, neat looking army. The aesthetic is great (far more gribbly than actual nids if you ask me).

Nice! Those bases work much, much better now they're not identical.

Nice work - looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

Look sick man!

I am also going to use the Dredmaw as a Mawloc instead of the standard model. The Dread looks like it can absolutely swallow a large blast template worth of models!

Can you let me know, does the Maw come attached to the base? or is it possible to remove the base from the model? Just thinking of alternate modelling possibilities for the height difference.

Test model is painted! I actually painted several, but this is the one that I took to completion for the scheme I'm going to do. Pics, and then a few thoughts / questions afterwards:





Questions:

-I had trouble finding a "place to go" for the bone color. I'm using Vallejo Game Colors, so will just name approximations, but I started with Bone, applied a Devlan Mud wash to the whole model, then highlighted with Bone and a very light drybrush of a pale Flesh color. I guess I could paint a darker color before the Devlan Mud wash, but the wash is so dark that I don't think I should. I'm reasonably happy with it, but the head was the hardest- I had to drybrush back on the Bone color, followed by a bit of the Flesh... seemed like there would be another way to do it.

-For the snow, Future Floor Polish can't be used as the actual adhesive, right? You use it to get wetter looking snow, but still need PVA or Water Effects to use as the adhesive?

Hope you guys like it, I'm pretty thrilled with it... the question is if I can get them all to that standard. And, of course, the bone question, which seemed like more trouble than it was worth / harder than it should have been to get the right look.

Really nice looking results - very impressive!

Now - fire up that Assembly Line!

I dig the scheme, as well as the execution I am disturbingly reminded of gyoza though, which probably has more to do with needing to go make some breakfast than anything

Luck with powering through the rest of the gribbles!

- Salvage

Very creepy bug-thing. Should do the job nicely.

Alph- Firing it up!

Salvage- I had to google "gyoza", now I'm hungry

Paradigm- Thanks!

If anyone has thoughts on the bone color process they prefer to use, let me know... I'm guessing most folks start with a darker color than I did, but the Devlan Mud kind of does that so I may just keep the process.

Also, I think I answered my own snow question from above- these are my two snow resources, and in the second Redfinger says he actually uses the Future Floor Polish as the adhesive. I may use a mix of Water Effects and Future Floor Polish, since the Water Effects is a lot thicker.

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2010/01/details-8-ways-to-base-with-snow.html
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/573710.page

My only qualm is about the black base. Looks very at-odds with the snow.

Well, I actually painted the lip black so I could paint it another color. Would you suggest something else, like brown?

My process on the base is:

-Paint entire base (black in the above)
-Apply PVA and slate, with more PVA on top
-Drybrush slate grey and then wash with Badab Black
-Apply snow

I would definitely be open to another color if black didn't look good on the base, however I guess I thought the black and the snow were striking together. Brown might make the snow look kind of ugly... or maybe not. I'll have to think about it.

I think the black looks great up against the snow!

All my "SF" stuff gets black bases too.

I think Gits is trying to campaign for that Old School Green lip - ugh!

@Boss: My first thought: "You and I make our gyozas very differently." But now I see it.

@RT: Solid color combo- thumbs up. I'm also a fan of the black base edge.

really unique and awesome paintjob

No, I just think there's too much contrast between the white snow and the black base. It looks unnatural to me. I think the slate is too dark. Try painting one with the slate painted a lighter grey, highlighted in a lighter grey yet, then washed in Badab Black. You can still ring the base in black, that's not what I'm getting at.

Ah, I get it now. You're right, thanks for the tip Gits! I will try to go a bit heavier with the grey, and a bit lighter with the Badab black and see if I can get the slate to "pop" a bit more. It is really hard to make out in the pics; it's actually not quite so hard to make out in-person. But I agree that a lighter grey for the slate would be better

I still think he was bucking for "2nd Edition Green" on the bases!

None of my bases are green... sorry Alph.

That's looking very creepy so well done

I've tried using future as an adhesive for 'ash' rather than snow and while it works ok for display pieces I wouldn't trust it for gaming minis, I'd go with water effects or PVA glue with a bit of future over the top for the shine

and I think the contrast between the snow and the black looks great