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I saw this tonight and I am far beyond in total awe of this
This is a masterpiece
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=10400098

I agree, completely spectacular.

dat is sexy

Words cannot express it's magnificence.

...So, the Blood Angels have it all under control then?

 Zed wrote:
Words cannot express it's magnificence.

...So, the Blood Angels have it all under control then?

Nope, tide turned against them when 6th Edition hit...

Zagman wrote:
Nope, tide turned against them when 6th Edition hit...

Point...

Zagman wrote:

Nope, tide turned against them when 6th Edition hit...

It hurts so much......

Lovely diorama. I can't imagine the nightmare of painting each 'nid and glueing them together to make a tower....

I'd love to see a close-up of the Sanguinary Guard though!

Lucarikx

Nice to see a diorama that accurately depicts a Tyranid assault. Very spectacular, and very worthy of winning.

Very much digging the necron fliers, simple change for a huge difference.

My body aches at wondering how much that diorama cost to make for something that will sit on a shelf. ._. I really hope that guy won like...money, or at least some store credit or something. x_X

That said, those are both -amazing.- Gosh, I wish I could paint like that.

Zagman wrote:

 Zed wrote:
Words cannot express it's magnificence.

...So, the Blood Angels have it all under control then?

Nope, tide turned against them when 6th Edition hit...

Too bad. But great diorama.

Eissel wrote:
My body aches at wondering how much that diorama cost to make for something that will sit on a shelf. ._. I really hope that guy won like...money, or at least some store credit or something. x_X

That said, those are both -amazing.- Gosh, I wish I could paint like that.

Some people aren't in it for gaming.

I'm surprised those necrons are just chilling on their own board rather than going to help out their buddies against the nids

But yes, both excellent, though I particularly love the BA vs Nid display. Pretty much just what I would picture an attack by them looking like.

Beautiful but in accurate. The an accurate depiction wouldbe the blendernought stand in a sea of purple goo!

Both look great, especially the BA one that guy knows what a horde is. Did anyone see the Armies on parade winner from GD US, that thing was crazy.

 Zed wrote:
Words cannot express it's magnificence.

...So, the Blood Angels have it all under control then?

Nope. They need necrons to help them.

Wouldn't the big bases make it hard to use those models in games?

Ugh! GW's terrible photography strikes again. It just looks like a huge pile of models. You can't really pick out any of the "intricate details" that they claim to be there because of the piss-poor excuse for closeups when you click on the pics.

From what I can make out, it is amazingly modeled and painted. I'll wait for some non-official pics of this to surface that will do it justice.

I can't see how good the painting is, the Marines look good but the tyranids seem good tabletop. I think people are being distracted by the scale of it rather than the quality. It's a painting competition, a single foot figure at the top level should win over a mountain of well painted stuff IMO.

While i agree that the Tyranids aren't quite up to Roman's usualy standard ( at least when compared to the Blood Angels), i would still rate them above good tabletop standard.
The style of that diorama reminds me of his The Wayfarer ( http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.de/2010/11/step-by-step-nurgle-death-guard.html ) miniature.

I particularly like the attention to points values in that first one. One SG, a couple of Termies a Dread and a few Marines *does* cost about the same as an entire Tyranid army.

Just imagine if this guy completly assembled the thing before painting.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I can't see how good the painting is, the Marines look good but the tyranids seem good tabletop. I think people are being distracted by the scale of it rather than the quality. It's a painting competition, a single foot figure at the top level should win over a mountain of well painted stuff IMO.

I'd like to see you do better.

I wish there were more and better pictures of both armies.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I can't see how good the painting is, the Marines look good but the tyranids seem good tabletop. I think people are being distracted by the scale of it rather than the quality. It's a painting competition, a single foot figure at the top level should win over a mountain of well painted stuff IMO.

This guy does lots of dioramas. Type tyranid into the Dakka gallery and sort by most veiws. The one with a rhino being swarmed and one with a trygon and carnifex fighting a dreadnought in a 2 story brick building.

That is quite easily the best diorama I have even seen. I wish GW had done a fancy 360° picture of it.

Pretty awesome, love the nids.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I can't see how good the painting is, the Marines look good but the tyranids seem good tabletop. I think people are being distracted by the scale of it rather than the quality. It's a painting competition, a single foot figure at the top level should win over a mountain of well painted stuff IMO.

Couldn't disagree more. If they look bland I'd say it is an intentional part of the style. The tyranids provide a mass from which it is difficult to pick out individuals, whilst the space marines stand out right away.

If you look closely at the tyranids you can see loads of detail on the joints on their arms etc. I'd love to see a 360' image or more close ups to get a better look.

scottmmmm wrote:

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I can't see how good the painting is, the Marines look good but the tyranids seem good tabletop. I think people are being distracted by the scale of it rather than the quality. It's a painting competition, a single foot figure at the top level should win over a mountain of well painted stuff IMO.

Couldn't disagree more. If they look bland I'd say it is an intentional part of the style. The tyranids provide a mass from which it is difficult to pick out individuals, whilst the space marines stand out right away.

If you look closely at the tyranids you can see loads of detail on the joints on their arms etc. I'd love to see a 360' image or more close ups to get a better look.

+1 internets for you, sir. I agree completely that its part of the style. The "faceless" hordes vs the mighty heroes. I think its great.

That guard flying away is the coolest thing I've ever seen. Hands down.

 squall018 wrote:

scottmmmm wrote:

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I can't see how good the painting is, the Marines look good but the tyranids seem good tabletop. I think people are being distracted by the scale of it rather than the quality. It's a painting competition, a single foot figure at the top level should win over a mountain of well painted stuff IMO.

Couldn't disagree more. If they look bland I'd say it is an intentional part of the style. The tyranids provide a mass from which it is difficult to pick out individuals, whilst the space marines stand out right away.

If you look closely at the tyranids you can see loads of detail on the joints on their arms etc. I'd love to see a 360' image or more close ups to get a better look.

+1 internets for you, sir. I agree completely that its part of the style. The "faceless" hordes vs the mighty heroes. I think its great.

Mhmm I was thinking this as well. In any case I just have this to say: holy balls!!!