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1/04/16 - Infant/Drone Xenomorphs

Xenomorph Infants/Drones

N-verse fluff
"The Xenomorph is a recurring threat amongst the stars, rarely seen in the numbers purged during the great crusade they still show up on space hulks, rouge trader vessels and remote colony's (1).
Xenomorphs are deadly creatures but often overlooked for more numerous and dangerous species (2), Xenomorphs have no space faring capacity so outbreaks while bloody are usually self containing.
As I will discuss later Xenomorphs are Parasitic, needing a host to propagate. After the initial larval form (3), the Xenomorph will quickly develop into the below specimen.
It is hotly debated among my colleagues if this form is mearly an infant form of the Xenomorph or acts as a drone within the hive structure.

Please Note all Xenomorph forms have acidic blood capable of eating through most personal protection shy of power armour(4). Precise Weapons that cauterise their target are preferable when dealing with these threats
So while you may wish to hit them with your hammer "of overcompensation" Inquisitor Dario please be mindful of splash back.

1. Likely as a result of unauthorised salvage of said space hulks
2. Genestealers share a lot in common with Xenomorph's but understandably gain priority over them from my colleagues.
3. Crudely referred to as chestburster
4. With enough volume/ repeated application the acid will eventually penetrate/ dissolve most substances."
..............Inquisitor Justice Sedante Ordo Xenos




Last recorded image of PanO fire team Delta


"For Macragge"
Pict recording from the Purging of Colony 2871


Fluff bits over
the grey is a lot darker in real life, looks like I'll have to play around with my lighting set up again.

While these are finished for the time Being ill come back to some of them at a later date to add drool


Thanks for looking and reading

Totally in love with that bit of fluff and the models. You have nailed them. Fluff is awesome bud.

Thanks cam, always good to know when someone else enjoys my head cannon

2/04/16 - Facehuggers

the lifecycle of the Xenomorph starts as an egg birthed from a Queen organism.
Theses eggs host the "Facehuggers"
"Facehuggers" are The Delivery system for the Xenomorph parasite, a seemingly weak and insignificant threat that sometimes proves more deadly than its adult counterparts.
Small and stealthy once the Facehuggers latches on it, is impossible to remove without killing the victim (1)(2), in addition the eggs are often placed like organic land mines.
The Parasite can bond with most biological beings in the galaxy the resulting Xenomorph will adopt trades from the host creature (3)

1- so far successful removal of the Facehugger has taken place with the victim surviving, but there are rare accounts of the Xenomorph larvae being removed post "hug" with the host surviving.
2- we have discovered corpses of ork victims where (in typical Orc fashion) have tried to chew through the Facehugger to escape it's grasp. Needless to say the corpses are found with their faces melted.
3 - So far we have encountered Xenomorph variations from most creatures in the galaxy including Grox, Yndij,Tau, Eldar and before their final cleansing Morat. Thankfully there are no recorded cases of an Astartes being infected to put to rest the debate on if any Astartes traits would be passed to the Xenomorph Variation.

..............Inquisitor Justice Sedante Ordo Xenos




I was a bit lazy with these to be honest just base coated, then washed but I like the result anyway.

Thanks for looking and reading.

Good stuff on the Xenomorphs and Facehuggers, and the 'action shots' look ace!

Thanks para

Great aliens and Facehuggers I like the basing too very discreet and interesting.

Thanks Navarro

4/04/16 -

"Crusher!!!"
........last words of guardsman Kenny of the 75th Albion rifles before he became a smear on a hab wall.





Metal claws didn't look right on this guy

Family photo

All the xenos I've painted so far, still got the runners and predalien to paint up in my active pip pile.

Trying to get both to look like their movie counterparts to add a bit more colour to the Xeno force.

Thanks for looking

Awesome stuff once again!

Ta Para

Terrain & Scenery

Finally got around to buying a new jigsaw and workbench so I can get back to making some scenery.( finally!)

I'll be doing something with these


....This


Building this


Finishing this


The battlezone fortification sprues are a right PITA to work with but I want this to have another tower, It'll all be glued together because of the fortification sprue issues.

.....And this




Had this at Christmas, had a few near misses with ruining it so pretty scared of this beast.
The door sections are crazy fiddly and fragile and I've broke (but managed to repair) 3 of the 8 I've put in so far.

Thanks for looking C&C always welcome.

Loving that building, really nice, would like to see details of doors.

Battlezone stuff is great, but I agree can be a real to work with. Not quite as advertised.

Looking forward to seeing what your idea comes out as.

And that beasty is cool as chips. Brilliant.

Thanks cam

Anything specific you want to see and I'll try to get some pics later?

Super Happy Panda Noodle Bar

I fell in love in love with this kit when it was first shown.

My Girlfriend got me this for my birthday a couple of weeks ago, Firestorm had a delay getting it so I only got it Saturday.



Here's what you get in the box.


MDF is pre coloured Pro tip - there is a layer of paper over the top of the white bits to avoid any laser soot/ burn marks. Don't be a muppet like me and email Antenocities workshop asking Why it's not coloured :( ( a big thank you to Nadine at Antenocities for being kind to me when I realised I was a muppet)

The panda is gorgeous but really fragile until you glue it all together.

Leisurely Progress after 2 episodes of 24


Really easy kit to put together

Only issue I have is that there no instructions for the kitchen area table, or where the resin parts (other than the door pieces and what you can see in pics online) are supposed to go.

And 1 episode later
All the external MDF parts are all done (really easy kit), I've added a bit of paint to the kitchen counter (still not worked out how to assemble the table yet) and painted the the edge of the Panda sign black.



Now to clean up the resin pieces, get them painted and in the building.

I'm debating on magnetising the Panda sign for storage/ make it less likely to get snapped of when I'm being an oaf.

Do you think I should paint the edges of the White parts to get rid of the MDF charred brown? And Should I magnetise the Panda or just glue on?

Magnets.

No paint, looks superb as is.

Great kit bud.

Oh and if you dont mind hinge details.

20/04/16 - Super Happy Panda Noodles finished

It's finished









Close up of the pantry


Ended up gluing the panda to the piece, the area for the magnets was a little too thin for the ones I own.

Might go back and get a couple of varnish coats over the TV monitors and I need to clean up that yellow smudge on the shelves :(

Review
Negatives
No instructions for the interior placement and table build - you can work it out from pics online tho
No floor - this is the big let down for me, I would have preferred it to have a floor but your mostly going to use on an urban table so shouldn't look that weird.

Positives
That Panda is so damn cute......
Really easy build
Great detail on the resin bits
Don't need to paint anything if you don't want too but the resin bits look really nice with the extra colour.
I really love that panda.

Overall really happy with the kit, if you play sci fi games and can get your hands on this I think you should

And that really cute Panda thinks you should too


Thanks for looking

P.S Cam I'll get you pics of the hinges tomorrow

Excellent stuff, once again your attention to detail is very impressive!

That's a cool looking building. Though I'd probably chop off the giant Panda and try to make it much more dingy and run-down looking so the "Happy Panda" is a bit more ironic and sad, lol.

But I like my Sci-Fi dystopic. I mean, after all, there needs to be a reason why everyone is unhappy and fighting all the time.

Thanks both

lol like the idea Srg, but maybe everyone is fighting to get some panda noddles (where panda in the protein )

That panda is really damn cute. Why not just apply your own floor? Seems reasonable. HOLY GAWD MY CHEST POPPED. I love your xenomorphs. So awesome.

Nice work on the noodle bar. Not sure how good noodles made from panda would taste though. A bit like bamboo maybe?

It is a fairly detailed kit. Antenocitis make excellent products. It does illustrate one of the limitations of MDF though, the difficulty in making curved pieces. That front piece would look better if it had been resin or plastic, and thus without all the cut marks on it.

Nice work, sir! That will look great on the gaming table.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Nice work on the noodle bar. Not sure how good noodles made from panda would taste though. A bit like bamboo maybe?

It is a fairly detailed kit. Antenocitis make excellent products. It does illustrate one of the limitations of MDF though, the difficulty in making curved pieces. That front piece would look better if it had been resin or plastic, and thus without all the cut marks on it.

Maybe the panda makes the noodles?

Finished product looks brilliant, looking to get one i think, or steal the idea and see if i can't scratch close to it.

And with Panda, just make your own floor.

Thanks for all the comments guys

cormadepanda wrote:That panda is really damn cute. Why not just apply your own floor? Seems reasonable. HOLY GAWD MY CHEST POPPED. I love your xenomorphs. So awesome.

Thanks

I initially thought your comment about your chest bursting was due to the cuteness of the Panda

Red Harvest wrote:Nice work on the noodle bar. Not sure how good noodles made from panda would taste though. A bit like bamboo maybe?

It is a fairly detailed kit. Antenocitis make excellent products. It does illustrate one of the limitations of MDF though, the difficulty in making curved pieces. That front piece would look better if it had been resin or plastic, and thus without all the cut marks on it.

Ta Red

Very true about the MDF, I was going to run filler over the curved surface to get rid of the cut marks but when I assembled it I liked the look with the additional lines rather than a smooth surface.

Also I reckon panda would taste like chicken......

Edit: according to Google Panda should take like fattier beef

Re- Floor - I will make a base for it eventually maybe incorporating some seating (so customers can be charged and extra 10% for eating their panda noodles onsite)
Just a shame for me that it didn't have something there from the get go like the 4ground stuff I've played with so it could be a self contained unit.

P.S Later than said (blame Dark souls 3) but here ya go Cam

Stoic arms door Hinge detail

Doors are all made up of 3 pieces (door itself and the 2 rectangles with the holes)


The door pegs go into the holes.

You glue in the bottom and top bits to the building (making sure that you don't glue the door)

And it moves (even if you break the top bit putting it in then repair it)

Ooo nice door hitting action. I actually really like that structure. A lot, nice for some interior fighting.

Like ALIEN NABBING PREDITOR COMBAT SPACE MARINE KILLING FRENZY GUARDSMEN ACTION.

Ta Panda

April overview

April Hobby purchases



That comes to £96.83 so just in budget. Putting a spending freeze on for the next few months (only limited edition/crazy deal purchases) got more than enough to get on with especially with Deadzone KS shipping soon.

Also got these for my bday at the end of March, I'm not opening the Overkill box until I've cleared one of my PIP draws, and I'm going to try to "tru scale" the marines like my Ultramarines.

Which brings us nicely to

April PIP

Can't remember where I saw this but someone suggested using one of these from ikea

For organising hobby bits. It works really well so I've got a shelf for tools and ongoing minis. A big thanks to that hobby dude whoever you are.

AVP

Theres only a few Alien warriors still needing some green stuff after being reposed and that will then be all the Xenomorphs ready to go.

Got the missing bits for my power loader, marine and predator from Prodos so they should be in the PIP mix soon.

Misc

Loads going on here
A no prize if you can identify all the minis in the pile.

GW/40k

Dire avengers are still there, really struggling to find the motivation to just get them finished.

They have now been joined by an orlock ganger(one of my favourite ever GW minis) and an engineseer.

Onto the finished stuff

Runner Xenomorph test



Tried to get her looking like the movie version, not perfect but it looks good to me.

I've got more bases from Fenris, so I can get the rest of the runners finished off shorty


Enforcers
Another batch of enforcers finished.

"MyVerse Fluff"

"The Enforcers of the Co Prosperity sphere(1), are an attempt by the Rouge trader Dynasties to have their own Astartes.
Armoured in Xeno tech (2) each enforcer is stronger, tougher (3) and faster than an unenhanced human, but not to the same degree as an Space marine. (4)
They are the backbone of the ruling elites power and as such serve only the 7 Rouge trader dynasties who run the CoOperations(5) this is In part due to the cost of maintaining these Enforcer units and partly due to trade agreements with the Forge fathers who provide the Power Armour the enforcers use.

1. A large sector of space south of the Segmentum Tempestus founded by Rouge Traders.
2. Many of my colleagues believe the Forge fathers are an off shoot of the Squat abhumans, but limited contact means no conclusive evidence has been found.
3. Enforcers are able to operate after serious injury even limb removal, it's believed to be some form of combat drug similar to slaught but far more refined.
4. For an account of Enforcer vs Astartes see Lord Inquisitor Hofstadter's "Audit of CoOperation" where Hofstadter engineers a confrontation between his Deathwatch bodyguard and a group of Enforcers to intimidate the Rogue trader he was meeting with.(6)
5. Pronounced Corporations by themselves
6. It worked

..............Inquisitor Justice Sedante Ordo Xenos




Keeping the iPod armour on these, pretty happy with them though I'll probably re do the power knife

Family photo


All my enforcers as they stand (most of the old restic ones are going to the EBay), I went back and redid the armour on the sniper and the Peacekeeper captain to match the rest.


Thanks for looking and reading

Enforcers are looking great.

I have some ideas for fixing up my hobby space too, just got to get the urge to do them.

Your April buy pics remind me I need some cork bottle stoppers for an idea I have.....

Good stuff, liking those Enforcers a lot!

Thanks both

Aliens look good, terrain looks good, enforcers look good. Good work all round Joe!

Can I ask what the Ikea shelf is called? Looks like it might be handy for storing my queue of unpainted minis, depending on size.

Thanks ckig

It's the Kvissle letter tray

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/70198031/

The enforcers really lend themselves to that scheme, excellent execution. Funny how they look scary in clean and crisp.