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We are a small group who does painting services and conversions on the side (well we haven't done a lot of conversions the past few months because we have a guy do it for us now. see below) and mainly just love playing warhammer 40k. We also have a 4x8 table in our shop that, as a project, we will fill it with Space wolves, Imperial Guard, and Tyranids. To further give this project a Tyranid swarmed over feel, we will be making terrain as well. We need to make a lot of nids, maybe a whole bunch more pts wise, than the imperium side (and when I post the space wolves we've been working on you'll understand why we can't make too many of them). Hopefully, everything will culminate into an all-out apocalypse game sometime in the next few months.

We'd be happy to have your suggestions and input. Just a few things though:

- We are still a business (well, sort of) so if in the near future you see a model I posted and no longer see it in a display picture, chances are, somebody liked it and bought it. We have only done a few and already people bought more than half of them. After all, we still have to take care of our patrons. We can still make up for the taken models though.
- Suggestions for Tyranid color schemes or convertions are more than welcome. We plan to make the color scheme of the Tyranids very diverse, to make it look like the hive fleet that was attacking summoned other dormant Tyranid species across this galaxy. So don't be surprised if you see us painting one scheme then shifting to another.
- Imperial guard of course, can be from other schemes, and conversions as well. And IG player knows that it is not uncommon for guardsmen from other planets to serve along side guardsmen of different backgrounds. This is of course, how the ranks of the IG are filled.
- Spacewolves colors, have to be uniform. Though there is a lot of room for creativity in terms of how they look like and how they are armed (that's why we chose SW from all the marine chapters). Feel free to give us your suggestions on what you think would look cool on them.
- We usually prefer not to work with metal figures as they prone to chipping.

I bought these recently acquired conversions from a friend of a friend (I hitched a ride with my friend's shipment). He's a bit old school, no ebay (he says he'll try to have up one soon), and no website, just an email (miniscratchbuilder@yahoo.com). He works really cheap (missionaries probably get paid more) and because of that I had to fall in line since the friend I hitched my shipment with, won't stop hoarding! The stuff I ordered from him were:

- Tyranid warriors converted to Hive guard x 3 (1 brood), total of $24 dollars for all 3 (or $9 per H guard). Versus getting the Metal(!) Hive guard for $20.
- Tervigon x 2, around $27.50 per Tervie.
- Hydra Flak Tank x 2, around $28 per tank to arrive this weekend.
- Manticore, around $28 per tank to arrive this weekend.
- Thunder wolf cavalry, wolves and marine legs only, x 5, 5 different wolf designs. Around $10 per wolf. To arrive late next week.

NOTE: Only a phone camera was used so there may be some pixelations. Sorry bout that.

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As the weeks progress we'll be posting developments here. We'd like to think of it as, fluff wise, each army is developing its own arsenal to counter the other and we'll probably be playing using these units every once in a while.

[Tyranids]

The Hive Guard (converted from Tyranid Warrior)

I bought 3 of these and base coated them gray. I took pictures of the other two as my friend Don started painting the Nids. lol He owes me so I had him do all the painting for now. I'll get to painting when I have more time, for now I'll just be posting.



We took it back old school and went with the classic Leviatan... Fortunately and Unfortunately, some people liked it and they are currently bidding on it.





The Tervigon

I bought two and immediately I knew I made a mistake of not ordering more.



Don went with Leviatan again... And again, somebody liked it and bought it. I still have one, so I'll probably just ask Donell to repeat the Leviatan scheme. (sorry bout some of the shots, we don't have a decent camera right now)












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[Space wolves]

This is Don's army and he took the whole "Each Space Wolf is unique" mantra to heart as he wants to customize EACH AND EVERY infantry he has. Those accessories and design that each of these guys have here did not come from any sprue. He did this with epoxy putty! That's why we can't have more than 100 of these guys.

The Grey Hunters



The Wolf Scouts

These guys has to look "elite"!

nice work, how do you convert the scout with the melta gun?

the scout with the melta is probablly the easiest covnersion of the scouts, just clip a bolter off a nromal scout add meltagun find/mould suitable hand to hold it... done

i am very impressed and somewhat jealous of those space wolves.. good work and nice to see someone else usign the bare armed blood claws.

Plastic Hive Guard?

My god, that is cool.

Great minitures

those are very nice scouts, great poses! good job!

Miss Dee wrote:nice work, how do you convert the scout with the melta gun?

The scouts had to be unique, and the poses were dynamic so all the scout legs were sculpted from scratch, using paper clips as skeletons for the legs. Most of these we were trying to save a bit so we used epoxy putty. The difference with green stuff and epoxy putty is that you need to have a lot more patience... sculpt, wait to dry, then build it up again. With green stuff you can make a lot of corrections in one go. However, epoxy putty is better when sculpting capes and flowing stuff as you can wait for it to dry a bit, roll it flat with an oiled up pen, wait to dry again, and it becomes some sort of putty sheet of paper.

@ Grimm

Yeah, it doesn't chip AND... 3 Hive Guards for $24 vs 1 Metal Hive guard for $20... That's not even a question for us.

@ Sgt. Road Kill, Paranormi4, Trench.one

Thanks guys! Glad you appreciate it.

Your output offends me.

Because I can't have that much going at once and stay sane.

Great stuff!

I have a tone of sace wolves and an Iron Hands Razorback on the go, just waiting for the Assault cannons to arrive for the rb.

@ Major Tom11

I usually have help. And more often than not, we get paid for our services so we have to find a way to work time efficiently without compromising quality.

@ Miss Dee

Space wolves has the best bits among the SM chapters. Hope you post yours when you get them painted.

[Tyranids]

I did this Carnifex-to-Hive Tyrant last year. Unfortunately, I never had the time to paint it because the Nids was due for a new dex, I didn't want to arm him with something I couldn't use. Finally, I decided to go with the Scytals with wings. I think its a good setup, game and miniature wise.

NOTE: That the painting is not done yet. A lot of detail work still has to be done here but I'm just posting this so I could show you guys a work in progress. Be warned that this is a bit picture heavy as there are a lot of areas I wanted to show here. ALSO, I AM NO EXPERT PHOTOGRAPHER. I know we have to work on this but I'll have to get to that later.

Again, when I showed this they wanted to put this up on bid. So I have to go by shop rules and put it up. But they'll have to wait till I get through painting this.

The Carnifex to Hive Tyrant conversion



If you look closely, most of the body work has been done but there are a lot of detail work left to do. One of the obvious ones are the leg hair (I based the legs off a roan horse) and carapace armour. As a lot of you can see, I am a big fan of marvel comics since I was a kid, the poses here are very reminiscent of that. I wanted to do hulk arms with wolverine poses so I came up with this.







I used the wings from a mcfarlane dragon but a lot of putty work had to be done (and still to be done). below is a size comparison with a "normal" Hive tyrant



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I wanted my monstrous creatures with arms. Mainly I made the skeleton from paper clips and I used plastic sprues as fillers.



These guys are next:

I will, they are my mans Space Wolves, I used a cool trick to get the Logan sign on the shoulder pads. let me go look for it.


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Miss Dee wrote:I will, they are my mans Space Wolves, I used a cool trick to get the Logan sign on the shoulder pads. let me go look for it.


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That's a great trick. That is waaay better than transfers. Wow, a lady who supports his man's gaming... more scarce than diamonds.

BTT

btw, I have not updated for a few weeks since it has been crazy recently. Real life (or more specifically, work) catches up with all of us at one point or another. Not to mention the fact that most of what we have has been sold. With the little time I have left, its too hard to replenish the ranks. So I will be creating a new thread to concentrate on space wolves for now.

We hope you appreciate what we have in store for you.

I really like the dynamic poses on your models, Tyranids and Space Wolves alike. Very cool!

The last big Tyranid looks great with the reddish skin - seems almost a bit like a daemon, but fit this critter well!