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well, I'm back to Dakkadakka again! I've recently picked up a cheap tyranid battleforce off ebay (someone opened the box, closed it without doing anything, and sold it for 75% the original price. can you believe it?) and I had sufficient leftover bits to convert a rough biovore following Alex Kolodotshko's scratch-built biovores http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/214003.page#323268. But I didn't have any spore mines, and nothng useful showed up on Google, AND I'm to cheap to buy the metal ones. So I made my own. I made two, then decided to make a tutorial for the third one.
-READ THE WHOLE TUTORIAL BEFORE STARTING!-

first you need:
x1 gaunt adrenal gland
x1 gaunt venom sacs
x1 gaunt devour arm
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first, get the arm. cut off the pipe, the claw and the finger connected to the pipe:
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to get this:


a quick pipe comparison:


now set the pieces aside. you need EVERYTHING sans the pipe-less arm. now take your gland and sac. drop a bit of glue into the underside of the gland and then drop in the sac like so:


now file the edge of the gland that the pointy end of the sac is on until it's flat. you can skip this part if you want to/don't understand, but it helps later when you need to glue the sac/gland onto the pipe.
now get the little nob/thumb thing and the claw and position them side-by side on the bottom of the gland:


and the 'bell' of the spore is done.
now glue on the pipe. the pipe should be like a Y, with the smaller pipe extension connecting to the knob/thumb. Alternately you could glue the knob/thumb onto the pipe first, but it's harder to position the bell on afterwards. the main pipe should connect to the 'bottom' that you just filed/didn't file flat:


then just glue the spore onto a base and your done!
here a few pictures to clarify:

you should be able to see what I mean by file the bottom flat now.

finished spores with the biovore. Or you could just uses the spores by themselves.

NICE

That's a brilliant way to use up all the spare bits after making a load of Warrior kits.

Indeed. Looks like a fine tip.

Great work! A nice way to use all the spare parts we accumulate from 'nid boxes.

Valk

Those look pretty good to me. Always looking for new ways to get through my mountain of nid bits.
Glad you liked the Biovores enough to have a go yourself.

Thanks everyone, I'm glad my work was appreciated! Right now I'm thinking about a frag spore conversion, I'll add it to this thread when I'm done! (this one counts as a toxic spore, in case your wondering)

wow, that's actually awesome- must keep hold of my extra bits once i get my tyranid battleforce

I've finally figured out a way to make frag spore mines! it utilizes the same arm and one of the billion implant attack heads you get with genestealers. I'll post pictures later tonight!