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Hello!
So, I dun goofd.. Here is my hive tyrant. or what used to be a hive tyrant.
I let him soaked in acetone free nail polish for ~4 hours. I wanted the paint to come off but I clearly didnt read enough about that stuff.

So, yay; melted, bumpy, grimm-looking hive tyrant zombie!
Im looking for any suggestion you might have to what I should do with him. As sad as I am, im not gonna get him back, so I better find him a use.
Whats your suggestion? Idea? Anything goes!

PSA: Dont soak your minis in nail polish remover for extended amounts of time, dont be stupid like me.

I think the answer here is defiantly something all nurgled up!

Yeah, I see a Greater Daemon of Nurgle. A little greenstuff and you'll have it

Price wrote:
I think the answer here is defiantly something all nurgled up!

SBG wrote:
Yeah, I see a Greater Daemon of Nurgle. A little greenstuff and you'll have it

Good idea, the rot is indeed strong with this one!

ouch,,,,,perhaps something like power purple next time,takes paint and glue off,but wont melt it.


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ouch,,,,,perhaps something like power purple next time,takes paint and glue off,but wont melt it.

Could be kinda cool to make him a piece of scenery. The bubbled look kinda looks like rotting exoskeleton. Just paint it like a husk, faded colors and greyish white edges.

Crumbling imperial statue of a hive tyrant being taken down by a dreadnought, or termies, given the same crumbly treatment?


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Ps. You have a LOT of program's sat in the taskbar... Cor


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Pps I did this to a contemptor dread. Details all smoothed out and the resin went all bendy and a bit purple. One day the bendiness might go, then I can do something with it. Totally nurgle.

Click on the big link in my signature. You're welcome

I dont really know tyranids that well but maybe with a few spare pieces a giant head with extra fangs or something you could patch him up and make ur own unique or custom warlord. another option would be add some blood splatter make him scenery with the idea that he just took a lascannon or something to the face.

I can see it set up as a Diorama piece.

If he looks melted, how about a Melta-gun wielding marine in a triumphant pose? Or use the kneeling legs to show one offering a prayer of thanks to the Emperor?

Oh - XENOS! How about Deathwatch? you could have a sternguard - equivalent team with combi meltas, a flamer and a heavy flamer or similar?

Sell it on ebay with a blurry photo!

 Nightlord1987 wrote:
Sell it on ebay with a blurry photo!

Thats why we can't have nice things.

Otherwise, doesn't look too bad from my point of view. Still looks tyranidy and those gribblies are all wishy-washy, right boyz? I think with some greenstuff you could make it work as a tyranid still. Might be time consuming but you could end up with somethign even better than the default modell, madskillz provided...

@Gomericus, be careful with Purple Power as well as I lost a unit of Forge World nurgle terminators... They got all puffy and bloated, completely unusable.

commissarbob wrote:
@Gomericus, be careful with Purple Power as well as I lost a unit of Forge World nurgle terminators... They got all puffy and bloated, completely unusable.

For nurgle... that sounds oddly okay.

It is a plastic miniature, right? Never soak the plastics in aceton / nail polish, rather use Dettol for it. You can soak plastic miniatures in Dettol for ages, I think my genestealers and rippers were in there for three weeks once. Only use aceton / nail polish on metal miniatures.

 KingCracker wrote:
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Oh yes, I remember ive seen your guide! I live in Canada so i didnt knew if we have that product, because ive never seen it/bought it before. But its definitely worth checking out next time im at walmart

 FinecastPraisesNurgle wrote:
Crumbling imperial statue of a hive tyrant being taken down by a dreadnought, or termies, given the same crumbly treatment?
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Good idea! But I dont have any Space marines or other armies, so that'd be kinda hard. I already pretty much settled for a nurgle infected tyrant, I even have a small back story for it, lol. Thanks though!

moogy wrote:
I can see it set up as a Diorama piece.

If he looks melted, how about a Melta-gun wielding marine in a triumphant pose? Or use the kneeling legs to show one offering a prayer of thanks to the Emperor?

Oh - XENOS! How about Deathwatch? you could have a sternguard - equivalent team with combi meltas, a flamer and a heavy flamer or similar?

Oh man, thats also a pretty good idea, but I doubt im qualified enough to do that yet. plus, no space marines :L

 Nightlord1987 wrote:
Sell it on ebay with a blurry photo!

/make it rain

 Sasa0mg wrote:

commissarbob wrote:
@Gomericus, be careful with Purple Power as well as I lost a unit of Forge World nurgle terminators... They got all puffy and bloated, completely unusable.

For nurgle... that sounds oddly okay.

You know youve got problems whe nurgle and tyranids unite. BIG troubles.

 tydrace wrote:
It is a plastic miniature, right? Never soak the plastics in aceton / nail polish, rather use Dettol for it. You can soak plastic miniatures in Dettol for ages, I think my genestealers and rippers were in there for three weeks once. Only use aceton / nail polish on metal miniatures.

Thanks for the advice, but im kinda scared shitless now, ill just handle my bad paint jobs and try to make them better