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Are there any cheap pyrovores or biovores out there?

I am looking to kitbash some. I know you can glue guns on the backs of hive guards. Are there any other alternative?

Cheers.

Have you seen these?

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/789546.page#10853526

Actually yes. That was partly what promted my curiosety. I do not have a 3D printer.

I believe that you can get companies such as Shapeways to print them for you, but I have never done so myself.

Hmmm can anyone share how to do that? I also don’t have a 3D printer but would love those pyrovores

Most of the conversions I've seen are based on either Warriors or Hive Guard. Angle the bodies forward a fair bit, give warriors (if using them as the base) either rending claws or spare tyrant guard forelimbs to replicate the stabilizing arms, slap a heavy bio-cannon on the back, and do a little greenstuff work to cover the gaps and you have a serviceable biovore. Detail out with spare bio-tubes, whips, and glands as you'd like. There are a bunch of examples kicking around on google images, if you want to check what other people have come up with.

Granted, a warrior kit is still $55, but it's better than the $41.25(!) they want for that ridiculous biovore sculpt.

Indeed the warriors are quite good pyrovores. They get even better if you swap the warrior head for a termagant head.

 Nitro Zeus wrote:
Hmmm can anyone share how to do that? I also don’t have a 3D printer but would love those pyrovores

https://www.shapeways.com/. Create an account, hit "upload a model", upload the model, they'll give you a price quote for various materials. I will note that Shapeways isn't cheap, it's much cheaper than buying a STL printer but for some purposes it might actually be cheaper (if not easier) to buy a FDM printer yourself. (They also don't ship to Russia, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, or Syria, but if you live in Syria you might have bigger problems.)

Yeah I don’t think the 40k scene is too big in Syria right now anyway.

Thanks for the info!

Tyranid warrior, or Hive guard can be converted into them easily.

While i did not know about Shapeways, which is interesting. I noticed that my local library has a 3-D printer. Depending on where you live in the world, I would at least ask if the local library has one. It is one of those things that I am thinking of doing on a few things, now that I know that I have access to one. I am sure that I would need to schedule the time in advance when the library is back operation, but I can't think of a better way to get my feet wet in 3-D printing.

I have asked about a bit. I have found a private person who can help me. The public options did not have a resin printer. A palstic printer renders the model very bulky. (Plastic put down layers every 2 mm, resin every 1 mm.)

Here is a printscreen form Shapeways. Not the prices I where hoping for. Around 20 for a model, and I do not know if that is in plastic or resin.

On top of that, because of korona resin is very hard to get a hand on.

Made these out of spare parts a few years back. Warrior body/tail/legs, hive guard forelimbs, hormagaunt bits, barbed strangler, carnifex claw armour:

That's better than any Biovore mini GW has ever released.

Just a kitbash, or did you use green stuff anywhere?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
That's better than any Biovore mini GW has ever released.

Just a kitbash, or did you use green stuff anywhere?

Thanks. I did use a little greenstuff to blend the barbed strangler barrel to the claw armour, and the claw armour to the warrior torso - but it was essentially all gap-filling then sanding down, not anything fancy.

Those are my favorite Tyranid conversions I have seen in some time. Really excellent work there; you did a fantastic job not doing things. Leaving it simple makes it blend with the rest of the range instead of sticking out as obviously-a-conversion miniatures.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Those are my favorite Tyranid conversions I have seen in some time. Really excellent work there; you did a fantastic job not doing things. Leaving it simple makes it blend with the rest of the range instead of sticking out as obviously-a-conversion miniatures.

Thanks, and yeah I agree with your point about keeping them simple and in-line with the other models (unlike the current GW ones...).



I went out to the garage and took a snap of the full unit with a different angle to the other pic (which you can also vote on in the gallery )