nids nids nids! i cant wait, im so excited! im gonig to do a big tervigon conversion and cant wait to start my mawlock!

here are the stealers i started on friday night!

ok, i got a bit busy with termagants over the weekend. you dont want to see set by step pics like the stealers, so i painted some!

the faces still need work, as do the guns... and the feet.... omg, there is so many of them!

Ah Damnit...

I was waiting for this one to appear, and now again am faced with the inevitable loathing and jealousy whenever looking at any of your paint jobs mate .

Awesome Colour Selection too. Hive Fleet Jensen coming to devour Canberra

So can I hazard a guess you love your devlin mud? (who doesn't)

But really mate, you have a very effective looking colour scheme going on there, I really like it, keep it up.

Agent Smith

Cheers guys!

ok, next cab off the rank, Carnifex... aka, Tervigon!









OK, what do I do do about their bases? I was thinking just glue small pebbles/rocks and going black, upto grey to white highlights? too boring? it should reflect the models well? i dunno, suggestions?

oh yeah, i still have to do the tail, but its mostly finished! also, the white shows up like a biarch in these photos! trust me, they dont show so bright in RL! its much more tame on the white really!

The tervifex has too many limbs and not enough spawning sac type things to distinguish it from a normal fex imho. But I'm just nit picking

cheers, ill have a think about changing him........

I dunno. Just atm, I look at it and see a fex, not a tervigon. There's nothing about it that makes it stand out to me as being a tervigon. Don't worry about the limb count, that's just my being silly. Maybe add some termigants to the base that are covered in goo to look like they've been freshly spawned?

oh no, the clippers have come out. there is a massive hole in him now! haha!

I blame Mike

Excellent! My plans to sabotage your efforts for the challenge are complete Looking forward to seeing what you do to it though.

Wow... First week and there are already Sabotage efforts! We can only hope for retaliation and inevitable escalation

Looking sweet mate, keen to see them irl, the bright white doesn't look bad at all (to me, but I'll never be a consultant for any fashion/makeover tv show )

well, here is the hole cavity below what was the head of the carnifex. my original plan was to have multipul termagants coming out but the size proportion of the fex/gaunt is not large enough to fit more than one. ill do more good drips later then paint it up. sorry for the white, its really hard to tell really whats going on from these photos!

sorry

should i covert the termagant somehow? i doubt he will spawn holding his gun in a war pose....

suggestions?

just have him "crowning"

I kind of like it like that. Given the symbiotic nature of beast and weapon, I imagine the gaunt would be spawned with its weapon. But it does look like it's about to faceplant into the ground

like most animals being born, they tend to end up on the ground covered in goo. id imagine this guy would hit the ground (quite possibly face first) before getting up and fighting soon after. a foal can get up almost immediately and start running, id imagine a guant would be somewhat similar. the face first thing does not strike me as wiered, but id imagine the gaunt would have a much less mature/warlike pose during spawning/delivary.

i was thinking of having the gun seperate, maybe it came out first and lying on the ground with the gaunt coming soon after in a more feeble or loose pose? know where im coming from? am i making any sense?

as for the crowing thing, im not convinced your serious or that it would actually be any good! sorry!

ok, the initial round of painted is complete. all the hard to get to touch-ups to follow! the goo, spawn gup needs some colour change, shades of red are not doing it for me. suggestions?

and more goop? he is far too clean for my liking.

maybe add some drops of goop in some places? Nothing huge, just some smalls blobs here and there?

And now I'm gonna be sick...

That is Awesome! Disgusting, but awesome

It looks like it is in labour with all the gross goo and gnashing teeth.

great work!

D

How about making the currently spawning guant a lighter colour so it looks like the carapace hardens up when it hits the air?

Or darker, with less colour, as though the colour starts to come through after they hit the air.

But either way something to make him look fresh!

cover it in gloss varnish

Ok, it does not look like much change but

- the original goo drops are bigger
- ive added more goo smaller goo drops
- the spawning gaunt is totally glossed so looks totally wet
- the goo is darker with flecks of black to mix with the red
- ive added two fully spawned termagants to the base
- they have a little bit of goo on them, no drops and are about half glossed for a half dry effect
- i rocked the base

to do:
- still finish the tail
- re-greenstuff both sides of his jaw for a smoother effect
- paint the rocked base
- greenstuff his tube thingys on top of the carapace where the joins arent great

then im done!



edit: the pics didnt work first time!

its not much to add, but im going away from mon-fri for work to sunny bendigo! i plan on painting a metric c**pload as there will be..... not much else to do!

see you in a week!

The Tervigon looks awesome mate! Can't wait to shoot it down in a game next month

I have found Luke's inspiration for his tervigon!

What the hell is that?
It looks like... chicken gone moldy in a can... or something.

Chicken in a can. I stole the pic from the American's are weird thread on Off topic

Thank God Mike said something, I was a little afraid to, cause it is a pretty model, and wondering if I was being too nit-picky, but completely agree...

That spawning Termagaunt looks totally awesome and screams "AlienS" to me.

It's looking better now, of course. But still, really, it's a bit small

Looking at the picture in the codex, my mind sees the Tervigon (and Tyrannofex) as much more akin to a Hierodule...

I am thinking about starting with *2* Carnifex kits... With more spawning Termagants... See if I can make it anything likke what Im seeing in my head!

I want a wider model, with at least a few spawning gants (all based on your prototype, thanks for the tip)

I want three rows of spore chimney things

etc....

I'm back at work now, I just might steal your spawning pattern in my double carnifex-Tervigon conversion effort and kick off later in March.

Nice scheme, the gants azre already looking nice

here is a quick installment!

Gargoyle Bases in progress! i might have to glue more rocks onto hide the washer, but ill see how it goes after painting one. bases are easy to redo if needs be.

That's $160 worth of minis? Eep?

hahaha, no, thats a good chunk of over $500 worth of minis!

Round One is
Tervigon
Termigants
Genestealers

Round 2
Ravenours

Round 3
Hive Guard
Zoanthrope

Round 4
2 Zoanthropes

Round 5
Hormigants

Round 6
Warriors


so im nearly finished my round one off!

whats on that board represents about 1200-1300 points!

here is a bit of background on the nids i chose. I didnt want to do squad markings because while i think its fluffy for guard and marines and the like to do that, it does not seem like a tyranid thing to do. so i based what i bought around having 0-1 choices of anything in the codex so that squad markings, or plain painting them different to tell them apart was not necessary. this extended to anything that came from the same box set too so absolutely no confusion should be had over which was which and such. so 0-1 tervigons and carnifex, 0-1 mawlocs and trygons, 0-1 stealers and ygmal and anything else that came from the boxed set.

this also provided me a great deal of different things to paint. different models to play with and much much variety in the list. i personally hate painting the same/similar mini over and over again, thats why i managed 750 points of orks and pretty much stopped. ive only got 40 tac marines in my 5000+ of marines. so variety is good in my mind! keeps it fresh and interesting.

Most of my list at the moment is goverened by how many come in the box, ie, two box's of hormagaunts = 24 minis, so i have a single squad of 24 hormagaunts in my list.

so those are the two reasons (squad markings and bordom evasion) i chose what nids made the cut!

that just ate 3 minutes of your lie you will never get back! muahahah!

And yet you've got that beautiful Necron army . Not that you have much in the way of choice for them though

you raise a good point sir richard, however that army was painted a long long time ago, back i was single and had more patients and time! haha!

Someone just pointed out

"what about the different squads of termagaunts the tervigon spawns?"


......... damn!

gargoyle bases with more paint =



then they end up looking like this =

im thinking some green flock to breakup the mass of blacks/greys/whites! they need color!

I was thinking of putting bitz of my fantsy skeletons all over all of my bases, but boney/brown on top of that might not work well with the colours

here are some gargoyles in progress =

gargoyles with more paint =

here some better pics of the stuff i painted down in bendigo a week ago

here is a guy from another system... hordes? i dunno, but i found him and he looks super cool! maybe he can be a parasite for me? or some other larger than a gargoyle, smaller than a flyrant, tryranid!

I think he would make a good Parasite, seems to have 6 limbs?

Three sets of wings is a bit funky though.




So what are you going to do about the squad(s) of Termagants that the Tervigon spawns?

ive been thinking about that..... i have not come up with anything yet