Virroconus - Hive Guard

Cone Shellfish

The Cone Shellfish - Virroconus - is the 11th most dangerous animal in Australia (apparently) and hunts its pray by shooting a venomous harpoon at them. Not unlike the Impalor Cannon of the Hive Guard.

Here is a picture of Virroconus

And here are some pictures of my completed Hive Guard.

Back From the Dead

So... long time since I last posted. I've done a bit of modeling/painting over the last few years but I'm going to try and get back into it a bit more. Over the next couple of days I'll put up a few different things and then it'll probably slow down a fair bit.

So first thing's first then; here is my table!

Venomthrope Conversion won first Prize!!

Hello again

So my local group had another painting comp and the challenge this time was to convert and paint a model so that it looked like a piece of Games Workshop artwork

So here is the piece of artwork:                                       And my conversion

For those of you that don't know the model comes unassembled/unpainted and looks something like this


Here are some more pictures of the thrope. All comments welcome :D

A genestealer finished!

So I entered this little guy in a local painting competition. I came second in the amateur division, which I was quite proud of (other entries can be seen here: http://eternalwarriors.freeforums.org/january-comp-2012-t253.html)

I was 0.3 points out of 20 behind the lead, so I think I did quite well)

Here's the pic

Battle Report

A friend of mine wrote up a battle report for a game between me and him last saturday. He did a really good job.
Here's the link: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?331210-21-01-12-Campaign-IG-vs-Tyranids-750pts

My first painted brood!! - Devilgaunts

So here is my first fully painted brood of devilgaunts (termagants with devourers- the guns)
They will be named Notomys after the australian hopping mouse, because honestly, that's what they look like compared to the rest of the army :D
The Brood picture

 A close up of one of them

A few more medium sized bugs

Here are a few more medium sized bugs

Unfortunately the Venomthrope I converted (I have decided to rename him Chironex Fleckeri - the box jellyfish) has sprung back into his original shape (damn finecast) and so the conversion would not hold. The metal one I will convert  eventually (hence he has no arms) but I have given up trying to convert finecast :(

 Virroconus - Hive Guard, named after Cone Shellfish, an australian shell fish that fires poisoned, bone spurs at it's prey, oddly appropriate given their appearance and gun :D (I know picture's not great, it'll look better when fully painted (I forgot to take a picture before I undercoated them)

Broodlord (and genestealers)

Not entirely sure what to name these guys after, I think maybe dingoes... oh well here they are, The broodlord started life as a warrior, but with a cut off tail, a more upright body and a greenstuffed head (i'm not really happy with the head yet, but am unsure what to do about it as yet) I htink he looks pretty good.

I modeled the finders to look as if he was pointing at something and when I'm finished his other hand will be holding a space maring body. I also have a few more genestealers I will be converting coming up. (In fact I will be entering one of them in a painting comp in about a week's time, I'll put him up after that)

Lactrodectus Finished (well not painted yet but still)

So the bug which spawned the idea of this list, Lactrodectus Hasselti - the red back spider

Here are my conversions for Tervigons, there are no models for these yet (for those who don't know) so here are my conversions for them, One of my past posts has all the artwork for them. There are two models shown here. I used perspex for the bases cut into circles the size of a cd (it has the same diameter as the long edge of a trygon base) this has it's advantages sometimes, but mostly I find it can get in the way for movement, it's just a huge base on most maps! But I feel it fits the feel of how big it's supposed to be, so I'm happy

I used the Carnifex kit and lots of green stuff/milliput (an epoxy putty). If anyone is interested in the nuts and bolts of how I did it, I'd be happy to write it up

Lactrodectus Hasselti 1

 I'm particularly proud of the little guy who is in the middle of being birthed :D

 And a side on piccy

 this is the second one, a bit longer but pretty similar

 And another side on

The Rainbow snake appears

Named after the Rainbow snake form aboriginal myth, Woonambi comes forth (it's a Trygon, just in case that wasn't obvious :P)

So one of them was fully magnetised, one done in the standard pose and one was converted to be leaping forward

Magnetised with nothing

 

Magnetised kitted out as a Trygon

 Standard Pose

Leaping forward, front on

 

Leaping forward side on 

Wow, long time off......

So I've been away for a while helping my parents out (they had a house fire) but I managed to get some hobby time in there while I was away, just haven't been able to put anything up, so here comes a barage of posts with the stuff I've been working on... enjoy!

Sneak Peak at Lactrodectus Hasselti - Tervigon conversion

Hello. So one of the next beasties I'm making is a Tervigon, sort of like a giant walking incubator. the difficulty is that, although there are rules for using said beasty, there are no models relased by Games Workshop as of yet. So I thought I'd make one :D. As to what it's supposed to look like we have one picture and a bit of a description officially, however there are a heap of ideas on the net. Here is my guy so far, still a work in progress but coming along quite nicely I think

Oh by the way Lactrodectus Hasselti is the red back spider. I figured a giant spider like creature walking across the battle and giving birth to hundreds of little gribblies fit the red back quite nicely :D

This is the official artwork I'm going from

 

Here is my effort so far. The little man next to him is a Space marine (for those who don't know) and is supposed to be a genetically enhanced human and over 8 foot tall :D

Gangurru unleashed - Tyranid (Warrior) Prime Conversion

Here is Gangurru (sound it out or google it to find out which animal he is :P). For those of you who don't know the Warrior Prime is the leader of the army and is supposed to be heavily armed and armoured. So I took the normal box set warrior and added some more armour over the chest plate and used some green stuff (moddeling clay that sets hard) to make some weapons. I also magnetised the arms so that he can have different sets of weapons. Enjoy

The Box artwork

The Lash Whips - quite complex to make as the party was soft, I held it in place while it dried with bent paper clips :D

And here is the finished Prime with Lash whips, Bone sword and Deathspitter (gun) 

And again with scything talons and deathspitter(gun). Notice the chest plate is different from the artwork. I added this because he is supposed to be more armoured then your average warrior. This is actually a Trygon groin plate that I cut up a bit, fit well actually

Malo Kingi is born - Venomthrope Conversion

Malo Kingi, the scientific name for one of the most poisonous jellyfish in Australia and the world. I thought this was perfect for the Venomthrope who floats around the battlefield on gas bladders and excretes clouds of the most potent poison known in the 40k universe. In addition it has lash whips (tentacles!!)

official GW artwork

The Sprue

Unpainted finish

All comments welcome

Nullius Emerges

Exams are finally over and so now we get down to the assempbly of Hive Fleet Nullius

I will be posting up pictures soon (hopefully tomorrow) But here it is:

Hive Fleet Nullius


Hive Fleet Nullius was names after Terra Nullius (Australia) after some imperial scouts noted the similariteis in appearance to some of the flora and fauna :P

I am pretty keen when it comes to conversions and I've got some high hopes/ideas so far, let's see how far they go....
Things to look forward to/the army so far:

Warrior prime - complete with magnetised arms
16 Genestealers + Broodlord
2 Tervigons - conversions from carnifex's
3 Trygons - one with the box pose and the other two with a more dynamic one - wait with anticipation!
1 Doom of Malan'tai - Warrior conversion with a whole heap of green stuff
3 Spore mines - complete green stuff creations - will be fun to do
3 Venomthropes - some fun ideas for postures
3 Hive Guard - don't think i'll do much conversion with these guys, there's nothing much to do
and a whole heap of termagants- again probably won't bother with conversions to much

As to the colour scheme I am planning black hide with red carapase - think the Red-back spider :D, silver eyes, purple tinge to hide, blue/purple weapons. You'll see more when I get to painting

that's all for now, let the saga begin.....