Fire in the hole |
Saturday 28 December 2013
Endocrine?
Work on the Exocrine conversion continues. I decided to call mine an Endocrine. Possibly because I'm feeling hormonal. I had a lot of fun building the gun (bio-cannon? I don't even know what they're called yet) which is a heavily kit bashed Tyrannofex Rupture Cannon. The stickman arms were less fun. Scratch building with Grey Stuff is interesting but its a bit like clay and difficult to do sharp edges well. Its easier to just use bits of old models for spikey bits or carve the dried resin into the desired shape.
Tuesday 24 December 2013
Stickman Exocrine
Well, the Hormagaunts are languishing in hobby torpor. I have been compulsively viewing Bell of Lost Souls and The Tyranid Hive forums for scraps of rumours about the Nid release in January. There aren't even that many, just rehashes of models already leaked and endless speculation. Its embarrasing really, but I kind of wish Christmas would just go away so that "Niduary" (as the forums call it) can arrive. It doesn't help that I'm working all over the festive season and on out-of-hours support.
Exocrine next to a Tyrannofex. Thanks to The Tyranid Hive for this |
Friday 13 December 2013
Out with the old, in with the new
I started getting caught up in the hype surrounding the forthcoming Tyranid release. There are so many different and sometimes conflicting rules postings that it all becomes white noise and I try to just look at the pictures. I decided to dig out my conversions for comparison. If the price of the models is anything like the rumours portend then I'll be using my 'counts as' for some time to come.
Size does matter. But so does price. |
Wednesday 11 December 2013
Mo Gribblies
Monday 9 December 2013
Bringing a knife to a gunfight
I pulled out my box of poor, neglected Hormagaunts today. They were the first Nid models I bought and I've always had a soft spot for them. They were only used (disastrously) in a couple of games where I quickly realised that fielding a brood of 12 just wasn't enough. I bought more, but I never even finished building them all. Shame on me.
I need to spend some serious hobby time with these poor wee fellas |
Saturday 7 December 2013
The trouble with Zoats
Karl down at the club gave me some ancient GW models the other week (I now yearn to build 'old school' Necrons). Amongst them was a metal miniature called a 'Zoat'. I had never heard of Zoats before but he assured me that they were the forerunners of the Tyranid race. I was intrigued.
What the hell is it? |
Wednesday 4 December 2013
Nailed it
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