This could work, perhaps? (Second-to-last picture is the best.)

http://forkbanger.wordpress.com/tag/googly-eyes/

Definitely the way forward!

Multi-eyes?

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No eyes!
Howsabout a more elongated head with the 'fleshy' chitin undeneath a smooth or plated 'shell' on the top' kind of like a cross between a Giger xenomorph and a GW bug?

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People interpret eyes as a humanizing element. They connote empathy. I think about the classically "alien" creatures, and most have weird eyes. On B5, the shadows had rows of tiny glowing eyes on their carapaces. The vorlon encounter suits, meanwhile, had a head-like stalk with a single huge camera eye. It was alien but also expressive and somewhat humanizing. Giger's aliens are another example. People tend to anthropomorphize objects and beings they interact with, given even the slightest provocation, like seeing a face in the front end of a car. So I think the goal in horrifying people is either to not give them any visual cues to empathize with, or to give them false cues that disturb them.

Anyway, just a thought.

Why has everyone got a problem with eyes on these bugs i mean after all the bugs from 40k all have eyes don't they?

If eyes are dropped from the models then they would not fit in with what most people would want to use these for. IMHO

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Those eyes don't look good.

Perhaps try compound eyes, like them having a sticky out hemispherical eye on each side and close too it'd have a regular pattern of circular bumps (as small and close as possible as casting allows).

I like those.

To be honest this version exposes the real problem for me is not the eyes but the whole shape of the head/mouth - like the biovore its too fat and wide to give the viscous predator look. if i imagine something dinosaury, lizardy or insectiod on that body it looks good but at the moment it looks too cute-ugly... Think it would be worth looking for some realworld predator inspiration/rip off.

The "nostrils" and "smiley face" of the jaws do make it hard to feel fearful of them (from the neck forwards).

Rob

I don't care for the heads or the rear legs. They both convey cute far more than they should. I concur that they should be more giger or potentially more like these.

http://chapterhousestudios.com/index.ph ... uct_id=215

I like these eyes

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I'm not a huge bug fan, so take my unlikely to buy opinion witha grain of salt, but I like Lotus' suggestion of the somewhat octopoid/cthulhu style heads. Gives a wonderful sense of wrong that a lot of bug type minis just don't achieve.

Those Cthulhu-oid heads are actually a very good spot - might be worth taking them in an deep sea direction just to see if it works. It would certainly be a unique look for a force...