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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas...  Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 5:30 am |
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| Quote (MaksimSmelchak @ 06 2005 May,18:15) | | I found a guy who gave me a ton of Kruthik Hatchlings. Yeah! ? |
Maksim scores! 
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:02 am |
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:21 pm |
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The Nids are amongst us! Well, admittedly, they're only 13cm long, and they live in ocean depths of around 1000m off California. Anyone ever heard of Vampyroteuthis infernalis? Even the name is promising! I've just seen a documentary on it, and the way it can change shape is amazing - it can fold its hood all round its body and switch on a pair of luminous organs at its rear which resemble eyes. When a predator approaches, it constricts covers ober these organs so that the eyes appear to get smaller - or to be moving away! - confusing the predator. Another trick is to release a mass of phosphorescent particles when it flees, to confuse predators - now if that isn't the old WWII 'Window' trick for confusing radar..... 
Here he is:
Vampyroteuthis infernalis
Not a spore - unless you could see him with his mantle folded over (!) - but inspiring.
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:01 pm |
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EPIC SYNAPSE NODE
Hi all,
here's my very first Epic Tyranid conversion attempt - a very simple Synapse node (a pair, actually). 
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:06 pm |
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EPIC SYNAPSE NODES
The bits used are large round WH40K bases; the bases of 2 of the trees from the 40K jungle tree sprues set; and 3 of the smallest ring-shaped bits of trunk connectors from the same sprues. The latter fit nicely in the top 'crater' of the former; the tree bases are glued to the model bases. Paint was a simple French (or UM) blue coat, with drybrushing to taste, heavy chestnut wash, and further slight drybrushing. The ring of rubble around the nodes was PVA-glued pepper; the static grass was added in a second round of PVA. Matt varnish spray all round, and they're done.
Note to self - the tree bases make good island volcanoes for Man O'War! 
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:21 pm |
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:55 am |
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I very much like how they turned out. 
One of the gifts some people have is the ability to see something else when looking at bits. I mean, I have those in my bits box and did not even think of it.
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:18 am |
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Very Nice, BUGZ ! And yes "Window" or chaff is metal strips dropped from an aircraft to mess up the Radar ...
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:48 am |
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Thanks guys.
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:37 am |
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Weird.. they gave a documentary on the Vampyroteuthis a few days ago in Italy on RAI 1..... maybe it was exactly two days ago.... were you looking at it? If not, then the simultaneous broadcast is obviously part of an insidious cult attempt to infiltrate Earth....
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Post subject: Nid Proxy: Myecetic Spore Ideas... Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:54 am |
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| Quote (Magnus @ 04 2005 July,11:37) | | Weird.. they gave a documentary on the Vampyroteuthis a few days ago in Italy on RAI 1..... maybe it was exactly two days ago.... were you looking at it? If not, then the simultaneous broadcast is obviously part of an insidious cult attempt to infiltrate Earth.... |
Rest assured Magnus - we get RAI 1 in Malta, and that was it. Relief!
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