I've been hanging around here for a while now and I thought it was about time I pulled my finger out and got an army sorted. I've been really inspired by the talent regularly on display around here so I thought I'd start a thread to keep me motivated.
Long story short, I've got a whole pile of Tyranids (among other things) waiting to see some paint and I will being starting a TOEG thread soon. That said, it's the big monsters that really caught my eye with this army. After seeing WarmasterNice's excellent tyranid force from a while back, along with the work of plenty of others, I thought I'd try my hand at something I've not seen before - a 6mm tervigon.
I decided to use a 40k genestealer body as the base with hormagaunt legs, talons and head to make up the other parts.
So it started out like this:
and this:
Add some cutting and gluing and a couple of paperclips and I've got it this far:
Next steps are probably to cover the wire in green stuff and add the "feet" using the tips of the hormagaunt talons. I'm really not sure about the head though - it just looks too big. Obviously, it's just blu tacked in place now to get a better feel for how it will look but still, it doesn't look quite right. I plan on greenstuffing the carapace and adding a "hood" but I think I might end up using a ripper head - I've just picked up some from forgeworld so that won't be a problem...
So that's it - I haven't scratch built in this scale for pushing 20 years now, and then it was probably adding modelling clay missile racks to rhinos to make whirlwinds, but I fairly pleased with where this is going. C+C gratefully received...
