Stinger 'T Nids' Battle Report

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With my 'T Nids' potentially being the only 5th Edition list that would still work in 6th, I thought I would give it a go in this game against Blood Angels. I did make a few tweaks to the list as I can't see any point keeping Adrenal Glands on the Trygons anymore, there is now no initiative bonus with them and they have the smash ability anyway!

Stinger 'T Nids'

HQ 
1 x Tervigon/Toxin sacs (175)

TROOPS
1x Tervigon/Adrenal glands/Toxin Sacs/Catalyst (195)
1x Tervigon/Adrenal glands/Toxin Sacs/Catalyst (195)
1x Tervigon/Adrenal glands/Toxin Sacs/Catalyst (195)
10 x Termagants (50)
10 x Termagants (50)
10 x Termagants (50) 

ELITES 
1x Venomthropes (55)
1x Venomthropes (55)
1 x Doom of Malan’tai/Mycetic Spore (130)

HEAVY SUPPORT

1x Trygon (200)
1x Trygon (200)
1x Trygon (200)

1750 Points

 

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Old Stuff Day 2012 Tervigon Conversion Still Valid?

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For this years Old stuff Day post, I went through last years posts and found this one that didn't get any comments at the time. It is pictures of my completed Tervigon and Spawn marker conversion, but now that the new Tervigon kit is out, is it still valid? I based it on the large oval base, and it's about two inches shorter than a Trygon! I was thinking of using it as a HQ Tervy, and then the new models as Troops Tervies to distinguish them, but is it still valid! What do you think? 

Here are a few pictures of my now completed first Stinger Hive Fleet Tervigon and Spawn Marker, hope you like him...

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Thunderwolves and Tervigons at last!

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Well, Finally they are here. Thunderwolves for my 13th Comapny...

More Tervigons for my Stinger Hive Fleet...

I will probably need the Swarmlord as well then...

Other models coming our way will be the Tyranofex and Harpy, nice models but I don't think I need them...

And I have my Fenrisian Wolves already, not as dynamic, but they will do...

It's my Birthday in March and I was going to get Ghost Arcs, but now what to choose?

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Bringing the broods to life - Tervigon and Spawn Marker

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Here are a few pictures of my now completed first Stinger Hive Fleet Tervigon and Spawn Marker, hope you like him...

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Tervigon Project Complete

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In my last Tervigion Green stuff post, I had already made the basics of the birthing sack and one extra centre spine, for my first eBay Carnifex based Tervigon conversion. I have now completed the other two spines, added some extra detail to the birthing sack and made some bigger shoulder sockets for the arms, so that they stand away from the body a bit more. I then started to glue and pin the arms and feet to the body...

 

Long time followers will remember that I have a box of magnetic rocks in my possession, that I have never used, and I am now very pleased to have finally found a use for them. I glued a Termagant to one of the rocks and have it magnetised to the base. He will sit on the base until the Tervie is constipated, and then I can remove it as a marker that it can't spawn anymore. Added bonus will be that I can then magnetise it to a normal base and have an extra Gant...

Not bad for only £12.00 and a bit of green stuff...

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Tervigon Project - Green Stuff

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I ended my first Tervigon post with me using Blu-Tack, as stand in, removable green stuff, to get a feel for what the end result might look like. Since then I have stripped down the eBay purchased Carnifex using Dettol, It was well covered in thick paint and gloss varnish, but after three days of soaking, most of it came off.

I then got to work with the 'green stuff', I know it's not really green stuff as I have just started using Gale Force Nine's equivalent 'grey stuff', which is a lot more economic, but after ten years I find it hard to break the habit of saying green stuff. First I started working on the Spawning sack, bearing in mind that this model was originally posed in a way that I decided to make the sack more closed, as such. I have plans to make my next Tervie upright with an open sack and more of the Termagant visible, but this is how I ended up doing this one...

It's pretty basic at the moment and I plan on adding some more detail to it later, I am thinking along the lines of tendrils or something. At this stage though, I was more curious to see if I could make a green stuff 'spine' to go down the middle, like the picture in the Codex...

After a lot of fiddling around and trying to make it out of one piece, I ended up folding a flat piece of green stuff in half and joining it together at the edges so that I got the basic shape for the hole section at the top, I then shaped it as near as I could the original...

Now I need to make two more...

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Tervigon Project

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With my good old Carnifex model currently filling in for a Tervigon, I thought it was about time I let it be a Carnifex again, and make myself a Tervigon model. I will need to make it on a bit of a budget, and with my Carnifexes being the old school models, it seemed obvious to me that the current Carnifex sprue would make a great base for a Tervigon conversion...

First stop, was to check out eBay for a cheap Fex. I managed to get one for £12.00, which I thought was quite reasonable considering it had magnetised talons. As it turns out, the magnetised talons were very poorly done, as you can see from the pictures below, but that's OK, as I am going to change it about anyway...

The Tervigon picture in the Codex clearly shows it with two back legs and four Scything talons, and that is what I decided to base my model around. I wanted to use the old school talons so that it would match into the rest of my army a bit better. I wasn't aiming for my Tervigon to be too fancy, I just wanted to run with the description and picture in the Codex.

Using Blu-Tack as stand in, removable green stuff, I got to work on the basic pose of the model and mocked up a swollen abdomen, with a Termagant being spawned out of it...

Ideally, I would like to have the third set of spines in the middle of the model like in the picture, but buying the spine sections by themself seems to be a bit expensive. I could of course try and green stuff them up, but I don't know how well I could do that...

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