More Tyrannocytes Showcase

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Two more Tyrannocyte Conversions painted and ready to join my Stinger Hive Fleet...

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Hive Guard Conversions Done

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It's been a long time coming, but I have finally got around to making myself some Hive Guard! These three guys we converted from Warriors with some Carnifex backs and a few other bits I had. I am really happy how they came out, I even magnetised the front of the gun to give me the two gun options. Can't wait to get them painted and finally be able to play Hive Guard without having to proxy Warriors for them!

 

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Broodlord Conversion!

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Although the new Broodlord mini is awesome, I already have one in the set pose the model comes with. No ball and socket joints and a fixed head is a slight downside to the mini, but I am really happy with what I came up with. Rotating the mini so that he stands on the spine in the opposite direction was a good starting point and allowed for me to go for this leaping pose. Lots of green stuff in all the joints and a shorter tongue also helped change him up. Let me know if you like him!
 

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Tyrannocyte Conversion Showcase

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Here is my painted conversion of turning my old Mycetic Spores into a Tyrannocyte. I am really happy how it turned out and I think it will be very playable on the table. This is just the first of eight pods I have, so lots more conversion to go yet!

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Tyrannocyte Conversion Finished

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Here is my final conversion to turn my old Mycetic Spores into a Tyrannocyte. It isn't too far off the original model now, so hopefully I won't get any complaints. Let me know what you think and I will will get it painted up soon...

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Tyrannocyte Conversion (part 2)

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Following on from my first post of converting up my old Pods to look like the new model, and I have done some more work on the tentacles on the base. I plan on painting the tentacles black with yellow tips, so to give me some extra colour to them I added a few dots for me to also paint yellow...

I then started work on the guns, cutting off the front sections of some Death Spitters and Barbed Stranglers I had. Adding magnets to the ends. I then made some green stuff sockets on the pod for the guns to fit into...

Hopefully these will look pretty cool once I have them painted up, and I plan on making a Venom Canon option as well...

Here is how it is looking at the moment. I am going to add a few tentacles to the sides at the bottom to finish it off. I think I will magnetise these on as well to keep storage problems to a minimal. More to come in the next update...

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Tyrannocyte Conversion (part 1)

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I have been spending some time lately converting up my old Mega Blok Mycetic Spores into the new Tyrannocytes. I have eight of these pods, and I want to convert up at least four of them, but first of all I need to work out how to do it!

First off all I got some 100mm bases from eBay, £4.00 for six, so not too bad at all. I then got myself a plastic tube, which was from the inside of a finished paper roll (till roll). I then glued the tube to the base and started work on some green stuff. I don't have a tentacle maker, so it was the old fashioned rolling on a table for me. I plan on revisiting them again and adding in a bit of detail, but I think they look pretty good as they are...

For storage reasons, I wanted to magnetise the pod on, rather than gluing it, and in the end, this also dictated me not putting tentacles onto the pod itself, well, that and I didn't want to have to repaint anything. One magnet in the rod and some green stuff to give me some support with a magnet on the base of the pod, and that was that bit done...

Now all I have to do is work out how to add on some guns and maybe a top section. Updates on that soon, but for now, this is how it is looking so far...

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How to Magnetise a Tyranid Harpy/Hive Crone

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I know I am a bit late to the party with this, but here is a magnetising tutorial I did for my recent Harpy/Hive Crone build. In this video I show you how to magnetise the two heads, all the arms, the two wings and the four tenticlids. I hope you find it useful...

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Trygon to Mawloc Conversion

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In preparation for finishing my challenge to paint my unpainted Tyranid minis by the end of the year. I have managed to come up with a way to convert my totally glued together Trygon Prime, into and interchangeable Mawloc and Trygon! Sadly, I forgot to take any pictures of him before I started painting it, so here is a video I made over on my YouTube Channel, showing you the conversion in detail...

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How to Magnetise a Tyranid Toxicrene/Maleceptor

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Welcome to this tutorial on how to magnetise the Tyranid Toxicrene/Maleceptor dual kit from Games Workshop. In this tutorial I have used 5x1mm magnets that I got from my local hobby store, these magnets are also available on eBay. The only parts that really need to be magnetised are the two head and arm options, so lets do this...

First, I glued a magnet onto a small piece of plasticard, and then green stuffed this peice inside the body as pictures below. The next stage will have to be done whilst the green stuff is wet, so don't just stick this piece in place and leave it to dry...

Next, glue a magnet onto the Maleceptor head, and position the head onto the body. With the green stuff in the body still wet, you can then adjust the plasticard so that the head fits perfectly. When it is dry, put some green stuff into the hole on the Toxicrene head, and glue a magnet into it. With this section wet and the green stuff on the body dry, you can then adjust the magnet on the second head to make it also fit perfectly...

Right, now to the arms, just cut off a section at the top of the arms so that you can fit a magnet to it like this...

To stop the tentacled arms of the Toxicrene from dropping forward, just add a little pin next to the magnet, lining it up with the body with another small hole. Then just add a magnet to the joint on the body as pictures next...

That's it, all done, but if you want to see me magnetise this in more detail, I also made a video here...

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