Tyranid Basiton

[SotonShades]

Looking awesome mate. Are you going to do a weapon or comms relay for the top, similar to your aegis line?

[dwez]

The current Quad Gun would fit in the smaller tower, it just manages it with the sculpting. I may be looking to create a comms relay too, I like the idea of +1 to my reserve roll, particularly when my opponents Warlord Trait is -1 to it. I think I'll make it out of spare Venom Cannon barrels, my mate Otty did something similar for objective markers. I hate the Venom Cannon design as a weapon but I like it as a vertical Tyranid terrain piece

[dwez]

I've 'iced the cake' with some tile adhesive/grout, next up sand it back for a decent base to sculpt on.





[url]http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/nids-part-84-tyranid-bastion-growth-pt5.html[/url]

[dwez]

The next step was to sand the 'icing' back so I could have a nice base to put my sculpting on top of. Admittedly this doesn't seem a huge amount of progress [that's the next step] but effort now really helps later on.



Here's the sketch that helped me position the fire points and emplaced weapons



Which I then transferred onto the model itself so I can see where I'm going to sculpt and what I have to cut back into the model



More pictures and info at the blog:

[url]http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/nids-part-85-tyranid-bastion-growth-pt6.html[/url]

[dwez]

here' we go folks, some proper sculpting. These are the bits that will be Bonewhite.



All done with DAS air drying clay, which was fun to use and cheap



However I think there are paper fibres in it somehow which makes it slightly less durable than Milliput, with a bit of effort I can sratch the surface with my nail, but it should be durable enough. I also smoothed out some of the interiors of the Capillary Towers, ripe for their fleshy fibre bundles



Now going back to the original concept it's quite close, if a little taller than what I had in mind [which actually I was desparate to avoid but hopefully the Capillary Towers will help it fill out at the base to taper more]



More pics and info here:

[url]http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/nids-part-86-tyranid-bastion-growth-pt7.html[/url]

[dwez]

Although it'll be a while yet before this is an actual update it's just taken me 30 minutes to paint the turquoise striations on one Chitin plate on the Bastion, not one Capillary tower, just one plate on one tower! There are 20 plates in total, although it was the largest one. I may be some time...

Meanwhile, next update on Friday.

[dwez]

After bigging up today's progress I hope I do not disappoint, so what do you think?



"A sphincter says what?"



I don't know how I managed this divine or perhaps corrupt influence from the warp



Oh, and here's how the gribblies get into their new home



So did I do good?

As ever, more waffle and some explanation of how I managed it [or guesswork in this instance, I think I was 'auto-sculpting'] on the blog:

[url]http://40kaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/nids-part-87-tyranid-bastion-growth-pt8.html[/url]

[KINGS]

Very cool. How durable/heavy is it? I have never used that type of sculpting clay before but it looks like it is pretty nice to work with on large surfaces. My only concern is will it hold up to the riggers of the battle field.

Also that thing on top is gross haha!

[dwez]

Very cool. How durable/heavy is it? I have never used that type of sculpting clay before but it looks like it is pretty nice to work with on large surfaces. My only concern is will it hold up to the riggers of the battle field.

Also that thing on top is gross haha!

Good questions, completed weight is 960g according to my kitchen scales. As for durability I'm confident it will survive the battlefield no problems.

The only real concerns would be if I dropped it, I've no idea what would happen then and also how to transport the damn thing. I expect to take it to Warhammer World the next time I attend a tournament and I also imagine I'll be giving it a few test runs beforehand but I'll probably revert to a less awkward list once it's served it's purpose. Hmm, what a waste of effort!

[SotonShades]

very gorey, spot on.