Hey all,
With the advent of the new codex, and the still awesome biovores, combined with the even more awesome Spore mines clusters (great way of forcing your opponent out of an area, or forcing them to dedicate units to shooting them) I've been wondering how to get my mitts on LOTS of the funky things (I'm a big fan of spawn swarm lists).
We had that article recently and it sorts seemed redundant given that you still required a spore mine to do the conversion, so I sat down the other day and mucked around, ended up with a nice little method of banging our lots of nice unique sporemines quickly and cheaply.
It's so easy, and I'm so happy with the results that I figured I had to share.
STEP 1
Roll some greenstuff into a small ball, the sizes are up to you but I'd recommend to aim for approximately the size of a SM helmet. Allow it to dry for around 30-40 mins
STEP 2
Next roll out a number of long sausages of greensstuff, tapper the ends off to form long thin cones, they should aim to be around 2-3 mm thick at widest points and as long you want, varying between SM height and shorter.
STEP 3
Glue a piece of wire to the original ball, then take the "tentacles" one at a time and stick them to the underside of the balls. Twirl and arrange them around the supporting wire.
STEP 4
Using a pointed tool, press it gently into the base of each tentacle and drag them down and out, creating a stretched effect.