My custom Old one eye

[iyama]

sorry I didnt take any photo's as I made this one, he was kinda half finished before I realised
As always, opinions are greatly oppreciated

[danielhayman]

I love it :0
Those arms -- daaayumm

[fnorrll]

I love it too! especially like how you have tried to just update the old model...similar posing and head etc. excellent work

[DinoCop]

He looks pretty pised I really like him

+ really nice paint job, I´d like to see them on battlefield. Just few pictures when battling enemy

[danielhayman]

Did OOE have mandibles ?

[swarmy]

Those crushing claws mean business! Very nice work. Very fitting for a character who's main draw is crushing claws. He's got to do some maneuvering around himself to get those scything talons up over those hulking forelimbs in a fight

[Phenious]

Very nice OOE. I love those claws ever since I saw the Tut on how to make them but never have tried to make them. Not really had a reason. OOE is a cool looking bug but what I have heard is really not good in a game setting. Seems a lot of our codex is that way. . *sad Face*

[zplazma]

I like him I've done a similar conversion myself, I put up a post on here like 10 days ago. Nice to see other people still love the one eyed old fella

[iyama]

Mar 15, 2012 13:00:07 GMT danielhayman said:

Did OOE have mandibles ?

yes he did on the old model, I kinda forgot about those till you just mentioned it

Mar 15, 2012 15:23:17 GMT Phenious said:

Very nice OOE. I love those claws ever since I saw the Tut on how to make them but never have tried to make them. Not really had a reason. OOE is a cool looking bug but what I have heard is really not good in a game setting. Seems a lot of our codex is that way. . *sad Face*

He is both good and bad depending how you look at him?
I played this model for the first time last night against space wolves and he did pretty awesome. I managed to get a fair few rounds of 8 attacks thanks to the crushing claws, and the berserk rampage allowing a second roll for ever achieved roll to hit meant I was hitting things between 8-16 times at strength 10!
the only let down I feel he really has is his regeneration.

there are 2 ways of looking at this, firstly the old way is that you didnt need to roll to gain a wound, he just got one back automatically at the end of each tyranid turn, no rolls needed, but only 1 wound per turn to a maximum of 4 wounds. in the current rules you roll dice for however many wounds are missing and can potentially gain all wounds back in one go, but this needs a 5+ to regenerate. Now for a character that is supposed to have awesome regenerative powers and costing 260 pts, I'd personally like to see this either made a 4+ or back to 1 at the end of each tyranid turn automatically.

the other small drawback to OOE is that he can no longer get back up if killed on a 4+ at the end of the next tyranid turn, which again I think is a great shame personally.

lastly his alpha leader came in handy yesterday when my synaps was broken after my tyrant and zoanthropes were killed, he passed his leadership value to my hive guard and got them back into the fight.

[Phenious]

One day I will try him in a for fun game, he is alot of points but then I love rolling the swarmlord. Will have to play with every giggles unit choice eventually just to try them out.

[Hive Carnithrope]

Wow. Is THAT the size of the official model? It NEEDS an update.

Awesome conversion. Very beefy... damn. Now I'm hungry...

[Braddon]

Way better than the original. Nice job. :]

[Synaptic Scourge]

Very nice work, he looks great.

I'm really not a fan of many of the sculpt choices they went with for 3rd edition.

[t⊗theark]

Cool conversion. I love the arms on that thing.

[Xantige]

I love this! Someone needs to make a tutorial on how to make this model, the GW one is in bad need of a PROPER update, not just a move to finecast . This is awesome dude!