hive ship, adepticon 2014

[gigasnail]

how in the nine hells has this not been posted here?

www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/601345-.html

[fnorrll]

What a brilliant idea

[Deathnid]

Holy mother of god!that is amazing!

[tylertt]

This other one of a Tyranid swarm shown crawling underground to sneak up on some Tau is actually so sick.

www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/601323-.html?m=2

[Obsidorox]

The two of those are pretty awesome. I love that dual layer diorama.

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[eskimo]

Nuts. Sheer commitment there.

[abrahamlleida]

wow! it looks really cool!!

[maeloke]

Here's another shot of it:


Big and cool. Color scheme of the swarm and lack of detail on the ship makes it all seem a bit cartoonish to me, though.

[monkeychuka]

Brilliant! Is the ship on a stand or tethered? If its filled with helium and actually floats around then I'll wet myself.

[maeloke]

That capillary tower and milky digestion pool is actually a large base. The helium fill is a pretty hilarious idea, but I can't think of any way material that would have that crisp of detail but still be light enough to float.

[NidNoms]

HOLY (please do not swear)!!!

[fnorrll]

Thing is i cant see any wires suspending it and thats a small column to carry it on. But yeah it also looks kinda heavy for helium

[maeloke]

Central column of the pillar is actually metal, so it's plenty sturdy for a big foam hive ship. Apparently the clear feed tube winding around it actually had bubbles running up to the ship... sweet little detail that doesn't show in the photos.

[Hunger]

I don't like the hive ship - as maeloke said, the lack of detailing lets it down. Also, the scaling just doesn't make any sense to my pernickety sensibilities. That column should be ten storeys high, if capillary towers were conceptually possible even at all.

I do like the dual layer board though, and built one for a friend once. City on top, sewers underneath. It was great fun to play on - we had supports like the rocky pillars in the image, and there were access points to the city above in the form of ladders and sewer manholes.

[coredump]

yeah, the ship itself seems like a missed opportunity of being stupid crazy awesome.

OTOH, from what I can tell, the *rest* of the diorama is pretty cool, but you cant tell because the photo's are so far away to get the hive ship in the picture. Would like to get some decent pics of the rest of the board.