About the GeeDubs Swarmy....

[nikh]

I get this is a pretty irrelevant topic since he's a paperweight unit at this point, but does anyone else just straight up HATE the model for the Swarmlord? Those bone sabres are just pitifully tiny, and the fact that he has a sword coming out of his face just baffles me. Here's mine, four boneswords, a second smaller blade on his head instead of an entire (please do not swear) sword, Predator mandibles and grey stuff over his eyes, I was going for that whole "blind samurai" thing. I'd like to see the rest of the Hive's Swarmys, since literally anything is better than the GeeDubs model. 


 

[gigasnail]

the saber models are kind of derpy. much prefer the beefy swords.

[nikh]

I only got ahold of them because I bought a box of bits on eBay, and my first instinct was that they were intended for Warriors. However, there were Warrior boneswords in the box as well and I realized oh, the Swarmlord really is charging into combat with butterknives, guess the new rules make sense after all.

[tripwire]

I love this model, top to bottom!

-trip

[fnorrll]

Are those all metal swords from the old tyrant kit?

[nikh]

The left two are metal, the right ones are resin ones I bought off eBay a few years back, I honestly don't know where they came from.

[nikh]

May 2, 2015 3:15:36 GMT tripwire said:

I love this model, top to bottom!

-trip

Thanks! Maybe one day he'll get a coat of paint.

[Freeman]

Mine's a big lad.

He's quite a bit taller as I packed out his midriff with milliput. Also as you can see I made him some meatier scabres out of plasticard.



He's quite a lot older than the current model so I was stuck with designing my own.

[jaigo]

Well done. I like the blades on that as the shieldguard pommels.

For mine I used the forgeworld tyrant
Got my hands on one when I bought a small bit of nids 2nd hand.
I love the more sleek and agile look. And the head is great.
I actualy went for the sabres to enhance the agility look and for me it deserves the invul in cc.

[nikh]

Love the Old One Eye head on Swarmy, and also that FW model with the bone sabres looks awesome, don't have to imagine hard to picture it being a CC nightmare.

[Freeman]

Th FW tyrant is a stunning model. I'll post men up in the morning.

[munchy2x2]

I also didn't like the smaller sabres, but my real gripe is with the unanimated pose all the walkrants are in by default. Although a bit unfluffy, wings allowed me to create some real movement in the static model as well as easily proxy this otherwise paperweight model as a melee flyrant.
i.imgur.com/74bSa1U.jpg

[gigasnail]

nice pose.

[munchy2x2]

thank you :3

[tarrasque]

Excellent conversion! I love it when people add their own twist to the Swarmlord, however, I honestly like the Swarmlord model. He's never steered me wrong! Well... Visually....