Hive Fleet Noctifer

[Xenothios]

Seeing as there has been interest in seeing my conversions and such, I'm finally getting off my butt to show some of the stuff I've done for my bugs! My army is an aesthetic mix of tyranids, xenomorph, and the zerg along with a few custom modifications because I hate the way it looks when 'nids hold guns/weapons. Not everything has been painted to completion yet, so there's gonna be some base colors, green stuff, and plastic on some of these. I use a gloss finish on the harder carapace because I wanted them to have a more bug-like feel and used it for anything that would be wet, like mouths or orifices.

Starting off, warriors!

This first image has a few of my melee warriors. The one on the left has a converted lashwhip+Bonesword in which the lashwhip is the spikey xenomorph tail I've given it.
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These are my ranged warriors. The ones on the left and right are dev/deathspitters and the center is a venom cannon
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Spores!

These are my spore mines, up in the front are banelings that I also use as counts-as banelings
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Mucolid/Meiotic spores (i.e. counts-as mucolids)
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and these are my counts-as biovores, made to look like zerg spore crawlers
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Elites!

Zoanthropes, I tried painting them to look like they had glowy protoss/zerg hybrid style coloration.
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My venomthrope, his other two brothers are not quite as painted as he.


This is my counts-as lictor/deathleaper. He's sculpted to look like the monstrosity that the Zerg character Abathur creates in Heroes of the Storm.

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I disliked the way the stock genestealers looked, so they probably got some of the most modifications.

Broodlord, he actually got very little modification. I smoothed over his eyes with greenstuff to bring him in line with the xenomorph motif and since his pinky finger broke off and got lost, I replaced it with something hand-made to look like it had been blown off and was barely hanging on with bone and sinew


One of my xenomorph/genestealers, I've got all of mine done up this way


since they're not magnetized, I'm creating a small 5-man brood+broodlord of scytal-less genestealers. This is the broodlord, his base is magnetized to fit on his terminator base should I choose to use him as a broodlord and not a regular genestealer

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Gaunts, these guys get a TON of work to them. I can only claim that I have 10 completely finished.

Hormagaunts, these guys are converted up to look like zerglings! I chopped up their arms to give them the right shape and added little mandible/horns on the sides of their heads.
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These are my termagaunts. I couldn't stand the way they looked holding their fleshborers so I mounted them on their back and casted little greenstuff scytals to put in their arm sockets. Thanks to the zergling apperance of the hgaunts and the mounted guns, there isn't any mistaking these for them.
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Big stuff!

This is my Exocrene, I put a green LED in the barrel so that it lights up. It adds a little bit of character to it while it blasts ap2 at those pesky marines. The head/arms are magnetized so if I'm feeling particularly tired of making my points back, I can turn it into a haruspex and let it lumber around on the battlefield.
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This is my Tyrannofex. He's magnetized so the scytals can become crushing claws, the head can get swapped out, the birthing sac can get clipped on, and the gun can be swapped out for either a acid spray (or in the tervigon's case, miasma cannon) or the stock carapace to represent no gun.
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My beautiful swarmlord. He's not quite done being painted yet, but the magnetized swarmlord parts are (boneswords/head). Seeing as swarmlords are one of the few "unique" nids with an actual sense of identity, I've dubbed him "The Witching Hour", to go along with the attack from darkness/night theme of my army.
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This is my tyrannocyte, he's magnetized so that the bottom part can come off and magnetically stick to the base for when I use him as a sporocyst. The guns can also be swapped out but honestly, there's not much of a point to running the deathspitters though I do like the bigger plate size of the stranglethorns.
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These are just some of the scatter terrain I use. The digestion pool up there usually gets tossed on my side along with some capillary towers and brood nests to fill out a hive-ey feel. The minerals are used as objective markers and the zerg drones are just bits of fluff I put on the table. They were originally made for a game type my friend and I were working out that was like the relic, only there were multiple relics and each side had harvester units that could help gather them.  Now, they're just cute things I move around when I'm waiting for my turn.
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These are my brood nests that i've painted up
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I'll add more stuff as it gets painted!

[tylertt]

Those termagants should be viewed by GW. If they ever get a result I truly hope they go with your design. It looks awesome and I feel it would fit the Nid theme solidly.

Fantastic conversions Xeno.

[trashcan01]

Agreed, great stuff!!! Thanks for taking the time to post thiese and keep 'em comin'!

[Hive Tyrant Qiln]

Nice! Don't normally come around the painting section but damn! I especially love the termagants! Now I have to work on converting one of my Maleceptors into an Overlord...

[Xenothios]

Thanks for the kind words! I'm presently working on a mawloc, trygon, magnetized trygon/mawloc and a second flyrant. This new flyrant is going to have some... interesting unique qualities to it, for sure.

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Apr 10, 2016 18:22:52 GMT Hive Tyrant Qiln said:

Nice! Don't normally come around the painting section but damn! I especially love the termagants! Now I have to work on converting one of my Maleceptors into an Overlord...

A floating maleceptor would be a sight to see! I briefly considered making tyrannocyte overlords (being transports and all) but the lack of synapse on something I would call an "overlord" made me sad so I scrapped the idea.