Hierofex WIP

[nuklearangel]

So I was cutting and pinning and working out limbs and bitz tonight, cut my finger with my modeling knife, but whats a little blood in the grand evolutionary scheme eh? So a sneak peek cuz I am tired, he has a bunch of greenstuff work to do on limb joins and the head will be tweaked and bits and bobs added here and there for detail, and the guns will be fixed, with a barbed strangler added. Oh and the tail. Nothing is glued either, so hes a little wobbly!

Anyway I figure I will base him on a big base, and field him as a sniperfex in regular games, or maybe a barbed hierodule in Apocalypse, at least until I convert something larger or buy some forgeworld!

[zark]

Very nice, can't wait to see what he/she/it/bob looks like when you fill in the arms.

[nuklearangel]

Orright its coming together a bit better now, greenstuffed the front arms, they are basically done, started work on the head too, got to extend the neck and armor it up. The tail needs work too, but I think his pose is fairly solid, not super dynamic but clambering over ruin bits is always classic. He is pretty tall too! I'll get scale shot in my next batch.

[zark]

Looking better is he magnitised?

[nuklearangel]

Nah, but his weapon loadout is one I would always use, so no worries

[zark]

Ah I see, and you just gave me an idea on what to use that macragge terrain for

[tyranidnz]

Lol yes Hope you don't mind me stealing that idea for my trygon?

[nuklearangel]

Not at all guys, Im all about stealing ideas! Otherwise why post?? Take what you like and evolve with it, and enjoy! I am saving the rest of the maccrage parts for even bigger beasties. One day

[J.Dogg]

You said that you was going to make use of it as a barbed hierodule? PHAH! the base is 4-5 times bigger than a monstrous base! woulld like to see that!
Btw, good looking model

[nuklearangel]

Its that big eh? Maybe I won't then Ahh well it was worth a shot. If my opponent agrees though I would like to try some superheavy nid action.

[nuklearangel]

Another pic of him coming together more, I mounted the gun arms on the chest more, underneath the back arm sockets, gives the various limbs more room to move. I'll fill the gap with GS and large toxin sacs.

My first go at sculpting armour plates on the head, a little messy but I am happy with the front two plates, makes the head a bit more distinctive. Couple more details here and there and some gap filling and I can get to painting!

[Sledgehammer]

Nice conversion!

Could you post a closeup of both weapon arms please (especially, what you did with the feeder hoses)?

Oh and BTW somewhere it says that a standartfeature on 'nid creatures is 5 head plates. (I'm aware that Forgeworld deviates from that with their hierodules)