Norn queen

[harec]

While finishing my BGF fleet here is a project derivated from one of my hiveship toraxes ;D.

More than a miniature I think this will be a piece of terrain.
I think there was a user here that was already preparing to make a tyranid ship table. Well I was also thinking in doing the same a long time ago but insteat of that, as BFG player I would just do a single chamber as a hole battlefield(BFG ships are to big, just a single compartment could be a big table). But that would be a future project.Now I will just make the center creature of the table.

The norn queen.

fist of all the initial concep(It is not mine I took it from wikihammer)


Here is the fist attemt to give birth the criature(a year ago). a total failure


But while working on my new resin casting hive ships I realiced I could use une torax to fill that gap in my hearth ;D
And this time I like the result



It is still in progres but I think It is going to be a good objective marker in the future

[sral49]

Remember that Norn queens are MASSIVE creatures several hundred meters tall. You simply cannot pass that off as a queen.

[harec]

May 17, 2012 12:10:32 GMT sral49 said:

Remember that Norn queens are MASSIVE creatures several hundred meters tall. You simply cannot pass that off as a queen.

I was thinking in consider the hole battlefield the queen, but like the Alien queen, with 2 parts, this will be like the conscious part , the egg chamber would be the other part, the miniature will be stick in a wall

[avsimone]

nice idea. maybe if you have the battle ground in the egg chamber, you could have some egg sacs, or even birthing gaunts on the ground. also I would have though that the norn queens had some sort of protection apart from the whole birthing gaunts, warriors and any other tyranid being. maybe large scythes in the ground and pools of miasma

[Scizor]

the table needs lots of areas that counts as dangerous terrain, that's for sure.

[riddlec]

I'm in the process of building a new landscape incorporating a Norn queen as part of its terrain. I'm using Carnifex, Tervigon, Hive Tyrant, Heirodule, Zoanthrope and Trygon peices. I'm approaching the project thinking that the norn queen houses DNA collected from planets to incorporate in future generations of tyranid. That being said the Norn queen should somewhat resemble any unit it can create. End product should be a little bigger than the size of your average Carnifex. I'm designing it fixed into the wall of it's ship with reclamation pools and a birthing chamber surrounding it. Have the pieces and am currently working on a drawing to get a basic idea of what I want it to look like. Any other suggestions? The picture is the start of my rendering.

[riddlec]

Here's the finished rendering, let me know what ya'll think about it!

[Phenious]

Looks pretty awesome, but small for a norn queen if you ask me.

[riddlec]

True, I guess if you're going to make a Norn Queen then it needs to be around the epic to titan size huh? If that's the case I guess the next viable option would be a clay based form kinda like the original post that started the thread. I'm not crazy about the "throne like" idea of it's abdomen, seems a little too glorified and symmetric, and that's a human trait. I would think that the Tyranids would have a more raw/basic setup. So I'll probably stick with my concept design just increase the size substantially. Any other ideas?

[Phenious]

Look for those resin alien queen models as a base that you can build up on with foam or clay. And I think you should make it built into some terrain. kind of like her lower body is in the ground, a body on top of a spore chimney. Like she is grown out of the insides of the hive ship. Kind of Pirates of the Caribbean, part of the crew, part of the ship. I would look at making this thing, even at only the top half showing, being as tall as the hierophant. At least that is what I have imagined from the descriptions people have come up with on warpshadow and dakka dakka but that is just my take on the mother of all broods.

[Scizor]

i'm not a too big fan of the "seashell" look of the norn queen. i'm more for it being a huge queen nid (based or hive tyrant or dominatrix designs) that is connected to eggsacs like the Alien Queen. being a nid, i prefer the idea that it can in emergency, free itself from its chamber to live naother day. but all is up to personal taste

[riddlec]

Ok, so I went by the local games shop and found a base i like for the model. I think I'm going to use the "Temple of Skulls" terrain model as the base of the model. I think that with some slight modification it could be made to look a little more "tyranid"y appearance. I plan on turning the main upper platform into the reclamation pool and the two partial towers into spore stacks. As for the hasty retreat aspect I was thinking more towards a chest/upper abdomen mounted egg sack similar to that of the verigon models for the fixed terrain version with an optional set of lower torso and leg mounts for a ground force version. Thanks for the advice guys it's helping everything along one piece at a time.

[riddlec]

Ok so I finally finished my earlier project of a genestealer scout team (first pic) and have created the first part of my Norn queen skull. Check it out! I included the scout team as a comparison for skull size.

[riddlec]

Here's the queen

[riddlec]

skull/face painted