The ultimate tyranid hobbiest comp.

[it]

Hey all,

this is the ultimate competition, the greatest challenge in tyranid fandom.

I was thinking we should have an 'ultimate hobbiest comp'.

We shall tackle this in steps;

1st step: invent a new unit, it can be completely anything. Write a 'small' piece of fluff for your new creation. (Helps decide 'how will this beast preform on the battle feild?'

2nd step: sketch, paint, draw your creation. Any art form, just get your new idea visual (this will help with the next step)

3rd step: gather resources and convert your creation, use any medium, make a physical model of the creature

4th step: paint your creation, make em' beautiful 

5th step: create a scene/diorama thing, just a nice picture of your new model.

6th step: You can't put all this effort in and not use your miniature in a game, make some stats and rules that you would deem reasonable.

You can do any unit of any species, heck you can make a new army if you really want. You don't need to do the steps in this order, but I do advise doing the drawing before the conversion. And writing rules and stats can probably go anywhere, I just thought that doing those at the end is useful las you can gain inspiration from the model. Each step is inspired by the other steps and once you get started it will just snowball form there. So take a second, flick through some old codexes and get inspired!
This competition is definitely going to take some time but in the end you will discover new sides of the hobby, find new skills and if you go the whole way will feel very proud. It may seem a daunting task but in these steeps it will turn out easier than first thought. Don't worry if you are currently unskilled in any of these areas you will pick it up and learn. If you really can't do a step just skip it, but you no at least try.

When all participants are finished we'll vote for the winners, I think we should have two category's; the entire project and 4 or more of the steps.
Post your progress here and at the end gather up all your bits and post them as one for ease of viewing.

What are you waiting for?

Get Started!

And of course have a bucket lode of fun.

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[Julio]

This sounds like an awesome idea! Id be down for sure

[Moontyranid]

im in

[macdaddyt]

I'll try to do this. I don't have a lot of tyranid bits but I think this would be fun I also suck at drawing :/ so I may have to acquire help for round 2

[it]

Okay, shall we begin?

[Moontyranid]

This is the (base)fluff for my cutey

++++tyranid wyvern

While similar to other tyranid organisms this monstrosity does not belong to any hive fleet.
The tyranid wyvern was creeed by mankind to be a anti tyranid weapon useing samples from diffrent tyranid`s. Hoping that the hive mind would ignore the creature and tyranid wyvern would kill the synapse creatures.
After a warp engine meltdown that hide the planet form existence the beast was able too free him self from his prison.After the tyranid wyvern had killed every living being on the planet he flew from planet to planet repeating the progress.Tho the experiment was a catastrophe it was confirmed that the tyranid wyvern has no connection too the hivemind and only lives to kill and feed.

[greyseer]

I'm assuming you'd want something fresh for this competition? I have three units with which I've already done steps 1, 3, 4, and 6. Drawing and setting up a diorama are the only things missing.

I've got a few other ideas, too, and this sounds like fun. So if "fresh" is required, I can do fresh. Or I can finish up and showcase the stuff that hasn't already been posted elsewhere.

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[it]

Fresh is required for the competition, but you can finish up the stuff you've done and post it here, hopefully it will inspire others.

[ilovethenids]

I'm absolutely horrendous at drawing, converting, and pretty much everything except step 1, so i'll just put my ideas out there and if anyone wants to use them for their submission they can feel free.

Summanofex

When Hive Fleet Gorgon first made contact with the Tau Empire, their prey's advanced computer targeting systems put them at an extreme disadvantage - beasts of all shapes and sizes were cut down before they could bring any of their bio-weaponry to bear. Naturally, the Hive Mind created a new organism to counteract this new obstacle - the Summanofex. The Summanofex is incredibly fast and agile, able to close long distances in the blink of an eye and its agility allows it to strafe and leap out of the way of incoming fire. Once it has reached its target, it emits a powerful bio-electric pulse that short circuits all machinery, preventing the Tau from using their electronic targeting. This ability has earned the Summanofex a fearsome reputation amongst the Tau, for the very technology they rely on for victory is useless if these creatures are left alive.

A special rule for its weapon would be something like:

Pulse: Instead of taking wounds, any target unit that fails its armour save (or otherwise suffers a wound) instead may only fire snapshots for the rest of the turn, regardless of any other modifiers.

[riverzora]

*hobbyist

But I'm in if I get the time/can find the bits

[Bot]

Is this comp still active?

[Moontyranid]

i am still working on mein but go`s really slow

[greyseer]

There really wasn't any timeline provided. No target deadlines and such.

Seems like some people are doing things for it, but without something resembling a reasonable schedule, other projects will take priority.

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[macdaddyt]

The origins of the Fulgrithax

The planet Torran was a fortress world that boasted some of the most powerful automated defenses in the Imperium. The Mechanicus priests labored day and night to appease the Machine spirits of each Turbo Laser and Macro Cannon on the surface of the massive planet.
It was the arrogance of the defenders of this world that proved their downfall. When Hive Fleet Basilisk Revealed itself to be a threat to the system there was no fear or concern. In fact the defenders even welcomed the threat as this was but another chance to utilize the defenses and date the bloodlust of the weaponries machine spirits.
When the Tyranids first fell the skies filled with burning as has every ship and spore pod of the first wave was obliterated by the cannons and defenses. The Fleet recoiled at the sudden destruction and, to the surprise of the defenders, Pulled back from the range of the planetary defenses. There was much celebration of the populace that night and even the planetary governor had pulled his own rare drink to celebrate the victory of the day. They had caused a tyranid fleet to retreat after all...or so they thought.
The Hive mind was swift in it's answer to the defenses. Spoon the sky of Torran was filled with Ash and death again...but much to the horror of the defenders, some of the pods were making it through. Swarms upon swarms of small winged creatures were sent to fill the barrels of the defenses and Spore mines were dropped in the millions. Not even the weaponry of such a planner could stop the entirety of the hive fleets barrage of biological creatures.
This massive wave would prove to be a distraction however, as a more destructive power lurked below the surface of the planet. Special spore pods adapted to burrow after making contact with the ground were sent during the Second wave and many made it to the planets crust. Out of these pods came a variety of creatures ranging from Trygons to Rippers, but a certain type of creature stood out. This was a creature with a massive, smooth carapace and large talons designed for digging and slaying alike, it also had massive pincers capable of tearing a man in half and a maw that could swallow an ork whole. It resembled a Trygon though on a smaller scale and though the beast was deadly in combat it had a much more powerful ability hidden beneath it's carapace.
Within it's massive she'll this creature had an organ developed to create bio-electric energy that was directly stored in a lining underneath the beasts skin. When fully charged the beast could let loose a pulse of energy so powerful it could sap am entire defense network of it's power. It was this creature that brought an end to the planet Torran and this creature that laid low a planet that had stood firm in the imperium for thousands of years.
The creature would arrive soon after a subterranean assault led my a trygon prime. As the defenders turned their guns towards the new threat the Fulgrithax would burst out of the ground and unleash a devastating field of electromagnetic energy, shutting down all weaponry and technology and leaving entire Blocks of a city in darkness.

[macdaddyt]

Aug 8, 2014 15:46:43 GMT ilovethenids said:

I'm absolutely horrendous at drawing, converting, and pretty much everything except step 1, so i'll just put my ideas out there and if anyone wants to use them for their submission they can feel free.

Summanofex

When Hive Fleet Gorgon first made contact with the Tau Empire, their prey's advanced computer targeting systems put them at an extreme disadvantage - beasts of all shapes and sizes were cut down before they could bring any of their bio-weaponry to bear. Naturally, the Hive Mind created a new organism to counteract this new obstacle - the Summanofex. The Summanofex is incredibly fast and agile, able to close long distances in the blink of an eye and its agility allows it to strafe and leap out of the way of incoming fire. Once it has reached its target, it emits a powerful bio-electric pulse that short circuits all machinery, preventing the Tau from using their electronic targeting. This ability has earned the Summanofex a fearsome reputation amongst the Tau, for the very technology they rely on for victory is useless if these creatures are left alive.

A special rule for its weapon would be something like:

Pulse: Instead of taking wounds, any target unit that fails its armour save (or otherwise suffers a wound) instead may only fire snapshots for the rest of the turn, regardless of any other modifiers.

I promise I read this AFTER I posted my story lol. I saw this and was like, (please do not swear) I totally have the same basic idea :/