Hive Fleet Vespula

[radulykan]

having recently painted some bases using my eventual nid scheme i decided more nids were needed. although 40k nids are a long way off for me, back in 2009 i did a few mock ups of some nid ships for bfg.

kraken



vanguard drone



escort drone



tail





until last night thats how they had stayed. managed to be quite productive and bar some minor greenstuffing they are nearly ready for paint



kraken with massive claws







Vanguard drone with feeder tentacles







Escort drone with pyro acid batteries







grabbed the nearest escort i could find (one of my brother-in-laws falchions) for a quick scale shot





the idea of creating a fleet to rival the size of my imperial fleet is almost enticing but thats a lot of greenstuff

hoping to get these finished for ammobunkers One Mini A Month challenge and also gothicomp when it gets announced?

[drakiskier]

very nice. keep up the good work

[fnorrll]

Man I miss Gothic

[BattleMetalChris]

Freud would have a field-day.

[radulykan]

lol

got them painted!

did however struggle to get the details and gloss effect to show up in the pics, this being my usual set up


chucked in a coloured background and it seemed to sort it even if it is bright orange
kraken






vanguard drone






escort drone

[BattleMetalChris]

Beautiful.. those tails!

[radulykan]

cheers, in my mind the tails were sort of tadpoley mixed with squid and a bit of eel
picked up an inquisitor 54mm genestealer recently and today i built and sprayed him

excited to see one in a game
hopefully get some proper paint on him later this week

[radulykan]

finished my Genestealer! cant get a decent pic of it however. had problems taking pics of my bfg nid ships which are in the same scheme. any tips on photographing models that are mostly black and glossed?
the scheme is basically that of a xenomorph from aliens with added green/yellow details
here are pics with my usual crusade of fire back drop




wasnt happy with these as the metallic blue doesnt really show properly so out came the light box. that didnt seem to help as can be seen in the spoiler tags, any advice is welcome

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heres the worst pic, using my wifes old iphone 5c, the ipink phone kept reflecting back at me


an orange background sort of worked last time so i tried red




then white

also am a bit stuck on what to do for the base? i have some bases that look like xenomorph infestation, i can do spaceship decking or something else?

[radulykan]

Not strictly part of hive fleet vespula but I recently finished another 54mm genestealer
need to work on my photography skillz, the blue chitin has been washed out to look like black with blue stripes on it maybe next time I will get a decent pic



Went for the classic space hulk scheme on this one, bit of reposing was done to add variety

[abrahamlleida]

I like your bio-ships very much! nice job!

[blackrainbow]

That is some great stuff. I never got into BFG, but you make a great rendition of what it should have been for us.