Shrikes using plague drone wings. (Pic heavy)

[mawlucky]

I'm slowly but surely developing a CC nid list and one of the main components are two squads of shrikes. I really liked a more insectoid look to the shrikes and I'm pretty happy with how they came out. Feel free to toss some constructive criticism my way. 



Started off just with the torso's and a pair of large plague drone wings. Clipped off an angle from the ball joint and glue'd it. Added green stuff to make it look semi-believable. 



Posed the legs so they were leaning forward and attached to the torso's. 



Started to work on my first basing project using wine corks. Probably going to build them up a bit higher to provide better posing. 



Filled in any gaps in the legs with green stuff. Wasn't a huge fan of the original pose..




So I changed it to more of an ambush pose.




Hopefully these can be helpful. I was only able to find one blurry picture of plague drone wings being used for a shrike conversion. 

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[reitifoh]

I made shrikes of my own a while back, I personally found they look ALOT better without the legs, also made mine with gargoyle wings, try to post a pic soon as I can dig them out again XD

[mawlucky]

I Could clip off the hooves and have them look more like flyrant legs. I wasn't a huge fan of how the scything talon legs looked and wanted to tr something a little different. I feel like the wings I've used benefit from having some bulk added to the model. This is maybe my second set of kit bashed models, still getting a hang of working with green stuff. Thanks for the feedback.

[abrahamlleida]

they look great

[reitifoh]

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Here you go, these are the only pictures I could find. they've since been painted and made 4 others in a similar way (BSLW) as you can see, I find the "no legs" to be very effective, but that's mainly because gargoyle wings have that 2 limb per wing look about them. I chose to remove the legs as to me it just seemed like too many limbs for a 'lesser' tyranid such as a shrike to get them on the flyer base I simply got a small hand drill and drilled a hole (probably about 1cm in depth) then added them to the warrior base (another drilled hole)

feel free to take any ideas you want from these shrikes, after all, there is no right or wrong way for them, as we have had no set design for as long as I can remember.