Show off your Hydracast parts/models

[Overread]

Title says it all! I've had an interest in picking some of their parts up and it would be great to see what you guys and gals have done with them already. Plus hearing your views on the casting quality and suchlike!

[tomb]

It's been along time since I've been on the Hive, I saw your post about Hydracast. I picked up the model below after contacting Hydracast a few years back when he was having a quiet period. He cast up a few of these and shipped them out.
sadly I can't see them on the site anymore? But the new stuff looks great especially the Hive guard.
Quality was great, I couldn't fault it but I did choose to reposition the body and tail and swap the head.

[arsonfire]

I've got a Crimson Terror


Along with Deathlurker


Both were cast to an excellent standard. I've purchased resin models from other 3rd party sites before, such as PuppetsWar, and Dark Arts Miniatures. Also direct from forgeworld. In comparison, the Hydracast models had very little in the way of casting defects. No noticable bubbles in the resin, or casting misalignments.
Bear in mind they're still resin, so prone to bending out of shape. You'll always need to do a bit of heat straightening with long narrow bits like scything talons or gun barrels with resin models, regardless of source.

[irondreddknight]

Jun 1, 2020 21:37:35 GMT tomb said:

It's been along time since I've been on the Hive, I saw your post about Hydracast. I picked up the model below after contacting Hydracast a few years back when he was having a quiet period. He cast up a few of these and shipped them out.
sadly I can't see them on the site anymore? But the new stuff looks great especially the Hive guard.
Quality was great, I couldn't fault it but I did choose to reposition the body and tail and swap the head.

any chance of a size comparison with a tervigon please?

[tomb]

Edit- for those interested this model is the Hydracast Mother of Brood model.
Best I can do as a size comparison at the mo until my Nids re-emerge from the attic...
All three models are mounted on the same base, that being a normal tervigon sized oval. Yes the Forgeworld model is not in its original frisbee. 
The Hydracast model is a real beast being as long if not fractionally longer and chunkier than the Heirodule. 
She is the best tervigon I'll ever own, I modelled extra egg sacks on the belly and added a twist to the body and tail as the original cast is quite strait.
See my (not very up to date) painting LoG for more comparisons and conversions.

[Trygon]

Damn these Hydracast parts look sick. Things have come a long way since before 2010 where any company caught selling GW based kits were demonised. I wish some of this stuff was around back when I was collecting!

[irondreddknight]

Thanks Tomb, I'm interested in using the hydracast model as a hierodule. It looks similar in size. Hopefully fortune favours me and i can acquire one.

[tomb]

No worries, send him an email, last time he needed a few orders to make it worth it. He was a member of the Hive too.

Best of luck it would make a great Heirodule!

I have my eye on the new Hive guard and Tyrant guard.

[Overread]

I messaged him recently - he's not producing anything at present because his resin supplier had to shut down as well during Corona and he's run out of material. He's hoping they open up in June which would mean he'd eventually be able to get more resin.

[tomb]

Jun 4, 2020 0:11:01 GMT Overread said:

I messaged him recently - he's not producing anything at present because his resin supplier had to shut down as well during Corona and he's run out of material. He's hoping they open up in June which would mean he'd eventually be able to get more resin.

Thanks for letting us know this. I may have to get an order in, it's always better to know that a parcel will have legitimate delays and the Russian post parcel tracking site is actually pretty good.
Ive recently recieved items from Legio Models and the Covid wait whilst post opened up again in Russia was long but each stage was wel documented on the tracking site.

[alexxx]

Some done Hydracast minis from my hive:

[tomb]

Dec 31, 2021 20:23:35 GMT alexxx said:

Some done Hydracast minis from my hive:

Great Painting, I love the tyrant guard. The biovores are a little disturbing!