Painting up some Toxicrenes!

[draaen]

So finally have the first of my 3 toxicrenes finished up. I also finished my base for him minus a final poor of the water effect. Have to get the colour scheme for the marine from my brother which has been rather painful!

Really happy with how this guy came out. Pity he will be sitting on the shelf so long due to covid.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

That's some fancy freehand! Are you doing gold or yellow accents on the purple?

[draaen]

A NMM Gold recipe. Heavy Goldbrown to Gold Yellow to Sun Yellow to Dead White.

[NidNoms]

appropriate how you have the biohazard symbol on them

[draaen]

In between naps and diaper changes I have managed to finally get this project realy close to a close. I have to fininsh some touchups on the two newly painted toxicrenes, one unfortunate marine held in the tentacles and two bases. I have a game in 2 weeks for the first time in forever so I am really hoping to be able to field these guys in there finished glory. Then they will die horribly while accomplishing nothing! I am a firm believer in the curse of the newly painted model.

Next to follow will be a bunch of ripper swarms. Those should be a nice change of pace and a lot quicker to finish. Hopefully.

[garg]

I recently painted a single toxicrene (base still needs to be done) so i brought him out recently. He actually did quite well because there were other more pressing threats for my opponent to deal with.
Good luck when you take yours out to play 😃

[terminatoruk]

These are awesome - the green really pops against the purple - very clean!

[ghostnids]

Excellent paint job! Also, would you share with us how you made those dynamic looking lash poses? To me it looks like the beastie on the left simply got his noodles reversed, but the center and right ones looks covnerted.

[NidNoms]

Apr 19, 2021 11:31:22 GMT draaen said:

In between naps and diaper changes I have managed to finally get this project realy close to a close. I have to fininsh some touchups on the two newly painted toxicrenes, one unfortunate marine held in the tentacles and two bases. I have a game in 2 weeks for the first time in forever so I am really hoping to be able to field these guys in there finished glory. Then they will die horribly while accomplishing nothing! I am a firm believer in the curse of the newly painted model.

Next to follow will be a bunch of ripper swarms. Those should be a nice change of pace and a lot quicker to finish. Hopefully.

ok how are you doing those tendril poses?

[draaen]

May 9, 2021 18:33:24 GMT NidNoms said:

Apr 19, 2021 11:31:22 GMT draaen said:

In between naps and diaper changes I have managed to finally get this project realy close to a close. I have to fininsh some touchups on the two newly painted toxicrenes, one unfortunate marine held in the tentacles and two bases. I have a game in 2 weeks for the first time in forever so I am really hoping to be able to field these guys in there finished glory. Then they will die horribly while accomplishing nothing! I am a firm believer in the curse of the newly painted model.

Next to follow will be a bunch of ripper swarms. Those should be a nice change of pace and a lot quicker to finish. Hopefully.

ok how are you doing those tendril poses?

The one on the left just has his arms reversed. I kind of think of him as rearing up to swing forward and was the easiest.

The other two are similar in execution and takes some futsing. Basically just bring a big pot of water to boil on the stove. Leave the pot on the stove and leave the heat on so that you keep the water nice and hot. Although turn it down if it is too steamy. Then take two needle nose pliers and the tendrils you are going to shape. Grab onto the arm or base of the tentacles with one and  submerge the tentacles until they become pliable. Slowly bend the tentacles with the other pair of pliers. Overexagerate the bend if you can as they tend to relax back a bit once removed from the water. You may need to repeat this process a couple of times due to the relaxing of the plastic and it's not like you can get too close when they are in a pot of boiling water.

The plastic will ben so the joints need a bit of work and maybe cleanup for the two connecting tentacle bits. I did break one tentacle and that is the one which is wrapping around my dude. I just cut off the tentacle end drilled a hole in the stump and the tentacle end then used wire and green stuff to wrap the dues up. Looks okay but upon closer inspection you can tell.

I would get some nice smooth jawed needle nose pliers for this as I spent a little bit of time cleaning up the plier marks. You also can't really bend the ends at least I wasn't brave enough as I feared damaging the tiny little spikes. 

The one furthest on the right I did have to bend arm joints and carve out a bit of the body to allow that motion. I also had to pin up the midsection to allow the bend. I cut out his mouth tetacles then drilled in and added wire to replace as many of the tentacles as I could get to.

It was a good amount of work but a fun challenge since I had not seen anyone actually convert a toxicrene. They were always more of a novelty when I saw them on battle reports like hey look we have one toxicrene! Whereas I wanted them to be a core part of my army. So I didn't want 3 of the same and I also wanted to be able to transport them.