Hive Fleet "CARCHARADON" (elite magnifex)

[biotom]

hey guys,

i have had my nids for a fare while now, basically i have 2 battle force sets and i expanded that with a brood lord, sniper tyrant and a zoanthrope

anyway here are some pics

some wip spine guants and my zoan (note the different position of the bottom vents)


my brood lord, sniper tyrant, god fex and soon to be sniper fex!


warriors etc...



stealers etc....



i will be re-painting the carapace on the tyrant (i have improved vastly since i painted it!) and the carapace on everything else, since the hive fleets name is the 1st half of the latin name for the great white shark i will be using greys on the carapace, what do you think?

all C&C very welcome

(this will be a sort of blog as i will be posting all my progress in here ;D)

[m0gget]

Nice work those stealers look great.

[biotom]

thank you very much m0gget! what is your opinion on using greys on the carapace? i think it will portray the great white shark theme better than the purple does

[m0gget]

If you wanted a great white theame use the same techniqe you used for the purple one go for a bleached bone background with a skcull white drybrush try getting some diffrent types of greys and use the same techniqe you did for the purpe carpaces overlap the diffrent shades of grey. Hope that helps.

[Hive Fleet Helminth]

Loving the broodlord! Have you put all your rippers on small bases as that is what it looks like. It might just be my squiffy eyes though.

[biotom]

thanks HFH! i think you mean my hormaguants? the majority of my rippers are in the proccess of becoming flying rippers! i have some decent wire now so the can actually stand up

(if you want some pics of the brood lord i would be happy to oblige)

[Hive Fleet Helminth]

I think it may be the genestealers i'm looking at. More pictures of everything would be very welcome!

[zzapper]

...points at his models, points at biotom's, faints...

[m0gget]

Lol

[zzapper]

Yeah, I still need to finish gluing my fex...

[biotom]

here are some close ups of the BL, ill get some more up when im not in a rush

[vigilant]

Someone want to show off his broodlord conversion
Nice usage of warrior rending claws, as well as shifting of position.

Cool army, is it the Leviathan Scheme?

[Rilian1]

Another shark themed army huh? We'll have to get together and find out just who the king of the ocean is. Don't take this wrong, but from what I can see in your pics, they seem to have more of an orca-like color scheme. I was going for the same white shark look, but if you look at sharks in the water, they really aren't just black and grey. They have lots of blues and tan/browns going on(Hence my sworn-by Shadow Grey-based scheme). I'd also really like to see some up close pictures of your carapace scheme, as it looks like it blends into grey, but I can't tell from the size/flash of the pics. Anywho, nice army, I like 'em, but I feel an oncoming rivalry...

Oh, and one more thing: Niveus Partis will destroy Carcharodon.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

[biotom]

vigilant said:

Someone want to show off his broodlord conversion
Nice usage of warrior rending claws, as well as shifting of position.

Cool army, is it the Leviathan Scheme?

thanks! its a leviathan variant, i thought the position i got on the brood lord was just a bit more menacing than the norm

rilian1 said:

Another shark themed army huh? Anywho, nice army, I like 'em, but I feel an oncoming rivalry...

Oh, and one more thing: Niveus Partis will destroy Carcharodon.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

another shark army indeed! they fit so well with the nids. thanks for the compliments, as for the rivalry.... game wise, would be a bit hard considering our geographical differences, but if you mean painting then a rivalry it is!! ;D

[m0gget]

I'm MUCH closer same place lol