m3lvin:
Project Trygon (Hive Fleet Mastodon)
Hello everyone!
been quite a while since I’ve posted some material on this forum,
and the reason is mostly cause I’ve moved to a new apartment.
The new tyranids will be released sometime in the middle of january,
and I’m a huge Tyranid fan.
It was actually the first models I’ve bought when I started with warhammer (somewhat 10 years ago).
In 2004 when I had some more experience I decided to give another go at the nids.
I decided a colourscheme and painted a force of about 1000-1500 pts.
I’m far from done with the army (having 3 unopened battleforces :D), It’s just been hybernating for the last years.
hopefully I will give it another go now when the new codex will be released.
Anyhow, the reason I post is to show you my latest project. (and the first at my new workdesk :))
It all started with that I saw the new trygon model. It’s awesome.
I heard rumors that they had it on display at my local hobby store (for pre-orders).
Then I got a plan, and went down there.
I’ve entered many models in the stores painting competitions (some of them tyranids),
and therefore know the owner pretty well.
my plan was to make a deal with him, in which I painted the trygon and then displayed it along with my other nids in his store,
giving him more commercial for the release of the new nids, and then letting me buy the trygon from him for a discounted price.
It was a win-win situation, and he agreed.
They were closing for the cristmas days (24-27) so that was my time limit.
here’s the beast :yar:
I was thinking about doing a diorama base for the models, that would fit into the display case at the store.
I already had a capillary tower I made a while ago, and decided to build the diorama base around it.
I made it out of cheap white styrofoam;
I decided to make a background aswell, where I would paint a landscape;
Here the diorama base is painted, and I’d started to paint the background.
unforunatly, I only had two acrylic paints at home (a was to much of a cheap-ass to use warhammer paints.)
The restricted palette was yellow ocre and cadmium red. I chose the ocre;
I also made the trygons base a little more interestning:
Then It was time for me to start painting the trygon.
My friend joined me for a painting marathon, and I finished the trygon in about 10-12 hours, in that time he’d painted 15 skaven night runners 
I was so busy painting, I only took two pictures during the session, and their not much to look at, anyhow;
Finally, the Trygon was painted!
Here compared to my intimidating carnifex. (which is not that intimidating anymore :~)
I didn’t really get any good picture of the final result on the diorama and all, since I had very little time (and no battery charger for the camera).
but this is somewhat how it looked in the end.
the picture’s blurry, you cant see the background that well.
and I did some highlights on the vegitations later.
Anyhow, I’ll take some good pictures next time I’m at the store.
hope you enjoy!
:cheers
/melv
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