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| Author: | Warmaster Nice [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
Hi all. This is to be a blog for my planned Epic Tyranid army. As I still haven't actually recieved any models (Although a few purchaches should be en route) this blog will probably progress fairly slowly. Nid Infantry is worth it's own weight in gold these days so it is not unlikely that the blog will mainly feature bio tanks and warengines untill(if) SG decide to re-release the infantry spure. As a bit of shameess pluggery I'd also like to add that if someone should have some Nid infantry they want to get rid of at a reasonable price/trade then I'm definitely interested. |
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| Author: | Warmaster Nice [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
My first entry is actually more of a question to 40k players: Since I'm probably going to get a Carnifex, some Gaunts and Warriors as a base for my Biomonsters I was considering buying the Army boxed set for ?50 from the online store. That should save me a decent ammount of money. However I am not sure if I get everything I would if I bought the pieces seperately. The description doesn't say anything about the Rippers you usually get on the spures. Also I was wondering if the box comes with all the accessory spures you would get from buying the sets seperately? |
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| Author: | Warmaster Nice [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
My first Nid purchases consist of the following items: 2 Dominatrix', one of which are to be turned into a Hydraphant. The plan is to beef these up with some Carnifex bitz. 2 Hive Tyrants (Possibly 2 more if an auction doesn't spin out of control) 5 stands of Warriors 8 stands of gargoyles 3 Zoanthropes 3 Nodes I'm planning a GW order for various bitz and the before mentioned Army Box. This should give me the miniatures needed to build the following models: 2 Harridans 1 Hierophant 3 Hierodules 3 Trygons 3 Malefactors 3 Haruspex 4 Exocrines 3-6 Dactylis. 10 Raveners (BTW do you base these 1 to a stand like Lictors?) |
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| Author: | hotwire [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
well good for you....(just a bit of charity post to make you feel less lonely in the thread) |
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| Author: | NOVAGUARD [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
the ?50 boxed sets are complete kits... you dont lose parts by getting the set... also some of the mongoose games starship trooper bugs may make good proxies... their 'mites' (i think they are called that) would make great epic bio tanks... |
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| Author: | CyberShadow [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
Yes, you get a single Ripper on a number of sprues, so they cant be left out of the boxed set. Looking forward to this one! |
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| Author: | Warmaster Nice [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
Cool. The Starship Troopers stuff sounds very interesting. I'll see if there's anything there which might be usefull. I found a place on Ebay that sells the Nid boxed set for ?10 less than in the GW online store. However the question is if this is much of an advantage when you factor in shipping cost for the stuff I'm going to order from GW anyway. Besides GW is always good for replacing stuff in canse things do get damaged or lost in transit as opposed to an Ebay store. |
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| Author: | firestorm40k [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
Yeah, I'd recommend the ?50 Battleforce set, it's got all you need for Big Bio-Beasties, objective/infestation/Hive Node markers; plus spares if you ever want to scratch-build a 'Nid BFG fleet (which I'd like to, at some point...) P.S. Possibly the best thread title on here in a long time...  
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| Author: | Warmaster Nice [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
Well that settles it then. Order placed  P.S. Possibly the best thread title on here in a long time... Lol, thanks Sometimes inspiration strikes...although I wouoldn't be surprised if someone else has thought ?f it before... but then again that is the nature of the Hive Mind: Everything is connected... 
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| Author: | illuvitar [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
hey warmaster , what are you planning on using as trigons ? i was looking into doing some of this myself as i just picked up a bunch of nid inf. off e-bay. and i was thinking of just using 40k raveners with minor converting, are they too big ? |
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| Author: | Warmaster Nice [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
A bit big I think but that's just my personal taste. Personally I was going to build something from a Gaunt and some greenstuff but I'll have to wait and see what bitz I'll have available first. |
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| Author: | Warmaster Nice [ Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
A few thoughts on the paint scheme: Personally I'm not too hot on too brightly painted Nids. I think I'm going to start with a white undercoat followed by a coat of Camo Green and then pick out bone details in white again. Then everything will be covered with a dark brown wash (Possibly Vallejo "Smoke" wash though I'll have to do a bit of experimenting) and finally drybrushed with Rotting flesh or Bleached bone. I was aiming for an overall color tone similar to these Kroot 
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| Author: | Vermis [ Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
Mmm... Kroot. ?Didn't I have a yahoogroup about them...?  I think I remember seeing that on Warseer (or somewhere). ?Wasn't it dipped in a floor varnish mix? ?I think smoke could turn out out looking 'thinner'. ?That's not to say you shouldn't use it, though! IIRC the Tamiya clears are slightly more viscous than inks etc. Forum I used to go to went nuts for the clear red because it created a more realistic blood effect than red ink. Lastly, I'm not so sure about the final drybrush. ?IME drybrushed layers tend to look better under the final wash. |
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| Author: | Markconz [ Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
This is going to be awesome  Good choice of colours IMO (but then it is very close to my own nids... so maybe I'm biased)
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| Author: | vanvlak [ Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | A beautiful (Hive) Mind |
I think Vermis is right, that's a varnished Kroot.. look at the base too - it's all mucked with the stuff. Wash is thinner, but the GW flesh wash I use works as well, if applied thickly. The end result is glossy, but that's ok for Nids - slime is good, right? And yes, nice thread name. 
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