Oldschool Genestealers

I haven't been idle over the last few weeks and months. I have been busy crafting and painting, but somehow I didn't feel like writing about it. I'll catch up on that bit by bit. 

Here are a few more recent miniatures – a few Genestealers for my Retro-Nids. I like these striking colours and hard contrasts. 

 

I had already painted six Genestealers over two years ago, and those have a more blue and purple colour scheme. The new ones are blue and pink. This wild mix can also be found in the 2nd edition codex, making it highly official! 

Oldschool "Epic" Tyranid Trygon - Finished!

The Trygon is finally ready for battle. I think it is pretty cool and it fits in well with the other old Tyranids. Yes, you can see some printing lines, but the model practically costs nothing. You will hardly see such details on the gaming table.

With claws, he's about 30 cm long, about 13 cm high and 14 cm wide. I've added a few other minis in the last picture to compare its size.

Oldschool "Epic" Tyranid Trygon

I thought it would be cool to play a big game (approx. 3,500 pts.) with the Retro-Nids this summer. However, I still have to paint some of the medium-sized crawlers and one or two larger monsters are still missing. 

I've fantasised about a Trygon for a while now - in the classic style! They exist for Epic 40,000, but unlike some other Epic monsters, there was no miniature of them from Armorcast. I came across a picture of a raw model from Armorcast on the Modern Synthesist blog, but it didn't go into series production: 

http://www.modernsynthesist.com/2012/02/tyranid-archive-armorcast-tyranids-and.html

However, the community has not been idle and there are print files for some of the old monsters. I was also able to find some of the Trygon! 

https://cults3d.com/en/users/CaitSidhe/3d-models

For me, however, there was a catch - the mouth. It just looks strange and doesn't fit in with the other minis. I have no idea whether this is the case with the Epic models. In any case, the raw model from Armorcast suggests a normal mouth. 

I have only very modest 3D modelling skills and I don't get on at all with Blender, for example. To make some progress here, I took the mouth part of a ripper and used it to roughly replace the beak in the original file. I would bend the rest with modelling clay.

I'm quite happy with the result and after a little more sanding I can apply the primer.