Biovore Conversion Idea

I found a pretty good tutorial on how to make Biovores out of Warriors.  I'm going to end up with some spare Warriors, so I might give this a shot.

The tutorial comes from here...

http://monkeychuka.blogspot.com/2014/03/another-biovore-conversion.html

Here are a couple of shots of the outcome.  Pretty impressive, actually.  The painted ones look amazing.

Snowpocalypse + Tyranids

So, we got about 18 inches of snow on Saturday.  That was fun.  Normally, being snowed in would equate to tons of hobby work.  Not so this past weekend.  I did the following.

1. Shoveled out my car (it was in a snow drift ~3ft high)
2. Shoveled out the wife's car (it was in a snow drift ~3ft high)
3. Shoveled out the neighbor's car (it was in a snow drift ~3ft high)
...freaking snow drifts
4. Gutted my bedroom.
5. Gutted every closet in the place.
6. Threw out NINE full bags of garbage.  Seriously, I have something like 40 pillow cases.  Who needs that?
7. Prepped four big storage bins of stuff to donate to Goodwill and local women's shelters.  I don't have the room, but a lot of what I wanted to get rid of still has value to someone.

I also made some pretty epic meals.  Smoked Paprika Tilapia and Beef & Broccoli.  Boom.  +2 to my Cooking Skill.  I'll get that Chef Title in no time.  (I'm somewhere around Kitchen Urchin right now.)

BUT...  did I do any hobby work?

Yup, a little.  I have MOST of a Tyrannocyte assembled as well as the Mucolid Spore Cluster and 6 regular Spores that come with the kit.  If you follow the directions, you can't assemble both the Tyrannocyte and the Mucolid.  This is because they share the same tentacles that they stand on.  These are absolutely essential for the Mucolid, but really just look like decoration for the Tyrannocyte.  My intent is to make it look like it's crashing down onto a piece of an Imperial building.

Here's photographic evidence that I was semi-productive from a hobby standpoint.  This is actually a pretty massive kit.  First up is a shot showing the top half of Tyrannocyte and the Mucolid in comparison to our friendly Soul Drinkers Marine.

Next up is everything from the kit so far.  The weird round thing is the bottom half of the Tyrannocite.  I'll probably not glue it on so that I can use the Tyrannocyte as a Sporocyst sometimes.

More to come!  Hopefully the next update will have a fancy base for this Tyranid "I'm totally not a Drop Pod" Drop Pod.

Awesome Mail Day

Today was a pretty solid day for the old postal service.  They brought me not one, but two packages of hobby fun times.

The first is the Tyranid Getting Started box that I ordered from eBay BEFORE it was released as a preorder.  It just got here today.  Nice and late.  Oh well, such is life when you buy from eBay.

We're supposed to be getting two feet of snow starting tomorrow, so the plan is to use that time stuck inside to get some models assembled.  I still have lots of Maelstrom's Edge stuff to work on also, so it's not like I'm short on things to work on.

The second thing I got was my delivery of Gruff, a Kickstarter project I backed.  It's a card game where you play as a mad shepherd controlling a group of mutant goats who fight each other.  It looks promising and has one of the coolest packages I've seen in awhile.  I'm pretty psyched to try it out.

I'll write a quick review once I've had a chance to play a game or two.

Proof that I'm doing Stuff! Tyranids Edition

So, I got a bunch of Tyranid stuff assembled and primed.  I've also worked out my intial 500 point list.  It may be awful.  I'm not sure yet as I've never played with or against Tyranids in any meaningful way.  I may rage quit and never get past 500 points.  We'll see.

The list will be...

HQ Tyranid Prime w/Devourer and Bonesword/Lashwhip

Troops 3x Tyranid Warriors, 1 w/Venom Cannon and Rending Claws, 2 w/Devourer and Bonesword/Lashwhip

Troops 12x Termagants w/Devourers

Troops 3x Ripper Swarms w/Deep Strike and Spinefists

Troops 3x Ripper Swarms w/Deep Strike and Spinefists

And primed!

Christmas Updates - Gundam and Tyranids

So, Christmas has come and more or less gone.  As per normal, I didn't get anything hobby related.  I don't think most people have any real understanding of how I spend my free time, so I tend to get jackets and socks and things like that.  I'm appreciative.  Everyone needs jackets and socks.  Sometimes, you'd just rather have a robot.

To whit, I bought myself a couple of Christmas gifts that I'll be using to do some conversions.  First up is a Gundam model.  This thing is fully pose-able and I haven't decided on a pose yet.  I'm thinking it might end up as a Ghostkeel, but I need to do some work.  I want to build a Tau themed should pad like the Fire Warriors have, and also some better weaponry.  I'm torn on the head.  It looks pretty much like a Drone, so I might leave it as is, but with some antennas.

Next up is my new army for the new year.  This will probably be my big project for 2016.  I know the Tyranid Codex is terrible right now, but there is a rumor that it will be updated in early 2016.  I'm going to start off with some staple units that I'll most likely be able to use in any army list.  The first box I'm working on is some Termagants.  I'll be doing Devourers on these guys.  It's an Assault 3, S4, AP- weapon with a medium range.  I've gone up against these before and they do well on sheer weight of fire.  The box also comes with seven small Rippers that I can use to make Ripper Swarms.  In addition to the seven, I just won an eBay auction for nine complete bases of them.  I think the 9 bases have something like 28 individual Rippers.  I'll probably crack them apart, dress up the bases and put two Rippers on each base.  That'll give me a potential for 17 bases.  From what I understand, Ripper Swarms with the Deep Strike option are the gold standard for Troops choices in a Maelstrom game.

As you can see, the assembly line is beginning!

More to come sooner than later.  I'm going to try to get back into the swing of posting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.