[BFG] My Tyranid fleet

[harec]

Hi all, this is my fist topic in this forum, I hope you like it and if any of you have a question or suggestion just ask and/or comment.

I do love battlefleet gothic as game and I think the miniatures are awesome in general, but when I saw tyranids hive fleet ships I just was really upset.
So I decided to build mi own fleet.
This is the initial concept, I saw it about 8 years ago when 3 edition Tyranids were released.


I tryed to make the cruisers similar to the 2 ships of the drawing, I also consider the uper ship of the drawing a hive ship, as you will see in the next post scort ships and spores will complete the drawing. 
So here are the result, I hope to have time to have a complete fleet painted as soon as posible to take part of this years gothicomp.

1st post capital ships.
Hiveship(1 prototipe without weapons)


Cruisers(2 prototipes without weapons)

[Lex]

Awesome.....   more, more  !!

[harec]

Now is the turn of little ships .

Krakens(4 prototipes from left to right piro-acids, massive claw, feeder tentacles and bioplasma/torpedoes)

Vanguard Drone ships(2 prototipes feeders and piro-acids, I tryed to make them symilar as one of the scorcts in the drawing but I finally enlarged they heads, as they are scouts they need more eyes)

Escrot drones(4 prototipes piro-acids, feeder, bioplasma and fireship )

and finally Ordnance

[harec]

Awesome.....   more, more  !!

thanks XD.

And finally special features.

This are just aditional bits to make the fleet even more unice/real and of course unpractical XD.
I want my bioships to be surrounded by a cloud of creatures, so here are the little ships, so little they have no profile  used as spores or atack craft,(or as corvettes)
First of all here is a flying base specially thinking in playing(It is easy to see the diferent parts and the prow)


space slugs.


Inmature krakens


Miscelaneous


and finally blast markers(I want to use common blast markers as base of them)


Thats all at the moment, now I am working in a huge hive ship that I think I will call planet devourer(I`m still thinking on the name in english if you have any sugestion), I`m planning it to be about 25cm long.
 I will see what could I do with Its rules soon in the rules feedback

[Dan_Lee]

Those all look brilliant. I particularly like the detail work on the bigger ships.

[harec]

Those all look brilliant. I particularly like the detail work on the bigger ships.

Thanks, the bigger ships have more detail because they are easier to secure them(I`m not sure if it is the correct word), the spores are nearly imposible to secure and I dont have freedom to detail them.


Here is my latest project the planet devourer , This is the structure, I think is bigger enough, I will use the same tecnics I used on the other ships so if anyone want to sculp their swan here is a guide .
 I think is very simple, relatively easy and cheaper than using bits(if you dont have any) and I personally like the results. So if anyone have a question(Materials, process or tools) just comment.

A sort view of the squeletonand the flyiing base  with a space marine strike cruiser and my hive ship to compare sizes.

[dicnar]

simply WOW. This is some awesome stuff! And i though that my tyranid hiveship is slightly to big this planet devourer is pure evil !

[Comrade-K-Rad]

These ships are really great!  I really like the way they look, very similar to the artwork and rather menacing.

Keep it up, I would really like to see them all painted up!

[Jimmy Zimms]

[gunldesnapper]

Damn man i LOVE the idea of goobers on capital ships stands......LOVE!

[harec]

thanks all

This is the sumary of the process I used to make my miniatures.

Step 1_inicial concept.
Step 2_structure, it can be made of wire or wood, depending on the form of the miniature,(in this case just balsa wood).
Step 3_ filling the structure and obtaining a previous form.
Step 4_details(green stuff).
Step 5_resin casting.

I will start Step 5 on the fleet this week.

Concerning the planet devourer it is now on step 3.

1st filling aluminum foil, it makes the miniature lighter and is an easy and common material.



2nd filling modeling clay(I ran out of it ), modelling clay is quite cheap(about 2,5 € in spain), it is also very clean you just need water to clean it, but it is quite coarse(you cannot obtain details)


At this point if anyone is thinking on modeling anything, material costs would be about 4€, and depending on the size, betwen 2 minutes(a scort), and 30min-1hour (the planet devourer) depending on your experiece.

[frogbear]

Very awesome!

[afterimagedan]

Heck yes, Tyranids. Can't wait to see more.

[Jimmy Zimms]

Step 5_resin casting.

O'rrrrrly?


PS you forgot the next steps

Step 6:
Step 7: PROFIT!

[horizon]

Good stuff. The process seems quite easy to do. Even without resin casting as the clay models could do the trick allready.


<peeks at package of clay, 1 euro here... >