[BFG] My Tyranid fleet

[harec]

Great job .... what did you use to facilitate proper positioning ?

what do you mean?

[Lex]

When making multipart moulds you want to make sure they are positioned correctly before casting. Some people use stuff like Marbles etc to get the indentations and plugs. Yours dont look like those

[Guthwine]

Now thats what a tyranid fleet should look like, impressive work! 

[harec]

When making multipart moulds you want to make sure they are positioned correctly before casting. Some people use stuff like Marbles etc to get the indentations and plugs. Yours dont look like those

I just use mi hands and rubber bands I dont need more.

Here is the fist batch, the main objective now is to repair all the aborts I think a fail is an oportunity to improve the original design.
As you can see I even have copied the most little ships

Then the next challenge is to paint them, for me is a problem because I am quite bad at painting and my airbrush is broken  .
Well before I detroy any of the ships I will paint this abort that will count as a hulk

[Dan_Lee]

Looks like they've come out great.

An easy way to paint them would be to have a white undercoat and then just use various washes, all applied quickly so they run into each other. It is a common way of painting great unclean ones and other nurgle daemons.

[harec]

here is a look of mi firts hulk. Instead of using a white undercoat I ve used a yellow undercoat and green, red and pulple washes

[Dan_Lee]

That's a very different style to how tyranids are normally painted, but I think it works.

Is the bushy stuff to represent spore clouds? I think it works well too.

[harec]

That's a very different style to how tyranids are normally painted, but I think it works.

Is the bushy stuff to represent spore clouds? I think it works well too.

Its true but when I see mi ship I think yellow and green are the best colours for them , my 40k tyranids are purple but I am seriously thinking in changing the paint

the bushy stuff is just to represent bleeding and gas scaping from the hulk, the other races(I think they should be named species but anyway) have fire and smoke

[harec]

well I am now about to paint the fleet but I will still not show pics

I have continued modelling the planet devourer but I also have made a bit of R&D and have change a bit the way I give texture to my ships.
Now I spend lees green stuff and time and have a better result 

You just have to see it

PLANET DEVOURER ROUND 2

[Wintermans]

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.

I have same feeling about GW's tyranids models so congrats for your hivefleet, you've done a long, hard and finally great job here and keep it up !

[harec]

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.

I have same feeling about GW's tyranids models so congrats for your hivefleet, you've done a long, hard and finally great job here and keep it up !

 :DThank you winterman I had recently discovered your fleet also, I think your fleet is awesome, quite better than mine in details. I wonder I will someday have your hability modelling   .

IT would be quite good for me to had seen your work before I started.  Becasuse this are the firts miniatures I´ve ever made. I´ve made a lot of mistakes and it is also easy to diference the firts ship I made and the last. I have learned a lot.

Maybe in an early future I´ll try to achieve your quality but I need to practice a lot

I was thinking How do you cash your copies?, they look quite better than my aborts

[Wintermans]

  Becasuse this are the firts miniatures I´ve ever made. I´ve made a lot of mistakes and it is also easy to diference the firts ship I made and the last. I have learned a lot.
Maybe in an early future I´ll try to achieve your quality but I need to practice a lot

Like me... I began to sculpt when i began my hivefleet. But i'm working on it for the last 3 years, you're just starting and the better advice i can give you is : don't hurry.

My secret for miniature casting:http://www.grxmoulages.com/

[Lord Duggie The Mad]

Awesomeness, you haz it.  I was rather pleased with myself for putting some green stuff on the seam of my hive ships but this is just on a different level.  Kudos.