Illusionrip Hive Tyrant

Hello there,

At first let me thanks Navarro to let me publish a step by step of my little tiny tyranid of love.

It’s the first time I try to do a bug, and to be honest it’s the biggest project I have ever do, and till the end it wasn’t boring at all.

The conversion is quite simple, I just modify the position of my “TyTy” to give an appearance of a falling and shooted hive tyrant.

I just saw the left leg, and bring out a little bit of material to close better the two elements, the rest was fill with green stuff.

The only thing I sculpt is the hand handling the chest.

The same here, I create a wire armature and sculpt on it the hand.

Because I’m a funny guy, I would like to add a funny detail, I done it on the base, I use a tank door and I put a cadian arm handling a grenade.

In fact I would like to create a cartoon effect, when the bad guy is trying to explode the good guy with a big dynamite stick.

The texture of the base had been realized with “liquid rocks” from Vallejo, it’s a kind of lava paste, who give a really realistic effect of earth/rocks.

The bigger rocks had been done with andrea putty, witch is perfect to realize realistic stone.

The putty had been work with real stone and x-acto knife, to give them the sharpness of real rock.

The barrel beside is in fact a ready piece of tamiya scale model.

The cylinder had been done with different plasticard tubes.

The colors used for the monster:

I use different kind of paints: games workshop, P3, reaper master series paints, and 1 vallejo.

I always use a wet pallet to keep my melting always wet, that’s give me the possibility to re-use the same melt one day after.

As for the painting technique, I use the glazing method, it’s a very long process but it worth the passed time (here you have about 250 hours of works)

By: Gareth

By: Leech