Convoluted Thoughts Given Form
Hello there! It’s been a bit of a hectic couple months for me, started a new job and haven’t got anywhere near the time I used to spend on my blog. Now I find hobby and blogging to be competing
Malefactor On to my next creation! Once again I have delved into the annals of Epic Tyranid history, to find a monster fit for my Hive Fleet. The original Malefactor was basically a transport creature, carrying smaller organisms into the
Exocrine When the Exocrine was released, I initially wasn’t thrilled by the model. It just doesn’t look quite like I was expecting, most of the body is fine, but some parts just look…wrong. I think it was because I was
Flying Hive Tyrant Since I started collecting White Dwarf, I’ve loved the 3rd edition Hive Tyrant. While it most definitely takes its cues from the Alien Queen, it still looks incredible, even with its typical 3rd edition grin. The problem
Synapse is a necessity for the Tyranid horde, and the Warrior genus controls the Hive Minds’ influence over the lower lifeforms. While I’ll be using a variety of the old models for base Warriors, I have drawn a few different
Viragon: A Subterranean Bio-Titan This little beauty is the only official picture the Viragon has ever received, on an old 40k playing card, and it is described basically as a MASSIVE Trygon. I absolutely love the design of this monster,
Typhon, Lost Node of the Hive Mind The tyrant to my Swarm is likely to be one of the most ambitious conversions I will attempt in coming years, utilising the wide body of a Trygon and the larger legs of
Hive Fleet ‘Tempestus Gigantes’ was originally a splinter fleet of the great Kraken, severed from the Hive Mind by a fiercesome Warp Storm. This tempest engulfed an entire fleet of Tyranid Bio-Ships, but only a solitary Hive Craft emerged from the
Now, this may well have been done before, but I’ve been trying to map out how the Tyranid evolutions have come about/how they interact together. This was inspired by the following picture in the 3rd edition Tyranid codex, which proposed