Ideas for Tyranid bases?

[Harbringer of Doom]

I\'m thinking of starting a Tyranid army but because a lot of the models looks the same, I also want to give some special attention.

However, just a plain sand/grass base is not what I\'m looking for.

So, does anyone knows some original / not too hard ideas?

 

[frenchkid]

some kind of slime like the creep in Starcraft ?

Buildings falling appart, like they took over a planet and the cities are beeing reclamed by nature, would be easy to do concrete with grasse coming through on small bases and more elaborate buildings falling appart on large bases.

Jungle

Mountain

 

[DaN]

Or like Nurgley (is that the right adjective?) bases - with fungi, growths and odd spikes.

 

[Harbringer of Doom]

I\'m thinking of putting them on parts of Cities of Death parts ( any inspirational pictures / guides?) but I\'m open for more ideas though.

Thanks for your replies

 

[frenchkid]

By cities of death you mean ruined cities or am I missing somthing ?

 

[DaN]

@FK - Cities of death was a terrain supplement released by GW

 

[Harbringer of Doom]

Yep, DaN is right. I was thinking of using small/bigger parts as ruins were the tyranids could stand on...

 

[frenchkid]

I feel so mini illiterate these days :redface: Two years away from mini news and I don\'t even know GW releases

Anyway, after a quick look at the GW web site, it looks mainly like 40k building which not be too hard to do with cardboard for the big ones, and plaster and plasticard for small bases

 

[Harbringer of Doom]

That may be true, but that will cost a lot of time and I don\'t have any plasticard/ plasticard skills...

 

[freakinacage]

for concrete, mix a load of ddep gap filler (it\'s quite airy and light) with some normal filler and some pva to give it some flex. then pour it into something, smooth it so it is lever and then allow to dry. you can then smash it up and it it looks like really realistic concrete. add some wires sticking out and it looks like steel support rods


you can then add all kind of weird, brightly coloured foliage to represent the nids taking over the planet

also for brickwork, you can score lines in it very easily and it looks suprisingy realistic

 

[Tommie Soule]

here\'s two nids i did for my local gw the bases are meant to be rubble, they are really simple , it\'s just carved green stuff.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/162448

http://www.coolminiornot.com/162447

there is also my lich lord terminus mini as well.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/Tommie+Soule
drop me a line if you got any questions

 

[Harbringer of Doom]

Wow, that looks really nice! Do you also have some pic\'s of the unpainted base?

 

[Tommie Soule]

unfortunatly not, but all you need is some greenstuff and a craft knife to mke the rubble. mould the gs onto your base and add any little themey type things like hemets weapons banner poles, leave to harden over night then carve, sand and/or flock as appropriate then paint, simple!

like i said feel free to pm me if you need more advice

 

[Harbringer of Doom]

Thanks for your answer, I still haven\'t deceided with what I\'m going with, and I\'m still open for more ideas though

 

[NAVARRO]

im kind of addicted to spend tons of GS on my idea of hive nest in my nids bases... most people dont like them though
i sugest browsing dark father Giger images for ideas.

 

[DaN]

Dude, I THOUGHT you were our resident \'Nid specialist Navarro, but when I checked ur gallery, I didn\'t see ANY \'nids! lol

 

[Bengoodall]

failing that, Ive been getting hold of all kinds of cities of death bits, carving them up into useable size lumps, running all my excess sprues through a meat grinder, an old hand wound one, and mixing that up onto bases.

 

[NAVARRO]

Originally posted by DaN
Dude, I THOUGHT you were our resident \'Nid specialist Navarro, but when I checked ur gallery, I didn\'t see ANY \'nids! lol

Im not using CMON gallery in a long time... besides most of what i do these days is sculpting... when i paint some of my bugs i will post on CMON gallery... besides you can check my galleries on my site.

 

[freakinacage]

Originally posted by DaN
Dude, I THOUGHT you were our resident \'Nid specialist Navarro, but when I checked ur gallery, I didn\'t see ANY \'nids! lol

he is, it\'s all on his website

 

[DaN]

Yeah, I couldn\'t remember that site though, and I wasn\'t sure it was him