Infested Monolith

[Dromedar]

Heya!

So I went to my local Gw store for the first time in a couple of years :P
I bought a Necronpiece. Monolith, I thought of converting it in to a tyranid / nurgle infested monolith. Though I've got a few ideas but far from enough so if you guys got any pictures or anything for inspiration I'd be so happy if you shared it with me =)

Well, that's it for now!

/Dromedar

[Dromedar]

Well small update!

I've thought of paint it white with a purple Cristal.
Thats what I've got so far on the monolith.

And I also though of making some terrain, so it's possible I'll post some futher ideas of a temple or something =)

[Dromedar]

A small uppdate, havn't get started with the modell yet though i've got some ideas and stuff.

Infestion 1: Some kind of Roseish looking infest with tentacles
Infestion 2: a Scar on the Monolith with tentacle growing inside with a Battle for Macragge infestions look

havn't decided if I am about to paint it white yet.
Colour schemes are all welcome =)

[Mr Feral]

Sounds like a good idea f done well. Perhaps if you were to add some Gaunts running alongside the Monolith or a tentacle or two reaching out to grab some fleeing enemies, then that would look good.

The colour scheme could be a dirty white, with lots of grimyness and slime, and purple tentacles to match the crystal.

[THE CHIEF]

Sounds interesting. I'm not sure how fluffy it is though, but I'm open minded

[Neknoh]

Play a bit of Starcraft and let your Zerg Queens loose on the Terran Command Centres for an idea

[Dromedar]

Thanks for replying =)

Instead of making it Rose alike I'll probably make it a bit more lilly like :P

Mr Feral - Hopefully I'll do a decent job =) And I've thought of make a Scen of it so that Idea is great. I just gotta get tons of Gs :P

The Cheif - I havn't been in to play the game for quite a few years, and havn't touched my brushes for almost 2 years so, basicaly this model is just for fun and Havn't though of use it in battles yet.

Neknoh - Thansk for the tip =) I'll do that right now =)

[Dromedar]

Well, the whole Christmas thing is over and I'll probably have sometime to make some progress today!

I've decided the monolith should be wounded as the Tyraninds should have looted it after a battle or something =)

Probably gonna post the first Pictures today! (A)

[Dromedar]

Aah finaly I made some practiacal progress.
I've Build the main parts of the monolith and also started converting one of the guns.
Im quite pleased so far actually, still lots of stuff has to be done on the Gun.
I have also started painting the model.

And finaly some Pictures of what's done so far! =)

[Dromedar]

[SharpSilver]

This looks interesting.

Will watch this space.

[IncrediSteve]

If anyone comes in and whines about "How did a Monolith get infected, Necrons don't use the warp, yada yada", you can just tell them it got hit with a Vortex grenade .

[TwoByFour]

At first, when I saw the headline, I thought to myself: "This'll be either awesome or really bad".
I am happy to say that so far, it looks even better.
I really like that gun, the 'Nid bitz look great. The greenstuffing as well, very organic. I'm looking forward to seeing what else you do to it!

[Cm_sculpt]

Nice idea, and nice sculpting. Its not always easy trying to sculpt with putty the consistencey of bubble gum lol. Keep up the good work

[Dromedar]

Thanks for the suport guys! =)
been working on a second gun that is even more infested than the last one.
Also I finished the first gun!

Cm_Sculpt Haha no actually it isn't this is my first atempt of sculpting anything so I've figured its quite alot harder than I though :P

Incredisteve People have a tendency of whine about fluff all the time huh? =)

[Dromedar]

Updates!

Been a long time since I posted anything in here.
I had a major break, didn't touch a model for six months.
the last three month or so I've been modeling on a regular basis, and I've managed to make som progress.
Suprisingly, latley my sculpting improved alot. well, not alot, but still noticable.

However, about week ago I decided I was done with model and up for some painting.
Unfortunately, I havn't painted anything for a long time. About 12-18 months actually.
I feel a bit rusty, anyway I feel I got some of it done fairly pleasant, even if I'm not pleased.
I got all of the infestions done and I'm working on the base coat for the major areas of the model now. Working on a bleached bone-ish colour, can't work it out the way I want it yet. BUT! I'm working on it

Adding a couple of pictures. Dam, these close-ups is a confidence killer!

[The Laughing God]

I want to see them. It looked really cool before.

[Dromedar]

There you go =)
The pictures are up! enjoy!

And thank you laughing God, I hope I won't let you down!

[Dromedar]

Small update, I'm in a hurry. Leaving in 10 mins for skiing a couple of days.
Can't get the Bleached bone out right, it's very much Wip.
Any Ideas how the bleached bone could be done?
I appreciate any feed back!

Cheers!

sorry about the bad picture
I'll try to get some better pics with a better source of light in a couple of days.

[Dromedar]

Back from skiing, though having a rough week in school. Also I accepted a spot in a soulband, having 2 performances in 2 weeks so I'm having a busy time writing some wind stuff up for the band.

Anyways, I've been thinking. Might leave the "armor", (what's it called? lol)
plain Bleached bone, I also had some trouble with the side pieces. The ones I did before was primed black and those who came with the basic structure was primed white along with the rest.
I might have come up with a solution, it's still paint in progress though I'll try to finish it up asap even though I roughly have no time.

Expect updates as soon as I can use the sun as a lightsource for some photos

Cheers!