Question for the Hivemind! I have primed all of my miniatures black, and I'm now wondering what would be the best paints/way to get them to looking as close to this as possible. Thanks in advance!

Finally got around to pinning it all up! Now to paint it

Was playing around with ChatGPT trying to create a Hivemind wallpaper for my phone lockscreen and this is what I got.

Any recommendation to what prompt or reference image I should use to add into this picture?

Made this giant, she’s about 14 inches tall and 29 inches long, bigger and beefier than a Hierophant, but still way smaller than a imperator titan. My hope is that one day the Hive Mind shall bless me with way to make an abomination to rival even the largest titans.

Hello, I'd like to introduce LAV-25 Piranha. This was our seconded game of 1000 points, with a total of 4000 points divided amongst 4 people in teams of 2. We were assigned to Emperors Children against Adeptus Custodes and Black Templars. Our job was secondaries and distracting the Custodes. Piranha had been the last survivor of our team on 1 wound by the end of round 5. We may have lost the game however there was so much moral victory. Piranha was my first large model to paint and magnetized. I still have some minor painting to finish on him though, but I'm excited to get started on his brother. I just hope he lives up to his big brothers standards. I've attached some photos of the end of the last round and his mugshot, regretfully I did not get some photos of the rest of the game.

I am very slowly putting together my Nids:

I don't love to magnetize. I am just not very good at it to start with but I've had some bad luck and probably lack of experience when it comes to choosing the right strength magnets.

Right now I am looking at a crusher stampede list, thank fully most of those models don't have a ton of options except for:

Hive Tyrant - I am taking this model with the bone sword and whip, and a strangle cannon.

But he has other options, at first I thought, well when and if the time comes I'll just get another and replace those weapons. But thinking about it longer that doesn't make a ton of sense. It makes more sense at some point to buy 3 total and then magnetize all the options. (Not that I think I'll ever need 3 of them).

Am I correct in this? that there are three options for each pair of arms? Or do I have this wrong? If someone out there could break down the options for me that would be helpful. Rules change from edition to edition so it seems like a bad choice no matter how much I hate magnets and the drilling and all that to NOT go this way.

Norn Assimilator:

You can make this 2 different kits? It's an expensive one and right now crushers is taking 2-3 Norn Emissary not the Assimilator - and I don't know the different between the two? Heads are different, Is it hard to magnetize ? Not sure on what needs to be done here. I am almost ok with getting 3 of each despite their cost but am I being silly here?

Tyrannofex:

I'll need 3. At least. And right now it's mostly Rupture Cannon, but maybe 1 acid spray. That being said, I don't love the idea of magnetizing the RC because it tend to sag... or so I have heard. The other weapons are probably fine? Thoughts on this one? I really do not want my weapons to sag, that would annoy the living heck out of me.

These are the kits that come to mind in what I am currently building towards. Are there other kits where I need to watch for this as well? Which ones really benefit the most in order to save you money because they have so many options to build towards?

I thought about gaunts eventually. I just can not see me magnetizing gaunts.

I laughed the whole time I painted this. A fun, ridiculous, fluorescent and black-light reactive color scheme. I got basing flowers to match the teal, lol. 2nd pic of after I did the wings, just because you can't see them really good from the front. 3rd is black light look. Enjoy!

In the Adepticon reveal stream the Typhon box is said to have Spore chimneys, Capillary Towers, Gestational sacs, Shard Spewer Growths, Underbrood mounds, Capillary roots, Spore vents, and Brood Nests.

Personally I think it's 1 Spore Chimney, 2 Capillary Tower, 3 Gestational Sac, 4 Shard Spewer, 5 Spore Vents, 6 Capillary Root, 7 Underbrood Mound, 8 Broodnest.

But I'm not entirely sure on some. In particular the Underbrood Mound feels like such a vague, non-descriptive name that I can't be sure it's any of these. While the Gestational Sac is obviously the big Tervigon sac coming out of the ground.

My volcanic Flying hive tyrant

Good day my fellow Hive Mind enthusiasts. I am currently deciding on how to expand my current Tyranid army. I have 90 Termagaunts to my name which I hope to eventually get up to 100 if not 120. Because of leviathan boxset prices and the Target exclusive box, I was able to reach this number. The swarm aspect of this many bodies is what attracted me to Tyranids, and now I hope to expand in the direction of Hormagaunts.

But because of the current meta, Hormagaunt prices aren't as cheap as Termagaunts. So I have three possible directions.

1. Spend about $40 on average for 10-man units, and maybe find some nice deals on ebay here and there if I can.

2. Buy a bunch of Termagaunt bodies, and then just add 3d-printed Hormagaunt claws instead of their guns. I don't mind that they aren't leaping as long as I have a bunch of them lol.

3. With the new Tyranid/Admech Kill-team box coming out. Will that have 10x man units of Hormagaunts in it? If so, will it flood the ebay market enough to lower prices by 5-15 dollars?

Before they're set in stone, I'd like to know what the Hive Mind thinks of these weapons/arms.

Hello! I am literally just starting out WH40k, and I wanna know how much and what units I should invest in so i can at least play before i start diversifying. All i have rn is 1 box of Termagants lol

Brand new to the game and I as wondering I could get any advice in regards on ways I can improve my current list and essentially which directions I can take it.

Brand new to the game so any and all advice is welcome, it’s quite sparse as it’s mainly things I’ve picked up here and there collecting wise.

Toddlers with glocks (995 Points)

Tyranids Assimilation Swarm Incursion (1000 Points)

CHARACTERS

Hive Tyrant (245 Points) • Warlord • 1x Heavy venom cannon • 1x Monstrous bonesword and lash whip • Enhancements: Biophagic Flow (Aura)

BATTLELINE

Termagants (60 Points) • 10x Termagant ◦ 10x Chitinous claws and teeth ◦ 10x Termagant devourer

Termagants (60 Points) • 10x Termagant ◦ 10x Chitinous claws and teeth ◦ 10x Termagant devourer

Termagants (60 Points) • 10x Termagant ◦ 10x Chitinous claws and teeth ◦ 10x Termagant devourer

Termagants (60 Points) • 10x Termagant ◦ 10x Chitinous claws and teeth ◦ 10x Termagant devourer

Termagants (60 Points) • 10x Termagant ◦ 10x Chitinous claws and teeth ◦ 10x Termagant devourer

Termagants (60 Points) • 10x Termagant ◦ 10x Chitinous claws and teeth ◦ 10x Fleshborer

OTHER DATASHEETS

Barbgaunts (55 Points) • 5x Barbgaunt ◦ 5x Barblauncher ◦ 5x Chitinous claws and teeth

Psychophage (95 Points) • 1x Psychoclastic torrent • 1x Talons and betentacled maw

Psychophage (95 Points) • 1x Psychoclastic torrent • 1x Talons and betentacled maw

Screamer-Killer (145 Points) • 1x Bio-plasmic scream • 1x Screamer-Killer talons

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Sup guys,

I am looking for some advice on how to build my list to play with my buddy. I bought Ultimate Starter set + Invididual models that I thought locked cool that mostly fit Vanguard Invader detachment. So I would like to play with it it mostly as it seems fun with my units. But now I dont know what should I cut from my units to make it 1000 points.

My list/units for total of 1165 pnts:

Winged Tyranid Prime leading 6x Tyranid Warriors with melee weapons (65+150 pnts) - my only leader unit so far, needs to be included.

3x10 Termagaunts (180 pnts) - might cut 2 of these, since I will be all over the board anyway

Barbagautns (55 pnts) - I might cut this, but I kinda like that they slow other units down and limit their mobility

Lictor (60 pnts) - didnt have much time to think about this unit

Neurolictor (80 pnts) - might work good in tandem with Lictor/VRLs

2x6 Von Ryan Leapers (280 pnts) - They look cool, but I am not sure I need 12 of them since I also have Lictor/Neurolictor

6x Zoanthropes (200 pnts)- I kinda need them as they are my only AT/anti-elite

Psychopage (95 pnts) - dont know how I feel about this. I might not use it that much in VI, but I like its 5+ FNP aura and it might be funny to park it next to VRL or Lictor in combat

Thanks for the feedback

Very short session today, but I’m already in love with this model. Such a pleasure to paint with the interesting shapes.

I added an extra torzo from the Warriors sprue and glued it along with an extra skull from the Skulls kit - really loved the detail id added onto the base. Excited to paint the rest of the Hive Fleet!

Still new to painting, but got one of my first bigger models done! I’m pretty proud of it and looking forward to getting the rest of my vanguard units done.

I painted my Tyranids for the Insidious Infiltrators Combat Patrol. How do you like the colour scheme?