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I swear, converting the fleshborer hive into a giant scything talon was originally a joke. In hindsight, the arm is about the right size...
Let's tack it to an exocrine torso, and see how things look
Okay, there's potential here. The tail is far too small, but the torso and limbs look about right.
I hacked apart a tervigon leg, in order to get the beastie a bit more crouched. Things are looking somewhat crowded, limb-wise.
The headless 'fex in the background looks ambivalent.
First, I added a structural blob to hold everything together.
Keeping the cannon centered on the arm was trickier than one might suppose.
Inside of the arm needs some love too.
I started trying to sculpt matching plates on the top of the join. That's when I found out how much sculpting practice I need.
Starting to try to match the contours of the existing lumps, plus added a couple of tentacle-hose thingies for fun
Not too shabby, for a simple kitbash...
Hmm...this is interesting.
Ok, it's worth a shot. Let's go with this.
Ok, what the heck are these things in this crappy out-of-focus picture?
Huh. That's a bit...different...
Hey, that looks almost head-like. (The googly eyes are NOT intended to be in the final version!)
Toothy.
Starting to look monstrous.
Massive exocrine legs are massive.
How ya doin'?
How exciting...blobs. (I doubt anyone other than me will care about these work-in-progress shots. But hey, guess who's writing this Web page?)
Ooo, spikey blobs. MUCH more interesting.
You can just barely see the tongue in the lower jaw.
in theory, this will eventually be the upper jaw, eye socket, bony knobs, and sundry connective tissue.
Oh, wait. There's a tail structure, and some vents and carapace work. And the head is in one piece!
Looks like the neck plates fit.
In all seriousness, I'm really pleased with how this is coming along.
Note the extentions of the hard edges on the carapace plates...makes it look far less like an exocrine torso.
The lower portion of the mold.
The upper portion of the mold.
First cast. Not great, but I can work with these. I'll make another set, and pick the two that are least messed up.
All vents in final position.
A rare in-progress shot: a slug of green stuff, just prior to being smoothed and blended between the vent and the carapace.
Not too shabby...all vents have been blended into the carapace, and I even extended some of the vent pockmark patterns into the greenstuff.
Still some cleanup to do, but I'm pleased.
For this, I did a one-piece open mold. The trygon tail didn't have a sculpted underside anyway, so there was no need for a two-parter.
Armature wire, bent to roughly conform to the curve of the mold.
Bottom layer of greenstuff, with the armature bedded into it.
Top layer of greenstuff, smoothed and blended with the bottom.
Not bad. Need to let it dry fully before bending to shape, but I can work with that. Beats doing it from scratch.
Roughed-out tail. Whip it, whip it good.
Started blending the hips to the tail. Bad transition, so I'll need to rework a couple of the plates after the current set dry.
Starting to add recognizably Tyranidish design elements...not necessarily well, however.
Coming together.
That crest isn't entirely even, but oh well.
I'm pretty pleased with the (mildly scrotal) ammo sac. The bottom part is from the rupture cannon's left arm, the rest is greenstuff.
'Pardon me', said the monster. 'Might I have a word?'
Nice gloves, but I poop out things bigger than you.
Experimenting with settings. The one to the far left is the default setting, which is nice for visible engraving. The one to the far right is the deepest engraving....not so nice to look at, but better for a mold.
The final mold, glued together. I used some different acrylic scrap, translucent red this time.
I went with Apoxie sculpt because it dries more rigidly than green stuff.
Came out pretty easily.
Dried enough to handle, and the disk to which it will be glued. The red tint is due to traces of plastic dust left over from the laser engraving process, which I didn't bother to try to clean out of the mold.
Spore chimney thing, held on with a pair of magnets, plus the random stone steps of whatever it is that is in the process of shattering under Barbie's weight.
The leg looks kinda silly, floating freely like that.
Some random pebbly rubble, and an extra spore thing.
I'll be curious to see how visible the wound count numbers are when I'm done basing this thing.
Finally did the flesh on the right side of the head. Not great, but better than the left side.
Bulked out the carapace where the cannon arms will be fitting.
Cleaned up the joints on the rear legs a bit.
Time to bite the bullet and permanently attach the head. Note the small sausages of greenstuff at the joint.
Sausage number 2, although less critical than the sides...it'll be under the carapace plates, unless i change my mind.
Sausage number 3.
Post-sausage blending.
It doesn't look bad because it's out of focus...it looks bad because it's not very good.
Ok, resting the hat on top helps.
Bulldog got swung by his tail a few times, then had an amorous encounter with a snapping turtle.
Scorponok!
Getting close...need eyes and ammo tubes, and a whole lotta cleanup.
Airbrushed some grey Vallejo primer on the beastie to start things off, plus black on the base
Airbrushed GW's Castellan Green (thinned with Liquitex airbrush medium, of course) on the carapace plates.
Airbrushed GW's Ushtabi Bone (also thinned with Liquitex medium) on the skin.
Since I modelled the mouth too closed to get a %^&*ing paintbrush in there, I thinned some GW Bugman's Glow and blasted it into the mouth with the airbrush, then used the remainder to lay a little base color on the fleshy ammo sack.
Drenched in GW's Carroburg Crimson.
GW's Abaddon Black on the fingernails, Averland Sunset on the eyes (head and cannons)
Base coat pretty much done, plus some GW Rakarth Flesh/Seraphim Sepia/Rakarth/Pallid Wych Flesh/Nurgle's Rot on the mouth.
A before-and-after shot, showing the difference between the skin base coat alone, and the layers: GW's Screaming Skull as the main layer, then a 1-to-2 mix of Screaming Skull and Rakarth Flesh for the highlights.
The base, in progress. Base coat of GW's Dawnstone, followed by a wash of Agrax Earthshade, and (as can be seen in the upper right quadrant) a reapplied layer of Dawnstone on the top surface of the cobblestones.
Second layer of Dawnstone applied.
A bit of GW's Administratum Grey to highlight the dais and some of the broken stones, plus a wash of Carroburg Crimson on the melted portions of the dais. Also note the Roman numerals/wound counters scratched into the stones around the chimney.
Getting there. Still need to finish highlighting the skin, and haven't even begun work on the carapace plates.
Damn, that's a thick neck.
I'm pretty happy with the way the base is coming out, although I wish I'd smoothed and finished the edges BEFORE the rest of the work.
It takes a big critter to make a dakkafex look inadequate.
What do you mean? I AM smiling...
i should probably finish up the base one of these days.
Ain't no thing like me 'cept me.
No, I'm not compensating for anything.
It's a good thing my guns have eyes, because I sure can't see a damn thing in front of me.
Toxicrene/Maleceptor Sprue 1 - Front


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Toxicrene/Maleceptor Sprue 1 - Back


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Toxicrene/Maleceptor Sprue 2 - Front


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Tyrannofex/Tervigon Sprue 1 - Front


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Tyrannofex/Tervigon Sprue 2 - Front


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Tyrannofex/Tervigon Sprue 3 - Front


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Aunt Daisy
Sue Blumenfeld, age 2 - 1949
Walt Blumenfeld, ROTC pic
James Brown Normington (Grandad), Phd Graduation
Aunt Daisy - Nathan Justus marriage
Sue Blumenfeld's HS Senior Pic
Marvin Blumenfeld (Grandpa). Served in China, as a radar operator who never got a radar set, so quartermaster?
Sue Blumenfeld's Great-Aunt Bess Reeve (next to man), Bell Telephone Office Orillia, Ontario 1920s
Unknown post-mortem. Back has photographer info: G.E. Whiten, Mississigaga St East, Orillia, Ontario
Sue Blumenfeld at prom, 1966, with "Joel"
Walt Blumenfeld's Uncle Don Blumenfeld
Jean (Grandma) Blumenfeld's father and stepmother (Alma?)
Jean (Grandma) Blumenfeld's Grandfather (Ukrainian Catholic). Unknown if he was a Gott (father's side)
ean Gott Blumenfeld (Grandma) WWII
ean Gott Blumenfeld (Grandma) High school or college
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W. Cudworth - Margaret Thistlethwaite Wedding (Grandmom's grandparents), 1880
Location: bride's home Birkenhead
Jean (Grandma) Blumenfeld's mom
Jean (Grandma) Blumenfeld's parents
Isabella Maimie Eveleigh Brown (Grandad's Mom)
Bert Normington (Grandad's Dad). Stockbroker/investment advisor, who predicted Crash of 29 and advised his clients to get out in August. As a result, was able to put Grandad through college (including doctorate) during the Great Depression.
Margaret Thistlethwaite Cudworth (Grandmom's grandmother) Painted 1929 by J.D. Mathews
Isabella Maimie Eveleigh Brown (Grandad's Mom)