Sooo, I'd foolishly assumed I'd already created a post about this project, but apparently not :/
A good while back, someone very nicely commented on my original Dactylis conversion here on Modern Synthesist, saying they'd love to have one of their own. We started talking, figured out what he was looking for, and it evolved into this commission. I'm very glad it did, as I'm pretty proud of how the beast turned out, and I feel like he does a giant Tyranid gunbeast far more justice than modest Exocrine >:)
As he's done now, I'll share the completed photos in this post, and then I'll go through the build process in a separate post for anyone who enjoys that kind of stuff.
Here's the finished beast in all his glory:
Though his older sister, who I built from a Carnifex, is chilling in Germany with Moloch and the rest of Hive Fleet Ouroboros, I do still have my original gunbeast, the Exocrine I converted from a Carnifex about a decade ago (more on him here). So here is the new beauty alongside his older brother for comparison:
He certainly took a PILE of work :|
That looks excellent! And much better suited in scale than GW's Haruspex/Exocrine kit. When I first heard they were doing those, I was hoping for something more like the Hierodules in size.
ReplyDeleteThanks! It isn't actually THAT MUCH larger than the exocrine model, though. I mean, it's taller, but not very much longer, other than the tail. A Heirodule-sized one would be pretty huge...but if you were looking for one of those, I happen to have a hierodule lying around...
Deletethis is so f***ing great!
ReplyDeleteawesome job mate!! :D
Thanks! Glad you like it!
DeleteThat is super cool - Awesome work, man!
ReplyDeleteThanks friend! It took a lot of work, so I'm glad you enjoyed it.
DeleteAbsolutely love your work. I looked around and had difficulty finding a stat block for the Dactylis... do you know where I could find it? Im potentially interested in commissioning a work from you if I can, but would like to playtest it a bit before hand.
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely the wrong guy to ask about that as I've driven by concepts for monsters, and not stats. I think the client who commissioned this was just going to use it as an Exocrine. Plenty of stats right there!
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