Such a shame GW have just announced they're discontinuing the dimachaeron. Such an amazing model

@EmeraldFatalis

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully it will get a new model soon, like how Deathleaper is getting one.

Make those teeth silver for the last step and you have them extra spicy. Great work

Geiger also did the creature design for the 1995 "Species" and its sequels.

Stunning work man! The colourshift paints are amazing!

Awesome video, my brother! I love all the parts with the grainy green feed. It, along with your stunning conversion and paint job, really captures the feel of the movies! Keep up the badassery! ~ Wolfbrother Methos

Whenever i look up tyranid paint schemes i inevitably end up looking at xenomorph versions

Great work, love those colours together....heard of green stuff but not seen it used.... thanks for the demo 👍🐻

👍👍 just awesome, horrifying! That red basing with the red shifting paint 😊👌 Great looking monsters and the whole swarm together looks just perfect 👍👍!

@philurbaniak1811

Жыл бұрын

6:49 I'm enjoying this exact process myself 😊👌

love this , turned out amazing

first off, amazing job on those models and perfect timing as i was wondering what I would do with the included tyranid models in the leviathan box set. And second... who else now has an urge to make a colonial marine themed kill team to face off against them?

Like the beard, Mr Nation, I think it works nicely. Your Nids look formidably awesome, great effort.

In future any cutting of resin is probably best done inside the computer before printing it pout

Thank you , Mr Elston . 🐺

Heresy! Phenomenal looking heresy, but still heresy!

Used GSW Chamaeleon paints on my Necrons gauss pipes pre Indomitus and any model with the Living-Metal keyword. Also on some actual Prodos Xenomorph models too and have plans on painting up the Leviathan nids in the same fashion, then I just saw this video and was glad to see the idea is not totally insane! Not entirely convinced on the green weapons, but as yet not come up with a viable alternative. PS Tesseract Glow goes so smoothly through an airbrush and gives an outstanding finish as my Aeldari Wave Serpents will attest too :) Great video - subbed.

so cool, it s awesome !

Amazing project! Respect.

Amazing video - although I’m slightly shocked, alien is my favourite film series and Korn are my favourite band, yet I never knew Geiger designed the mic stand! Saw the clip and looked it up - awesome!

Beautiful work sir 😁❤️👍🏻

Awesome Xenonids!~

Looking great!

Simple but effective! The colour shift oaints are awesome. They seem to work better through an airbrush... Ive only used them with a brush but still decent

@elstonation

Жыл бұрын

With nids getting a bit range refresh means I get to test this out on all the new gribblies

@DrangusKahn

3 ай бұрын

@@elstonation Where did you get the alien crusher head from? and the heads at 3:31? I've been looking for months online, thanks.

@elstonation

3 ай бұрын

@@DrangusKahn papsickle miniatures have an alien range on their store and it's part of the early sets

I like the headswap conversions. I'm not a fan of the Neon green weapons, I like it when its a bit subtle. I can see why you did it. If you were going more for an Alien vibe the weapons could have been highlighted Grey and Sliver.

Very cool effect. What silver paint did you use for drybrushing?

Sooooo Cool!!

Im a little late with this one but might I ask which glossy black primer you purchased?

Thats what I was looking for. Thanks man! It never occured to me to get 3D-printed Xenomorph heads xD Now I just need to find the right sizes (don't have a printer myself). Also the recommendation of colors is much appreciated. One caveat: I don't know if the fine resin-dust that originates from cutting the resin with a rotating powertool will be kept inside a normal vacuum cleaner. It may just be blown out at the other end. For example when woodworking with powertools, its highy recomended to use a special vac with special filter which retains the fine wood dust (on a professional level its mandatory) - and I can't imagine the dust from wood to be more harmfull than from resin. So maybe its better to just cut the resin with a sharp knife manually. I imagine the little pieces of waste-resin that originate here are big enough to stay safely inside a normal vac, because they are not dust. But I don't know, I am no scientist. Just wanted to point this out. Back on topic: I never understood why GW made Tyranids buglike instead of "giger-like" (pronounciation is "geeger" btw, like "geek"). If I am not mistaken, the game Space Hulk was inspired by the films Alien 1 and Alien 2 (and all other sequels suck, imo^^). Thanks again for the very timely inspiration, for I will soon start a new army of "Tyramorphs"/"Xenonids". Regards. And sorry for the bad english.

@elstonation

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could inspire that's a good point on the resin dust

@JKRavenBlood

Жыл бұрын

The reason they are modeled even more into xenomorphs is because of copyrights. In a former codex edition with their current appearance, you could give them more variation upgrades like acidic blood. Right now only 1 tyrannid lifeform which already has it as a standard upgrade still has it. Because GW was infringing upon the I.P. of the Aliens. And GW didn't want to get in a lawsuit with the likes of Hollywood where they would be on the defensive, as a note; the house of Mouse currently holds it when they bought Fox . . .

So cool!

What does the alcohol do to the sand before the pva glue on top?

Yeeeah xenonids!! Game over man!

This is so cool, were you able to find just the heads from the creator? Or did you have to cut them from the individual files?

@elstonation

Жыл бұрын

Some have just the heads but they are the larger models. The smaller ones I had to cut with mesh mixer

OMG !!! What is that tool you used to roll out a perfectly ribbed tube of green stuff?!?! I'm about to make a tyranid army and I have been thinking about doing a xenomorph mod to it.

Awesome models and vid, the only thing that could have made them better would be silver teeth!

0:00 "...full of many hammers" is kind of vague, so I spent some time researching and calculating the precise amount of them. Turns out that there are _exactly_ 40000 hammers, specifically of the war variety, which we could compactly write as "40k Warhammers". Or the other way around, both ways should work I guess

Where do you get the heads from?

What kind of silver did you use?

Awesomeness!!

Where can i buy the stl for the xeno morph heads, the ones you used where superb

@elstonation

7 ай бұрын

There are a few free ones on thingyverse but the other I got from papsikle miniatures on my mini factory

Hi that's exactly the look i would like to get for my intruders in nemesis the board game ( they're xenomophs but without paying royalties to Aliens) So if i got it clear is - Shinny black primer - GSW colorshift cobalt blue - dry brush with some metalic paint? - paint it over again with a translucent black ink ( could you give the name or link vallejo premium candy black?) - then the green details? Mytrin or something like that is what i hear but pretty sure I'm not getting it right - for the tiny green details i have tesseract glow Could you confirm?

Can I get a list of paint colors

What is that Plastic Instrument in 7:00 used to make the tubing with the ridges?

@elstonation

8 ай бұрын

That's the tentacle maker from green stuff world 😁

@EternalRoman

8 ай бұрын

@@elstonation I... I need that... I must get it, Lol. Thanks for the info 😊👍

Were get stl files at

Wooooooah !

Looks awesome... now.. add a tiny amount of PVA glue around the teeth for slime/ drool and youll nail it. Yo know your next army conversion dont you... colonial marines as Imperial guard

@elstonation

Жыл бұрын

I was soo tempted to do this. Possibly an idea for another video with 10th edition models i think

Absolutely love the xenomorph colour. I just don't understand the green...

Aaaakshouallie they have eyes. The semi dome covers the human looking skull structure.

@pst5345

10 ай бұрын

edit: semi transparent dome

Generations of hobbists have tried to recreate Xenomorph look on Tyranids but in my opinion it never looks well. Xenomorphs are simply too monotone, the final result is that the minis look unfinished / based with black primer & thats it.

11:03 ayo?!😅

For future reference, it's pronounced "GEE-ger," (hard G) so you know. The lack of eyes and the total siege/hive mentality they display, the total commitment to destruction they display as well as the overall aesthetic, is what makes the Xenomorphs terrifying to me. Kinda like....Tyranids! I'd be shocked if Tyranids were not inspired by "Aliens" in any manner. These guys look amazing, and I have an ongoing goal of trying to paint Warmachine Cryx miniatures in a manner inspired by the actual Giger Alien artwork that I'm still...in need of practice with. *wince* I did, however, pull off a reasonable facsimile of a Dog Runner from "Alien 3" on an Extreme Carnivean, though...

You should have given Duncan Rhodes credit for your use of this idea, bro!

@elstonation

8 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for commenting. Duncan released his video on xenomorphs in April 2022. I had done my army and released a video on it in February 2022 sooooooooo 😁

А в 11 издании - GW добавят Хищника?! Вау! 🎉

You madman

Did he say Mute Green?

@elstonation

10 ай бұрын

Lol moot green 😁

However much I think the Nids should be retconned out of 40K, managing to be more boring than Tau (quite an achievement!) I like the video and conversions, well done.

This video is pointless and irresponsible. Why would you go through all this trouble if you're already 3D printing? Just print the Papsikels models. They look amazing and certainly far more like xenomorphs than anything GW has ever made. Your final product doesn't really end up looking distinct enough from regular Tyranids to be worth all of the dangerous techniques you utilized to make these models. The cost of this is also grossly prohibitive. You've already invested money in a 3D printer, and taken the time to learn how to print resin, which isn't easy. You're then going to buy hundreds of dollars of GW miniatures on top of that? Why own a 3D printer if you're going to do that? I'm left baffled that anyone would ever think any of this was a good idea.

@jimi216

Жыл бұрын

Wow, I bet you’re great fun at parties.

@paladinpariah325

Жыл бұрын

@@jimi216 I'm pretty boring since I still have all my fingers as I'm not nearly as blind and reckless as the content creator here.

@sebbysmith

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like this isnt for you. I think this is rad n i think it inspires people to think outside the box.

@luke7834

Жыл бұрын

Ha, what a cumt