Most Podels Again: Tyranid Psyker-Beast Conversion!

 

It's me again! This is also a completed creature, but I will get to posting current early WIPs for the upcoming Nidvember soon. 

This fella is - on technicality a kitbash since the forearms are from hormagaunts, but the rest is just zoanthrope kit & scratch-sculpting.

And that does include the itty bitty hands! Those were surprisingly not hard to make, just some donuts shaped layed out, let it cure, and then smoothen out details after. 

This is the WIP pic of mostly finished symbiote. Design is vaguely based off H.R. Giger's early concept of facehuggers. The thing looks frail, but the tips of its legs boring into the cranium is the actual pinning point! Same goes for tail! And then the body was just sculpted on top. So it's actually kind of sturdy, for the most part.

Lastly, the wavy things on the tail you can see at the start of the post were inspired by mantles you can sometimes witness on cephalopods like squid or cuttlefish.

 

Pretty satisfied with the results! I think I might try & convert harder one of the more regular models by adding some bits on top with a dash of brush-on primer, since I feel hesitant to strip the whole thing.