Infinity is the new eternal

Greetings, everybody!

As some of you might have noticed, I have dissapeared from certain areas of the internet. On the other side, have I emerged at other places. This post shall enlighten those, who have wondered why this is so. Others might be able to identify with my situation or not.... ;)

I had never been as loyal to GW miniatures as GW would have liked me to. The lack of nicely sculpted female model invited me to some adventures across the border of Space Marines and the Grim Dark Future and even today, I can hardly resist when Hasslefree throws the next round of awesomeness into the ring.
Aside from picking up a model here and there (mostly on the SPIEL in Essen every year) I have never ventured further. I had my 40k Universe and lived under the impression, that everything I desired would fit in there.And for most of my tabletop life, this impression was correct. I found the escape from RL in games, campaigne, novels and ofcause the minitures. I joined a "community", took part in shaping that community and took responsibility for all the funny things that could happen there.

Especially over on Warpshadow I found people, that are like me and I have found many friends, who are more than just people that share a common hobby.
The fact, that I worked for GW was probably another reason for my so-long-loyalty. Lots of people from work turned over the years into friends, I don't want to miss and again, these friendships were not only funded on the fact that we enjoy toying around with metal and plastic miniatures.

My happy life in the 41st millenium could have gone forever...
...until I finished my studies, quit my job at GW and was overwhelmed by the tasks a grown-up-life throws at you.

I an instant everything changed. I have never been happy with the politics that work in GW and don't get me started on marketing and how employees are treated. But the more distance I put between me and everythng GW related, the more I didn't like what I saw.

The, out of the blue, Sedition Wars struck like a guilded missle.

I had everything I needed: A boardgame (so I didn't have to play in skull encrusted ruins anymore), a managable amount of models (no more 20+ Units to paint), a cineastic game setting I didn't had to come up by myself (take that "table-quarter-mission") and no more gothic-structures on scifi soldiers (have you seen the flying thing the dark angles sport? Looks like a flying cathedral... in a bad way...) and finally a game, that was playable in the time I could afford for it. Ahhh... plus an awesome little community and great customer services.

And part of my peers, that were willing to try something new. I guess that was the most important part...

Sadly the battle for Alabaster eventually came to an end. And coming up with missions on your own was way more difficult than we had expected. So before our newly found braveness in exploring new universes would subside again, we decided to venture out again and see were the tides would lead us.

Guess what...

But before we come to the obvious, a little something changed aswell. Games Workshop in all its wiseness fired almost all personel, that was standing in a store. The whole support structure, well working teams, friends and social structures torn apart in dubious stroke.
Not nessessary to say, that the doubts I had nutured all those years turned into a big blob of dissapointment, that covered the one thing that could have dragged me back: the new Tyranid codex.
When that was as dissapointing as I had feared, my heart and soul was finally free from the bonds that had tied me to that company.

And what do you do with freedom? Yes, you sell it instantly to the highest bidder :D

In this chase, it was Corvus Belli with Infinity.

I won't start the high praise-song. Let's put it this way: Infinity had to offer everything I had been looking for:
Cineastic scenarios, an ethusiastic community, awesome miniatures, great terrain options and designs, a company policy, that (as far as I can see it) I really like... and my peers, that liked everything above aswell.

Since then, I feel like I am  12 years old again, having my eyes pop out with all the awesome stuff available... but this time, I can afford most of it :D


So, I hope this explains a bit how I am were I am, and where I am not.

And as a visible sign of all this, I added a new section above, that leads you to all the Infinity stuff I am doing.

Expectations and other errors

Greetings everybody.
Hyrda has finally reached the actual state of technology. This enables me to share my ramblings, thoughts and other stuff in almost real time.

What has happened? Well, since Feb ( as you might recall, that was pretty much the time when is blog slowly turned to hiatus) I am proud owner of a fairphone.  Well, I don't want to advertise here for electronic goods, but this project seems to be one of the "good" (good as in Superman-good).

Back to topic, expectations. This phone is one good example... I expected... Well something that probably only exists on the Enterprise. But instead it had nicks and nuts and sometimes even refused to work properly.

I could have easily switched back to my old phone or to some other brand. But I overcame my... Frustration and found out, that one of the reasons for several mis-functions were my own fault.

The same happened to me with my Nomads. Yes, I have officially left the path of GW And Warhammerb40k. But that is written on another page yet to be written.
My new passion lies in hackers, drones, skirmish warfare and the reenactment of one of my favourite series ever (Ghost in the shell)... Infinity. I am highly addicted to this game...

My chosen fraction, nomads, can have to really dirty tricks up their sleeves.
And here is the part where I get back to the beginning. I had 2 Gamez in a row today, which both left me pretty frustrated. I have questioned the game, the army... Even the state my models were in ( am I the only one who thinks models tend to die faster if you haven't painted them properly?).

It took some time to realise something... It wasn't any of the above. If I was my bloody fault. And my expectations. On how things should be and how things shouldn't be.

Next time, I should stick to my survival-strategy that has helped navigate through all the Strom's life has thrown at me: look the maelstrom in the eye, don't make and plan and full force, Mr. Jonson.

Thank you, internet for listening to my brainwash.

How to: Bases Ark-Style

Greetings Everybody!

I have been asked a few times, how I did the Bases on my Infintiy Miniatures.

First of all, I use the bases from Sedition Wars. They are plain, give lots of details and variation and fit prtty much imho.

I guess the pictures are quite selfexplaining, but here are some thoughts in advance:

1. If you like the orange, grab GWs old Macharius Solar Orange where ever you can find it. Watered down it works wonderfull for rust, since it dries brigter than it looks, has differnt colours and tones and created this random appearance I like in rust. Sadly it is OOP...

2. Sponges: People playing Infinity will have come a cross tons of it and I have collected then ever since. These sponges work best imho, since others are to rough.

3. Vallejo Masking Fluid: First time I have seen someone use that was on these Infintiy Miniatures Step-By-Step thingies provided by Studio Giraldez ( StudioGiraldez ). Trick with this stuff is: Use old brushes, since they will be going down the drain. Use spronges for most of your work. The masking fluid will dry pretty quickly (withing minutes) and you won't be able to wash out your brush. So better use something disposable.
Best thing is to try it on something first to get a nick of things... before ruining one of your favourite brushes, like I did.

What you need:
-your bases
- black and white primer
- Paints. Since I still have lots of GW stuff I am using these, but the should be no reason, why you can what ever is to your liking. Only exception is the macharius solar orange I guess...
So, you need brown and orange tones for the "rust" and what ever you want to cover it up with.
- Sponges
-Vallejo Masking Liquid

Step 1 - Rusting
I primed the bases black and then gave them a dusting of white (means I don't cover every single inch of the base/model in white, but apply the spray so lightly in short bursts, that the lines stay black and the overall appearance is more grey than white)

Step 2
For starters I used a pretty watered down dark brown.

Step 3
With an  big random brush I mix some organe and lighter brown tones into the still wet dark brown. The brush helps to create random structures and swirls in the colour.

Step 4After everything has dried, I mix the Marcharius Solar Organge with lots and lots of water...

 

...and pour in generoulsy over the bases.

Step 5 - Masking
Prepare your masking stuff. Ofcause you can hold the sponge with your fingers, but I found it quite helpfull to use the pincers as seen on the picture.

 Step 6
Now comes the fun part. Soak up some masking liquid with the sponge. Depending on the size of paint laking you want toachieve, it might be wise to dab some of the liquid of the sponge. otherwise you will have big blobs of liquid on your bases.

Now you lightly dab some liquid on the base. Don't worry about not reaching every corner...

Step 7
... since now you can use an OLD brush to conncet the dots and fill out the deepest places, the sponge can't reach. Remind yurself all the time: what every you paint now, will stay orange. I  always forget that and get a little trigger happy...
Another hint at this point: The thicker the liquid is applyed, the easier you can rub if off afterwards.

Step 8 - Covering
For my bases I use a tourquise in several layers, applyed with a sponge. The reason for the sponge isthe texture it leaves on the even surfaces. I want the paint to be a bit bumpy and texturised. It also goes really fast. If you do this technique on model like tanks or TAGs, you probably want to use a brush or (if you have) an airbrush to apply the coverlayer.

 First with a slight mix of black in it.

Then a little brighter... and brighter...

 Step 9 - Unmasking
Here comes the fun part. I haven't found another technique than to rub with your fingers over the covered areas and the peel the making off...

In the end you will get something like this:

Now a couple of metallics and you are done. The trick with the metallics is to use a rather dark one first and the really slightly pick up the edges with a bright metal.


So. That's it. I really hope you found this usefull of some sort :D

Honest Ed's Meds - First Branch SHop open

"There are two reasons for you to go to "honest Eds Meds". You can't pay the quality and the price the Haqqislam asks for their treatments. Or the nurses." 
- Joshua Blohart, Streetvendor, Silas Ark

 
Grettings everybody!
This post is to celebrate the first branch of Honest Ed's Meds opening it's doors.

Honest Ed's you ask? Well... that was the first bulding I made for Infinity:

And since people liked it, I encouraged on Eds behalf, people to join the franchise and ope up their own store. Most simple way, glue that sign on a building of your choice.

I have to admit, that I have never expected anyone to actually do so. But there has!

And so: Spot light:

Capt. Nuss from the o-12.de Forum made the first step to unimaginable wealth

See the rest of his awesome work here






Feel free to open up a store yourself!
You already did and I missed it? Pleas email me!

How To: Walls

Greetings Archivists!

As some of you might have realised, I am not humming and puffing on the new nids.
Long story short... just can't do it right now. No niddy juice.

But I have tons of "Build Stuff for Inifinity-Juice" right now.

The MAS Terrain is absolutly fantastic (aside from some assembly issues I had...) and the Concret Walls they are offering were the first Terrain pices that used those awesome acrylic Ad-Boards, which made me instantly fall in love with that terrain. But more about Ads and the like at another spot.

Playing my first games of Inifinity, I realised, we needed LOTS of terrain, but I am not that rich to afford all the stuff I want to have. So I have to settle for more affordable solutions and today I want to share my approach on "Affordable Walls" with you.

Materials from the (well sorted) Home-Improvement-Store
- unwaxed corktiles (from the floor department) I had 50cm x 50cm x 0,6cm
- the white, hollow plastic pole I have no english word for. I found it in the "metal department" in the Home Improvement Store (again... it was very well sorted) where they had all sorts of different sizes. I chose a 18mm wide.
But you can probably use simply a piece of wood, with the right measurements.
- Filler (best to use, some that stays a little flexible, probably wood filler. I use simple wall filler and got some cracks now :/ )

Things you might have at home:
- Cutter
- metal rules (ideal with some sort of angle)
- PVA-Glue (I used fast curing for maximum speed)
- Superglue
- Rasp or Sandpaper
- Saw

The HOW TO:
Well, I guess the pictures I took are quite selfexplaining.
I made 2 different lenght: 10cm and 20cm. I was picturing miniatures running along that walls and since 10cm is a quite common  movement in Infinity, I thought that whould fit.
The hights I used:
Wall 7cm high, Pole at the end of the Wall 8cm high.

Step 1

Cut the wall pieces. Since the walls hould stand by their own and should appear solid, I used 2 sheets of one wall. On the picture you can notice that most cork tiles have a rough surface and a smooth one. Make sure you choose always the same on the outsides. I chose the rougher ones, so I got more texture on the outside.

Step 2

Glue.... obvious.

Make sure you don't spoil your pants with the glue coming out everywhere... I did.


Step 3

Saw the poles.

Step 4

Glue the Walls and the Poles together. I used PVA glue. Works sofar.

Step5

Use the filler to blend the area where the two tiles are glued together.

I used my finger to mimic the texture.

Step 6 -  You can skip this, if you use wood poles.

Step 7 Et voila!

Creating a little assembly line got me a lot of walls in less than 2 hours.

Next time... Paint on my Walls!

I hope you enjoyed this and found my musings helpfull!

How To: Weathering on MAS-Infinity Terrain

Greetings Archivists!

Lately I have entertained myself with lots and lots of Infinity stuff.

And I plan on doing so even longer, since it really cought me.

For those of you not knowing to much about that game...
it is awesome
and it needs tons off terrain.

That for, I have been fiddling around with all things concerning that aspect of our beloved hobby and I will in the forseable future provide you with more and more details of my journey. It is quite a differnce to work with stuff you haven't been working with for a long time of even trying out new things.

So, today, I want to show you the basics of my approach on the Micro Art Studio Infnitiy Terrain.

So basically I was using the instructions provided by the masters of the brush, the Lords of bananas, the kongs of kings...
Massive Voodoo

BUT!

There is always a but :D

My approach was quite a bit diffrent. Terrain shall not be as time consuming as a Golden Demon entry, so I took the liberty to change a few things.
I would recommend watching the videos first, to get an idea of what I am showing you and then continue with the following.

Materials:
- Colour Primer from Army Painter (got it here)
- MAS Terraindesigned for Infintiy (also got it here)
- salt with big grains
- normal salt
- Hairspray

Step 1: Prime

Prime everything with Leather Brown Primer spray. By now, I tend to give the terrain some random spots with Rat Fur Primer.
In the Massive Voodoo-Tutorial, they go forth and give everything a ddipping with other browntones. You surely could do that, but I wanted to keep it fast and simple and IMHO on a simple terrain piece it won't make such a differnce.

Step 2: Salt

If I recall correctly, the big Apes recommend mixing the salt types and giving it a good crush to gain various grain sizes. Again, to much swallowed up time. I did the following steps:

After the hairspray had been applied, I sprinkled some of the large-grain-salt onto the piece. You will notice that the big grains won't stick everywhere. To fill these gaps, I used the nomal salt and sprinkled that on the areas where I wanted a large area of masking.

Step 3: Colour

Take the colour the buliding is supposed to look like and give it a spray. I used Skeleton Bone Primer, but I have tried the same technique with other primers aswell and they work great.
You should think about the contrast, though. If you are aiming for a bright building color, the dark brown works great. If you want a darker color (i.e. blue) you might think about using some even darker brown of some carefull shots with black primer to get everything a little toned down. 

Now, here comes the deal with the primer:
In the MV-Video, they are able to remove the 2nd layer of color, mimicing scratches and bigger flakes.
Since the spraypaint is a primer, you can't do that ( I will try and use the GW-Color-Spray for that soon. They claim to have non-primer-prperties... maybe it works that way.). Whereever you get paint, it will stay there.
The benefit is, you don't have to seal everything, before putting more paint on the model (again... timesaver).

When I used the salt-technique in bigger amounts, I have had the problem, that the salt mixes with water and after the water had vanished, I had salt stains everywhere. To avoid that and since we can't remove the paint anyway, I used a big dry brush to get rid of the salt (time saved again!)

After that had been done I used a sponge to get some more paint-chipping  on the wall and some pigments, to tone down some parts of the wall.

Well, that was basically it.
I hope you found this helpfull.

Nextt ime I will have a look into Graffiti on your walls. The easy way.
And how to use the bitz left over of your MAS terrain to your advantage.

Until next time.

Review: The Design of the new Nids

Greetings Archivists!

The wait is over!
The Fleets have gathered the spawning vats have brooded, the nornqueens done what ever they do best, the biomass has been reshaped and flung at us.

Tyranids have been my biggest love on the tabletop battlefield. And though I can't look back on such a glorious past as Master Moloch does, I still feel like being a strong part of the Tyranids history. So, with this experience on my back I want to turn on the new models today.

[DISCLAIMER]
1. I haven't seen any of the models up close, so I can only work from the pictures provided by Games Workshop. But since they leave almost no corner covered, I feel its a good place to start from.
2. I have no love for the companys HR-management, price- or IP-policy. I haven't seen rules, point costs or anything game related.
So I am working from what I am seeing and that are some pieces of creature designs, that are at this point the latest in a constatly growing and on going evolution of space monsters.
3. From time to time I will eventually slip into one of the above mentioned, since, especially financial reasons, have their influence on the design process the moiniatures have undergone. Please forgive me, but I never claimed to be objective.

General apperance

Well, when I looked at the stuff they have thrown at usfor the first time, my first thought was... not so impressive. Flying monster... check. Big Bugs... check. Some medium sized stuff... check.

Nothing of the rather excotic rumours like zoanthrope-boxes or drop pods have made it into appearance.

The pictures leaked a while ago got me excited. For about 10 seconds. Then I turned back on the Nomads I am painting up for Infinity right now. Something that would have never happend 2 years ago.

So, with a pretty low expectations I had a closer look at the single models yesterday.

Warriors

Well, what do you expect? A new head design? Something extraordinary?

Sorry... nope.

The warriors were the reason I started with Tyranids in the first place. I just love these models and though they are a thounds (felt) years old, the concept still works. I got used to it, it doesn't blow me off the roof, but iti is like meeting an old friend.

In his new car.

The subtile changes, well, better additions, they have made are design wise straight in line. The extremities are the same proportion. Even with the new weapons they got. When you comepare the swords to the scytals they even out pretty well. This way the model doesn't get top or bottom heavy and gains a pretty solid appearance.

The prime follows a pretty simple, yet effective idea, orks base their civilisation on: The bigger is the boss (makes it ieasier for snipers :))

 Adding the Prime to the box is a nice idea (though I figure everybody has made their own by now, one way or another).What really conviced me are the details here.

The glands now actually fit on the model wiithout GS-Work or sawing of pieces. I know the old ones were made for a couple of different models, but I have seen enough poorly fixed glads in my hobby life.

A nice addition is the tail tip aswell. I loved that in the fex sprue and seeing that on y warrior seems... right.

Conclusion:

Nothing spectacular, but the additions made fit nicely and enhance the general apperance. The heads got no big change, which is a minor let down in my book, since on of the most important part of a model is the face.

 

 

 Hive Guard/ Tyrantguard

A good friend of mine bough a ton of the old (old as metal-old old) Hive Guards, since "he liked" the model.

I have to admit, the old model was "surprising" back then, but got old pretty fast. So when I heard a bout "new" models, my expectations were... again... pretty low. (aside the fact that the fluff for the hive guardsis pretty... random at best...)

But I couldn't be wronger (about the models... not the fluff).

As I said, to me the face it the most important part of a nid. These models don't have eyes (Gger proved to us that this is step one when you want to do something creepy). Plus the carapcace shielding their eyes are kind of boxy, giving the impression of a visor. Very cool

The weapon is the next striking thing on the HIve Guards. For the first time I can remember the weapon is longer that the arm it is mounted to. This gives the whole thing a great appearance, like is tis actaully a rifle of some sort, that the creature gets its arm attached to. Not the otherway around. The Guards left arm, with the split lower arm is an ace idea aswell (Use the 360°) .
I can't say much about the game efficency of the "harpoon weapon" but especially the tip makes me think of the pain this would cause, once you get hit by it. A very strong visual message transported here: You will get hit by a spine with claws that sends you into an electro-shocky death, if you aren't killed by the impact.
Nice.

The general appearance of the beasts, especially the nuckle-walking aspect looks way more believable and supports the image of a close to unstoppable force coming at you.

The Tyrantguard works the same way, though their "hands" are much bigger. The "tearing an ultramarine to pieces"-arms are a bit to much for me (though i don't fancy ultramarines), bu the rest give the Guards a quite dynamic appearance, as if they can keep up with hteir master.

 

The weapons they sport range for me from really innovative interpretation of the syctals to the WFT? leach-tentacle-whip. Don't get me wrong, I am all in for tentacles, but that whip seems googfy not creepy. 

The shouldguard on the otherhand is a pretty simple yet effective way to support the purpose these beasts were made for.

A really nice touch was the chtin-carapce. Looking pretty ordinary on the first spot, I know, but when you turn the 360° Image to have a better view on the middle limb you will see what I mean.

The nids have sometimes the problem of having their chitin carapce "glued" on. Simon Egan came up with a solution for this on his first forge world models (the hierodules... just in case...). The carapce here is hold in place by something that looks like a clamb would use to keep its shell shut. This texture found its way onto the Tyrantguard... pretty cool, if you ask me. 

The feeling that doesn't leave me alone when looking at the new guards is thet the designers had a really good look at these aswell...

Conclusion:

Aside from some minor points, are really well done concept.

Harpy / Hive Crone

 

First I  have to tell you that the Hive Crone is called in german "SCHWARMDRUDE"!

DRUDE!

 

SERIOUSLY?!?!??!

I know, starting from the "hierdule" down to the "crone" all the words have wierd meanings and stand for old wierdo-women. But who on earth would name something "Hey drude, we is my car?"

 

Enough of this. Lets have a look at the models.

I can tell you from spot on: I don't like the Harpy.
The stuff on the back looks like she has some serious fungicidal problem. I know, there might be some fluff-reason for this spiky crap, but I bet you could have solved that in another way.  Combined with the weapons, the torso gains somuch optical weight, it looks more like a bumblebee, with the same flight skills.  Seeing such a thing in RL would probably make you giggle, since its histerical flapping with the wings to keep it aloft would look to funny.
The syctals on the end of the wings also could have been left away for my taste.
I like the Spores though.

Looking at the details, something comes to mind: The face looks like a carnifex. The weapons aswell... the fungual desease could grow on a fex aswell... if you rip of the legs and stick wings to a fex you get this...
Especially the head looks like any other generic Tyranid an is the other side of innovative.

The mouthy things in the bottom left, where prbably the spores are pooped out of, look nisty though.

Conclusion 1:
Harpy? Booh! Would not but that model for another fex headed wingy thing. The Spores are cool, but would not convince me.



The DUDE ( I will call her Dude from now on) on the other hand is something comßpletly different.

This picture and the 360° show a streamlined, flat and aerodynamic beast, that I can imagine roaming the sky like the dragons in al those fantasy movies do. Designwise it is the complete opposite of the Harpy.
Where the Harpy has its spike-mushrooms sprouting, the Dude has low profile vents that suggest hollow-boned structures like birds have.
Where the Harpy has pistolero stiled weapons, the Dude has something very progressive. Arms that are hardly recognisable as such, closely stuck to the torso, holding sacks that grow back to the mainbody. One could ask why those sacks aren't "within" the chest... but that wouldn't create the picture of how the thing works.

Where the Harpy has lazy Spores hanging around, the Dude has something that looks like the niddy equivalent of a rocket. 

 

Where the Hrapy has a close to meaningless tail-tip, the Dude has something that looks capable of picking up Dreadnoughts, taking them up to the sky and letting them fall down again. Or slashing something to pieces, while passing it by.

The only let down, again, is the head. What is that tounge good for? Burning it with bioplasma? And the head is the same old boring nid-head, that could belong to a fex aswell.

Conclusion 2:,

The Harpy sucks the Dude rocks. It is like they didn't have the courage to go really innovative ways. But they made their first steps on that road.

And since I am such a fan of the Dude:

Though I can't help myself to see alot of similarity between then above and my Odonata I build... years ago...

 

 

 

Haruspex / Exocrine

I will  start with the Exocrine first, since it is easy:

The most surprising and spectacular thing about the Exocrine is the fact,t hat it is the first Tyranid model in plastic with a shut mouth. It is still smiling like a kid on its birthday, but it doesn't even sport that ridiclous tounge other models have. Aside from this "novelity"the exocrine looks like Biovore should have looked like when Roberto Cirillodid the "THE SKETCHES" back in 4th edition.

I still would prefere Mr. Pinks Version over this one.

I have saved the best for Last.

The Haruspex

What can I say? At first I thought: Nice... tentacles.

As you might have read ealier, the face is themost importan tpart of a nid for me.

That for, I have tried over the years to come up with as many viaration in that spot as possible, without destryoing the whole nid-image.

Some people might say, the haruspex looks like a frog. But I think that is due to the rather wierd angle the picture above was taken. Using the 360° Gw provides us with, you can see that the body shape is rather that of a bulldog than a frog. The low back and hind-legs make the creature to appear stable yet dangerous.

Ofcause the centerpiece is the head. Better, what is left of it. 6 eyes and the head plate suggest a place where te head should have been. But if you look past those tentacles (that remind me of pictures, only slaanesh worshippers know) you still kan make out the overstreched skin that appeares to be reduced to sinews, holding together the claws and enableing them to snap shut in a crushing, devouring, wet sound.

The middle and the front limbs work great for the purpose the creature was designed. The middle limbs suggest the sudden movements with which the creature would bolt onwards, the crushing clwas are a refeshing new variation of the old crabby ones.

The picture that really sold the model to me was the following:

Here you can almost draw thelies the designers had in mind onto the model. The drushing claws visually  suppport the great clwas that sprout from the mouth. Everything seems to draw the eyes of the observer into the center, were the gribbly tentacle things await.
If you know someone who has an old Armourcast Haruspex look at it from the same angle. You will notice, they almost look the same. Though the old Haruspex didn't have such a great maw.

The only question the model leaves unanswered is... were does al that food go? Such small hips.. :D

Conclusion:

As with the Harpy/Dude this box is full of controversity. The Exocrine surely is a good place to start for a gribbly conversion, if it is necessary gamewise. The Haruspex has everything a good Tyranidmodel should have: Visual supported endless terror with not much you recognise, which enlarges the terror.

Again, in favour of the better of both concepts:

General Conclusion

I would say, if I hadn't started nids yearts ago, I wouldn't for these models. The Haruspex is probably the most innovative model GW has done since the invention of the Carnifex in plastic.

The next step is to wait and see what the codex will provide us with.

All in all, I have to revise my first impression. The models have way more surprising cool stuff that the first glance would give away. On the other hand is the mindblowing OMFG affect still missing.

Still Tyranids are still the most innovative Army/race out there in Tabletop-Land, but while other Companies feel brave enought for real progressive and innovative concepts, GW seems to be rather conservative, which is really a shame.

So, what do you think? Did the stuff I said change your opinion on the new models?