Floating Tyranid Maleceptor - Warhammer 40k

[@evilgenius919]

I love this style, it gives the model a more eldritch horror feeling that elevates the nids over "hive mind space bug" it makes them feel much more alien

[@WhatThe40k]

Just the vibe I was hoping for!

[@falsehero2001]

Hive mind space bugs aren’t alien enough for you?

[@MetaphysicalWafflecane]

Naturaly, this is 40k.

[@KillerOrca]

I like this sort of style honestly. Your thought process on the model as you build it really helps tie it together. Lot of times people just say "this is cool and so I did it this way", but I like it when someone building a model gives more of a logical explanation.

[@WhatThe40k]

Happy to hear the extra context is appreciated 😊

[@GrayderFox]

I think the bodypiece does give it a certain level of bulk and weight, but those tentacles do sell the idea it's drifting eerily along. It cuts a very unique figure. Would love to see what it looks like painted up! Gengar is A+ naming. :D

[@davidbarko7004]

One of the best tyranid conversions I’ve ever seen. Jealous!

[@lawrencedoodleheimer4735]

This is a brilliant conversion. It looks like a nightmare jellyfish. Just looking at it I can’t help but imagine a horror movie scene of some people trying to hide from it as it silently ghosts toward them knowing where they are the whole time. Very cool and creative.

[@pricejac12]

i love this and will most certainly give it a go when my new tyranid army takes form

[@cmkmusicislife1571]

That’s very well done!

[@WhatThe40k]

Thank you

[@wolfnerdfv6670]

This conversion is sooo underrated. Keep it up lad

[@davequinn2902]

Ooooh I might need to try this for my hive fleet. This looks super spooky!

[@RotaFury]

I am not a huge nid player but i do love doing kitbashing now and again and totally got some inspiration from this. I may give this a shot my self.

[@witheringgaze1106]

I really agree with you about the skewed evolutionary tree. GW had a good idea trying to make multi use kits but they abandoned some core design concepts to achieve it...

[@pugums3433]

I wanna do this with my Toxicrenes, the idea being the poisonous gas they produce causing them to float. Thanks for the vid, ill be sure to experiment with this!

[@cody1805]

This is so damn cool Your artistic inclinations for mixing and matching sneakers creating are incredible. I’m going to attempt this with my malceptor

[@jarredaekins]

epic conversion. way better than the standard malaceptor

[@Sandmann1193]

Oh man. This got recommended to me today after I built the model yesterday and attached the toxicrene tentacles to my trygonbase :d In other words: it gets the Maleceptor (which I as big bug lover think is cool already) to a whole new level of sinister coolness

[@requinorex3250]

Well the toxicrine/maleceptor are carnifex evolution like the exocrine/haruspex. There are specific carnifex for specific needs (harvesting, artillerie, psychic, and toxic) so yeah, they look like carnifex. But I really like your view on the subject and your conversion, one of the best I've seen.

[@WhatThe40k]

Thank you🍻

[@glennderocher2862]

amazing idea! I think ill build mine in a similar way.

[@motherreaper7287]

Daaaaaamn I love this!

[@Koby19841]

Not gonna lie. This looks heaps better than the box level maleceptor. Might have to give this a try if I even manage to find a maleceptor box.

[@josephm9745]

Came out beautifully wish I had one

[@Swarbie8D]

God I love this; I will be stealing the idea for my own Maleceptor :p

[@DoctorGrim456]

Absolutely love it, feels like the wraith from evolve

[@TheDimonTube]

Amazing kitbash! Might attempt something like that

[@norad_clips]

Yo that’s a real nice aesthetic!

[@matthewbadger8685]

I like that it seems to be floating, but that the tentacles drag it forward at high speed to fight at close range if necessary. It seems like it could easily slither across the battlefield and through gaps in buildings, like it is a more capable organism than the slower, artillery-like zoanthrope.

[@IroncladQuzar]

You can't trick me, that's a Reaver from Gears of War!

[@TheWarpForge]

Looks great!!

[@ringheader]

This could be used as a Neurotyrant now 😮

[@47thSteelLegion]

I’m stealing this for hive fleet ouroboros. The fleet of flying spam

[@WhatThe40k]

Yesssss, spread this mutation through the Hive Mind 😂

[@harrybrass734]

Looks great! The parts list would be the following right? malecaptor kit Tyrannocyte (built as a sporocyst) Zoanthropes (buildlt as zoanthropes) Anything I'm missing from this list? Also i think that the sporocyst can no longer make spore mines, does that mean that this conversation would maken the sporocyst not able to work fully in 10th?

[@WhatThe40k]

IIRC the sporocyst can still make spores but I'm tournament matched play you can only make spore mines once across your army and biovores do it better.

[@rhystaylor355]

This is so cool! Amazing work!

[@Velkanize]

If you look at it from the back the spore tentacles look like some sort of demon squid "face"

[@OverboardDM]

great job

[@jdfras9041]

Great job! look more brain bug like. Love it.

[@owls3634]

I wish i could buy this.

[@HighlandPhoenix]

This was a great idea, definitely agree with the design philosophy...! What is your 2000 point list of choice...?

[@samfish2550]

Oooh, I like this. Probably won't use the conversation since if/when I start nids I plan on going for hive fleet jormungunder and floating doesn't connect much with their vibe. That's just me tho.

[@WhatThe40k]

I can appreciate that. Jormundander feels better when serpentine imo.

[@jimothytohns]

Love it!

[@elmathia8588]

Realy nice..good Job

[@sekliley7587]

This conversion reminds me of the Kraken from Evolve

[@hobobeard]

Looking at it head-on it looks a bit vulnerable. Surely if it were intended to float toward enemies to engage them it'd have front facing carapace to protect the exposed brain.

[@WhatThe40k]

I feel ya, the zoanthrope is better in that regard. I suppose GW designed it this way due because of the psychic barriers these kinds of bioforms possess. Though to me that still feels like a cop out 😂

[@veekleek7535]

Nice conversion, I agree that the GW model doesn't feel like a natural evolution of a zoanthrope at all.

[@flannelmann]

Dragonspears!!

[@ModernSynthesist]

Tyranids definitely should be Pokemon.

[@DinoCopRulezTheWORLD]

Awesome :)

[@WhatThe40k]

Thanks 😁

[@coalitionofrob436]

Your conversions are inspired, ever considered some Blood Angel ones!?

[@WhatThe40k]

Thanks! As for Blood Angels... Not quite. I do like them. But usually I'm just doing hobby projects for factions I collect. Unfortunately,I don't have any plans for Blood Angels in the near future, that is unless things change. 😅

[@saxon2846]

Is Gengar your custom hive fleet? The name sounds familiar.

[@WhatThe40k]

Yes, that's what I'm calling it.its named after the pokemon Gengar, because of colour and psychic themes I have chosen. Though Perhaps someone else named their Hivefleet after it too 🤷‍♂️

[@saxon2846]

@@WhatThe40k no, it was the Pokémon, nevermind. Although the colors and name made me think it was Neon Genesis Evangelion lol. Awesome work mate.

[@kaafi3200]

Aren't you Mortimer from "cytadela" Channel about wh? You have very similar style of talking but slightly different voice though. But the last film on that Channel was few years ago, so maybe it changed

[@WhatThe40k]

No, not me this channel of mine is my first.

[@Blancinnoir]

Would this be in anyway tournament/ that guy proof?

[@WhatThe40k]

I'd say so, it uses the same base size and many of the same parts. Likely it may be easier to draw LoS to it since IIRC this conversion sits taller. So really, the advantage it provides if any will be to your opponent.

[@cody1805]

Do you do commission work? I butchered my malceptor kit trying to do this. I’ll pay you whatever you want to build a malceptor like this and you don’t even have to paint it.

[@WellAllsLost]

Where do we see these get painted?

[@WhatThe40k]

I actually have a video outlining the method and scheme for Hive Fleeet Gengar!

[@Astralwolf23]

looks amazing, please work at GW

[@thra-x1855]

i was similarly perplexed by the sudden design deviation of the kit but then the nid design philosophy seems to have been abandoned since that time - just look at that parasite abortion.

[@slingrtube]

chesticle, testicle, wallet, and watch

[@kylarcast143]

This types of transformed figures can't be played in a competitive game, no?

[@WhatThe40k]

I believe that would be determined event by event, since the set their rules/standards. This conversion here uses the same base the model comes onto and isn't too different from the original model. Though TBH taking the hobby out of warhammer for the sake of competitive play, is for me, killing the spirit of our hobby.

[@Saurophaganax284]

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[@karamelapple8007]

Don't tease me like this dude! It just sold out again 😪

[@Saurophaganax284]

also the first view