Battlefleet Gothic - Hivefleet Leviathan

HIVE FLEET STALWART!!!!!!!

Well here at the Emporium the Tyranids have invaded.  I've never been a big 'nids fan but when the new plastic models came out I thought it would be a great opportunity for conversion work.

It will also be a good opportunity to improve my skill in using green-stuff.

My first ship is a cruiser - torps up front and acid batteries on the flanks.  This model uses a Carnifex body primarily with a warrior torso for the "head" - though I don"t intend for it to be a head in the traditional sense.  On my future cruisers I may try magnetizing some of the weapons to allow more flexibility.

This far I've got my fleet lists drawn up so it's now time to get them built. After looking at available models I've decided on the following as a general guide for which base models to convert and for the general sizes of different ship classes in my fleets:

Hive ships:             Each unique; generally large monsters

Cruisers:                Carnifex

Kraken:                  Hive/Tyrant Guard

Vanguard Drones:  Tyranid Warriors

Escort Drones:       Hormagaunts/Gargoyles

These will be somewhat larger than the older Hivefleet models but, oh well, they've just eaten really well and consumed A LOT of biomass!

My intent is to try to use pieces consistently to represent different weapons/systems/organs on the ships (e.g. barbed stranglers for pyro-acid batteries, devourers for torpedo launchers, large adrenal glands for spore clouds, etc).

At present I have five separate 1000-1250pts fleets planned.  By the end of the summer or sometime in the fall I'd like to be able to do some sort of planetary invasion with orbital defenses, escaping civis, and random reinforcements along with whatever ships my local game store can muster - a real grinder.  So off we go!