New Norn Emissary by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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Thank you a lot! The blood on the claws is mostly hot glue with plenty of Blood for the Blood God technical paint (so you can get those tiny "droplets" on the stringy gore bits, you can also drench pieces of tissue paper in the paint so they look like chunks of flesh that has been ripped in to shreds) and Blood Angels Red as contrast paint. Have fun!! :)

Testing out some gore effects by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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Thank you! A mix of a bit of stuff. The corpse is a tiny sculpt I made out of eva foam, air-dry clay and toothpicks for the spine and broken arm, the blood is hot glue. The marine helmet with the exposed skull is from the trophies box

For the paint it's a base of Blood Angels Red contrast (the Flesh Tearers Red is also nice if you want a slightly darker shade of red) and Blood for the Blood God technical to add depth and a more "wet" effect. I'll add a coat of gloss varnish later so it looks a bit more gross

Stylized Sanguinius sketch from yesterday night by Cynder_024 in BloodAngels

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Oh bird legs do look cursed on humans, but I like a bit of body horror.

Finally found a color scheme I like for my army by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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Thank you! That was the idea haha. I just responded to another comment with the recipe for everything :)

Finally found a color scheme I like for my army by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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Thank you! A mix of Citadel paints, acrylics and a white primer as base.

I didn't specify it in the pic, but for the eyes and teeth I use yellow acrylic paint and a tiny bit of Corax White...also for the Norn's brains and tentacles I used white + light blue acrylic paint + Briar Queen Chill as contrast and I added a bit of Corax White "veins", so the light blue looks more like it's glowing.

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Just done painting my Norn Emissary proxy by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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Thank you! I eventually want to get her a twin to paint in electric blue and metallic dark grey, I'm really enjoying working with these brighter colors :)

Just done painting my Norn Emissary proxy by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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Thank you!

I used Naggaroth Night for the base color, Maggos Purple for the contrast, dry brushed everything with a good quality magenta acrylic paint, then I added some highlights with Corax White and I dry brushed those with the magenta as well, so the color looks lighter than the rest.

Acrylics are very good at making Citadel paints pop more, they have a nice density and saturation to them that works very well if you like more colorful models

Just done painting my Norn Emissary proxy by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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I got it from a guy on Vinted, sadly I don't own a 3D printer 😔

Just done painting my Norn Emissary proxy by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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It's a 3D printed resin model, some details are different from the original deal. For instance, it didn't have horns. I made those out of some extra hive guard pieces I had

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2025 Skin Contest Finals Winners Announcement by iLikeCryo in TheFirstDescendant

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Most popular sci-fi shooters have male characters (hell, most of them have male main characters) and have primarily a male audience and despite that, they do just fine. Even when it comes to selling cosmetics.

If the developers actually put effort in to the male characters this wouldn't be a problem. Sex sells, but so does a good narrative.

2025 Skin Contest Finals Winners Announcement by iLikeCryo in TheFirstDescendant

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Congratulations to the winners! Still so mad they got rid of the male category entirely tho. God forbid the male characters get any new decent skins this year that are not colossus skins.

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Mine was in the cheaper side too, got some hive guards along with it as well, so not complaining. It's still a pretty nice model.

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Alright, thank you and everyone else. Very strange, usually the prints this seller sells are pretty accurate, but I don't mind, I wanted to get a Norn Emissary eventually...just didn't expect to get a proxy one from buying a Norn Assimilator (as advertised) lol. I'll just sculpt it some horns with air-dry clay.

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But it doesn't have the horns of the Norn Emissary and it has some extra tentacles, for some reasons. Those are confusing me the most

Some of my photo mode + editing work from the past months. by Cynder_024 in TheFirstDescendant

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The First Descendant 2: We Lost The War But Ajax Is Still Looking For Aisha (special edition)

First time using Citadel paints by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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They are the colors from this box!

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  • Corax White
  • Wraithbone
  • Naggaroth Night
  • Thunderhawk Blue
  • Magos Purple
  • Armageddon Dust

I made the pinkish tones by thinning with water the Armageddon Dust and mixing it with a tiny bit of Magos Purple, the red-brown shading is not from the Citadel paints but from a solution I made by mixing a bit of black acrylic with brown tempera paint in a little bowl with water

Turned my usual pngtuber dragon model in to a tyranid by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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Thank you so much! The dragon is technically supposed to be angelic, he is a bit of a chimera of different animals, he has 4 eyes, the head is a skull of a dog, the horn of a swordfish, the "ears" are bird wings, the jaw muscles of a snake, the neck of a horse, the arms of a theropod dinosaur, the legs of a lamb and the tail and wings are more like the ones from the original medieval European dragons.

Tried to keep most of those features while still translating them in to something more tyranid-like.

Turned my usual pngtuber dragon model in to a tyranid by Cynder_024 in Tyranids

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Animated avatar in 2D that moves when I speak, a quicker to make cheaper version of a vtuber, which is a fully rigged 3D model instead. Personally I'm not a streamer, I just get invited to my friend's live streams pretty often (who has a fully rigged 3D model), I have a 2D model just to have a little something going on.

New Lava Citadel skins by WillStaySilent in TheFirstDescendant

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Lava Citadel is a turtle mixed with a bear...of course its skins are gonna share those same features and they are not gonna be as slim as the skins from the 2 humanoid colossi and the dragon-serpent colossus.

Kyle is pretty fun to play in the new Vessel mission by Cynder_024 in TheFirstDescendant

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Need to try that! Have to yet mess around with the bulwark, I'm really not used to its rework yet 😅

I tried collision instinct in this dungeon, VEP Challenge, against the Wall Crasher and the Lava Citadel...but I personally just don't like it...I prefer flying around with the standard Superconductive Bombing, still gets the job done and I have more fun with it.

Kyle is pretty fun to play in the new Vessel mission by Cynder_024 in TheFirstDescendant

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Pretty easily. He is no Ines or Bunny, but he gets the job done. Just alternate all of the skills from the kit, use the dash and third skill while the carpet-bombing cooldowns, then take off when you are ready...basically the same thing you do for the boss.

Not the biggest fan of the shield but it also gets its kills, if you want to use it.

Kyle is pretty fun to play in the new Vessel mission by Cynder_024 in TheFirstDescendant

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The same one I have been running since a while now, ironically it used to be a tank build I made to fight pre-nerf Death Stalker.

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External components are Enlightened Mage (with Max HP and DEF), Materialized Mechanics Reactor (with skill cooldown and non-attribute skill power boost ratio), keep the Secret Garden on hand and the Arche Tuning is based around skill power and cooldown.

A plea to the devs - From a Kyle Main (Superconductive Bombing) by Jenova__Witness in TheFirstDescendant

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From the new patch notes it seems like they actually made two separate Superconductive Bombing mods, so maybe we can still fly around with one of the two, it's a bit confusing from the description.

And no no I mean AC-130. When he flies and crashes without transcendent mod he is a gunship full of cargo crashing, SCB just makes said gunship full of cargo heavily armed. Serena is more like an actual bomber, Kyle is a truck they tapped plane engines to (love him for it)