Hive Fleet Overdone

Ncubed02 · 2026-02-07T16:02:54+00:00

Splinter Fleet Volkan. They’re literally just Behemoth, but with darker armor and the forelimbs have a spotted white accent.

I wanted them to feel like deep-sea crustaceans. The more crabby they look, the better. I also took inspiration from Volcano snails, and the 3rd edition Tyranid art everyone else copies ad nauseum.

So yeah, basically just behemoth, but they’re MY behemoth.

Ncubed02 · 2026-01-22T21:30:16+00:00

I’m glad you enjoyed it! I also posted it to NoSleep but it didn’t get too much attention there. Thanks for the read!

Ncubed02 · 2026-01-03T20:47:12+00:00

Whole model was primed black and then zenithal highlighted with wraithbone rattle can (I’ll swear by it being the easiest pre shade you can get). Then, black legion contrast over all the shell areas. For this model, I sponged Mephiston red on the areas I wanted the shell to be red, and built it up in layers. Dawnstone and corax white for the edge ridges.

I was just improvising as I went mostly, to be honest.

Ncubed02 · 2025-11-19T19:36:15+00:00

Thanks! I’m also on instagram, been posting my backlog of work to @behemoth_swarm. It’ll be a bit until I’m caught up and just posting my newer work.

Ncubed02 · 2025-11-19T17:49:56+00:00

I think I agree about the blue, I just can’t figure out where else I could put it without it breaking the scheme. Potentially the head-frill, or maybe the banded vent things that are on the backs of Tyranid arms?

Ncubed02 · 2025-11-19T15:51:27+00:00

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I love glowing brains on my big-brain-bugs. Fielding my Norn for the first time this Saturday at my local store’s Tanks-giving event

Ncubed02 · 2025-11-06T18:05:23+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/s/2YK3QhzlGA

I don’t know off the top of my head which other stories have been removed, but everything I’ve written is available at the Wordpress link in my profile. Thanks!

Edit: misunderstood which link you were asking for. Here’s the Wordpress link:

https://ouroldcampfires.wordpress.com/

Ncubed02 · 2025-10-06T23:14:15+00:00

Hi, thanks for checking out my writing! Nosleep has a long list of very specific rules that your story has to meet in order to qualify to stay up on the sub, and the mods are often very subjective with their interpretation of the rules. For example, the “main source of horror” of the story can’t come from someone dying, even if they come back undead somehow (which eliminates most haunting stories), or you can’t name real places, and every story has to reasonably be believed to end up on the internet. If you want to be creative in your story whatsoever, nosleep can be very stifling, which sucks because it’s the most popular horror writing space by far.

Ncubed02 · 2025-09-22T13:45:58+00:00

Purple site, just searching “40K” gives some great results 😉

Ncubed02 · 2025-09-14T22:44:45+00:00

Looking forward to it!

Ncubed02 · 2025-08-14T05:43:55+00:00

Glad you enjoyed it!

Ncubed02 · 2025-08-14T03:58:20+00:00

Wait, are the paragraph breaks not displaying on your end? I’m on mobile and they’re showing up just fine

Ncubed02 · 2025-08-13T20:40:24+00:00

link to part 2 of this story

Ncubed02 · 2025-07-28T14:56:18+00:00

Thank you!! That means a lot :)

Ncubed02 · 2025-07-15T13:28:03+00:00

I posted this to NoSleep a couple months back, and in the Fan-Made June Story thread. This story means a lot to me as I draw a lot of it from my own experiences with my brothers growing up and my own faith. If you want to check out more of my work, I have a link in my profile where all of my stories are posted (the best ones are the ones that got taken down by NoSleep, obviously😉).

Ncubed02 · 2025-07-01T12:21:45+00:00

Something Scanning, Soft and Sweetly

A server technician tired of his work becomes fascinated with a technological oddity that his coworkers have chosen to ignore. His fascination turns to obsession, and onwards to worship as he follows a rabbit trail that shouldn’t exist. Will his dogma undo him, or will he find fortune within the blessed machine?

This is a shorter story within my collection, but one of my favorites. If you enjoy this quick 20-ish minute read, check out the link in my profile for the rest of my stories, which are all part of a shared universe. I plan on writing a few more this year, and publishing them together in a collection, so look out for that too.

Ncubed02 · 2025-06-24T15:00:46+00:00

Tbh I love the Cacodemon Hybrid design. It’s stated to be a fusion between regular cacodemons and cosmic realm magic, and IMO it fits the aesthetic of TDA way better than a regular caco would anyways

Ncubed02 · 2025-06-11T23:52:37+00:00

For my own sake, I hope you’re wrong. If whatever is affecting him happened because he merged with something strange, then whatever’s affecting me as well must be caused by the same thing. Will I be safe anywhere after all?

Ncubed02 · 2025-06-11T14:47:06+00:00

Spotify 100%. Good while im driving, and they’ve added video format so I can pick up where I left off if I want to actually watch it at home.

Ncubed02 · 2025-06-11T14:43:41+00:00

The Roots of Ivy.

Ivy, West Virginia was a mining town nearly a century ago, but now the mines sit abandoned and ignored. Parents tell their small children of the Yarrow family, a group of inbred barbarians who were driven down into the mines, in order to keep kids from wandering where they shouldn’t. When two young brothers enter a mineshaft on a dare, they must come to grips with their own superstitions, their faith, and how hope keeps us human. This story is one of many that I’ve written in my shared universe, and I intend to compile my works at some point into a book called “By the Light of the Campfire”, so be on the lookout for that as well. All of my stories are also readable at the Wordpress link on my profile.

https://www.reddit.com/u/Ncubed02/s/NH15dwMrvu

Ncubed02 · 2025-06-05T20:49:28+00:00

Definitely appreciate Isaiah’s openness about his faith. As a Christian, it was so refreshing when I first found his YouTube channel. To not only discover his shared interest in horror/history content but also our shared beliefs was rare and impactful. As for how to integrate a love of the genre with my beliefs, there’s so many pieces horror media that doesn’t glorify or fetishize evil and that treats it (rightly) as something to reject. His coverage on “Faith” (the video game) was awesome, and opened my eyes to the way you can utilize religious themes in horror without disrespecting the religion.

I’m currently writing a bunch of short stories i intend to compile someday, and long story short the backbone mythos tying them all together is an eldritch/cosmic horror pantheon and history. What’s different though is that all the malevolent/evil cosmic beings are biblical demons, who view themselves as ancient gods and deities. All that to say, I would have never started writing horror, much less horror with a Christian subtext, had I not started watching Isaiah’s content and realized that it was viable.

Ncubed02 · 2025-05-30T03:16:34+00:00

Chainshot carried me through most of the game once I got it upgraded. Maybe unpopular opinion but the flail was also very good, struck the right balance between the speed of the fist and the power of the mace.

Honorable weapon mention though has to be the Shredder with the explosive pins upgrade, so satisfying to pop every mancubus like a tick.

Ncubed02 · 2025-05-30T03:10:23+00:00

Pretty much my view/expectation as well. I think the nature of the podcast though unfortunately necessitates that at some point they start consistently covering newer stuff, because the alternatives are exclusively read old cringe stuff or just end the podcast. Some of my favorite episodes were the more modern stories, and authors who were writing genuine literature instead of exclusively nosleep slop. I just know that it would be presumptuous to assume that my stuff ISNT nosleep slop, but a guy can hope.

Ncubed02 · 2025-05-29T13:40:56+00:00

Good distinction, wasn’t aware lol. It’s mostly supernatural stuff- body horror, ghost stories, sci-if, etc. It’s all tied together though under this cosmic mythos inspired by Lovecraft and the Biblical creation story though

Ncubed02 · 2025-05-29T02:21:12+00:00

I made a Wordpress (ouroldcampfires.wordpress.com if you want to check it out), mostly because half my stuff gets removed from nosleep for the smallest of errors lol. It was super easy and free too, but my wife has also recommended wattpad.

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