Category Archives: Tyranids

Tervigon Egg Sacs

I received a question a few days back on how I did the egg sac look on the back of my Tervigon. The question came at a perfect time because I had some spare green stuff from a small project I’ve been working on. So I decided to answer his question tutorial style!

Here ya go Emilio!

When I started to build my Tervigon a few months back I tried to follow the hobbyist genius that is Hydra of Warpshadow. I just could not get the glue/tissue method that he had developed to work right so I changed direction. The base form of the beast was perfect and since I had already hollowed out his (her?) back for the egg pods I needed my own process.

My design mirrors the interesting albeit gross reproduction habits of the Surinam Toad (read and educate yo self foo!). Eggs suspended in the spongy tissue in the Tyranid brood beast’s back was so perfectly alien I had to do it. And it was easy as hell to do!

Here’s what you’ll need:

Needed Mats

  • Tub-o-Egg Sacs
  • Green Stuff
  • Sculpting tool



You have a choice of materials you can use for your egg sacs. Here is an example of 3 mediums I keep for potential projects:

Tub-o-Egg Sacs
Tub-o-Egg Sacs

Choice of Eggs
Wooden - Sculpy - Putty


Wooden Spheres – Bought from Michael’s. Perfect size but they are all the same dimension. Varying sizes will fit this project better.

Handmade from Sculpy – These are what I went with. You can crank out a score of these little bastards in about 10 min and they are cheap as hell too! Just roll them up, bake them for a few minutes and you’ll be ready. Vary the sizes so you have options.

Green/Grey Stuff – Have you ever had some spare green stuff leftover from a sculpting project that you had no use for? Roll it into a ball and keep it! You’d be surprised how useful that sphere will be a few weeks/months down the road.

Once you have your sacs in hand (gigity) the sculpting work is damn simple.

Green Stuff
Green Stuff

Roll up some greenstuff.

Part - I
Push egg...
Part - II
...into putty

Sculpting Tool
Don't hurt yourself...

Push your sac into the putty (gigity) and grab your sculpting tool.

Pock Marks
Pock Marks
More Pocks
Moar Pocks

That's it!
That's it!

Prick the putty making a pock-like surface. You can push the putty around into new places to make the sac appear to be pushing out of the tissue.

A Slice of Advise

It would be rather expensive to fill the whole back of a Tervigon with just green stuff. I suggest you use a cheaper medium to fill most of the space and then finish with green stuff egg process. I filled most of the back of my beast with Apoxy Sculpt and added the sacs after it cured.

And that’s it! Hope you found this usefull!

Tyranid Tervigon

Finally got around to uploading these images. I decided to go with a modified variant of the design from Hydra from Warpshadow.com. I could not get the egg sack method he used so I went with my own.

To be honest this is one of the best models I have painted. I don’t like to paint large minis on the most part but this one came together so well I had to.

Front View
Front View
Left Side
Left Side
Right Front
Right Front
Head Detail
Head Detail
Egg Sacks
Egg Sacks
Egg Sacks
Egg Sacks

Mycetic Spore

As of late, GW has had a trend of making rules for models they didn’t intend on releasing for a while. Few armies suffer from this problem more then the Tyranid army book that was released in January.

Since GW had no real plans on providing us with a pod in which we could fall from the heavens and land closer to our food sources, I decided to make my own. I mean who wants to walk that far to eat?

I sculpted it from a wooden goose egg I found at Michaels and some ProCreate epoxy I had kicking around for years. The results were… surprising. I had never sculpted anything in my life and this came out good enough for me to make a mold of it and cast it in resin. The base is made from a Pegasus Hobbies crater.

Original Sculpt
Original Sculpt
Back View
Back View
Front View
Front View
Size Comparison
Size Comparison