My Nids Hit the Showcase! New trygon, zoeys and Spore Pods!

Old School here with good news and bad news! The good news is that some of my new Nids are going in the display case at Evolution Games here in the lovely capital city of Lansing Michigan! The bad news is my camera sucks ... I am going to have to suck it up and build a lightbox. I am tired of all my nice highlight work on the red carapaces getting washed out of faded out by the fickle camera.
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Anyway, all that aside. I would like to introduce the work that has been keeping me from posting the last week. I have completed a Trygon/Mawloc, 2 Zoeys and 3 Spore Pods. Also (not pictured yet), I have 2 Tervigons that are almost complete (look for photos next week). Anyway, here they are. Feel free to ask any questions you might have about how they were done.

All of the photos of the Zoeys came out like garbage, but they really look nice ... it is just too bad they are no longer in my list. Anybody want to buy some really nicely painted Hive Fleet Kraken Zoanthropes?

Last but not least here are my first 3 spore pods. They are from the plasma hatcher toy line. They took about 3 hours to paint from start to finish (not counting drying time for washes). Honestly the toughest part was trimming the flash - the plastic was so hard that I went through two hobby blades just attempting to get the flash off of these two. There is still a little on there, but I figured since they would be fine. They certainly beat half of the plasma hatcher pod conversions I have seen around lately.

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The main idea behind my nids is that I want to showcase my love for painting large creatures - and nids really let you do it with their models - even zoeys are twice the height of a terminator and termigaunts aren't exactly small when you stand one up next to a space marine. I think when I am done with the tervigons, I will take a break, get to work on my 13th company and finally paint my Forge World zerks. Questions and comments are always welcome.