Here is a tutorial on how I painted my Forge World Flying Hive Tyrant. (you can see the full article here without page breaks, about 2.7 megs.)

First off I had to clean the resin model with warm soapy water to get all the residue off of it that was left from when it was cast. Next up was the required cleaning and touching up of the miniature. Typically you will find a lot of flashing and a few small holes that are left over from the casting process that will need to be cleaned up and patched.

Next came the assembly of the figure. I had originally decided to do something a little more dynamic to the model. So I used my blow dryer to heat up the wings and tail so that I could bend and reposition them to something I liked a little better. Also the Venom cannon had to go... so I made two new scything talons that were appropriately sized for this model. The normal "large" scything talons that GW makes are too small for something this big. Some of the other additions to this include; poison sacks (on the arms), adrenal glands (for extra BS and I. Mounted on the back) and implant attack (the things coming out of its mouth). I also put some holes in the wings to make it look like he was not fresh out of the spawning vat. Of coarse every thing also gets pinned in place. This will insure that the model will be strong enough to play with later. Below you can see the pictures of it at this stage after it had been primed.

The "silver" model on the base was glued there to provide extra stability until I was finished paining and ready to mount the figure to the display base. Though the model will stand on its' own, I swear! What I should have done in retrospect was make the spore chimney that he is leaping off of out of lead to counter weight the model.

The head was mounted on a wood block and painted separately so that it would be out of the way.

And here is the side view

These are the rippers that will be accompanying him on the base. I cut the regular ripper head off and attached the head of the Epic 40k Trigon.

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