The picture below after step 8 when I had put the head on.
Armor Step 5: Now apply a thinned down Flesh in smaller triangles than Step 4.
Armor Step 6: Mix colors Flesh and Oyster White (50/50) and apply in smaller "Triangles" (or streaks where appropriate) that don't go up as far.
Step 7: Apply a thinned Oyster White in very small streaks than maybe only go 1/3 of the way up.
Step 8: Apply a very thin White just to the very edge of the armor.
Step 9 : Lastly, take some brown wash and darken all the little bullet holes and cracks that are all over it armor.

Wings and Joints

The wings and joints were painted with about 4 different shades of gray working my way up from a dark Charcoal Gray to a lighter Ghost Gray on the very edges and lighter highlights.

Skin, Final Steps

The first thing I did here was a little bit of touch up a the places where the green and the gray for the joints had gotten onto the skin. Next I did the final highlighting with a mix of Golden Yellow and Red Gore (about 70/30 mix, or to taste)

 

The Base

Now it was time to finish the base. The spore chimney that it is leaping off of was made out of scultpy. The other items on the base were made out of green stuff. The white stuff on the base is magic sculpt. Magic sculpt is an epoxy 2 part putty that is water soluble. What that lets me do is wet my finger and smooth out the large surface on the base quite easily, it is also quite cheap and drys ROCK hard.

This next step involved:
1: painting the tyranidy terrain on the base and the bio pool that will later have clear casting resin pored into it.
2. Gluing the Rippers onto the base.
3. Gluing on the sand with white glue and painting it. Which usually involves a few washes to get some shades of color into the sand, and the a few layers of dry brushing for highlighting.
4. Next I added the long grass and the pinkish flowers to the base.
5. Now at this point I put of few coats of Testor's Spray Dull Coat on the model to protect it.
6. Lastly I pored the resin onto the base to form the pool. I let the resin cure a little in the cup first so that it would not be too runny when I pored it onto the base since there would be no "walls" to keep it contained. To get the green swirlies in the resin I dipped a tooth pick in some paint and then swirled it in the resin while it was in the cup. You don't want to mix it in to much otherwise you would just end up with green water.

Conclusion:

I was quite happy with the way that this model turned out. As always there are things on it that I would have liked to improve. But I was finishing it the night before Games Day. Maybe next year I will learn that starting a project 2 weeks before is just a bad idea. In total I probably spent about 40 hours working on it. But the best part about this figure is being able to terrorize my opponents with it on the battlefield.

You can see the pictures of the completed model here.

I hope that this was informative and if you have any questions or comments feel free to ask.

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