Hive fleet Panoptes consumes all who enter the jungle!
Cut off from the primary hivemind by unseen psionic blockers, a cluster of genestealers found themselves marooned on a massive jungle world. To survive among the hostile megafauna, they adapted camouflage. To thrive they integrated their genes with the local sapient reptilian life forms. To conquer, they could not call their fleet, but instead grew their own from the biomass of the planet.
Now Hivefleet Panoptes has set its many eyes on the skies. They must escape this psi-blocking atmosphere and rejoin the greater swarm.
This display terrain was a mess to build. The foliage is now all over my apartment, and the little rippers were a real challenge for my printer. It was still fun, but I probably wouldn’t use these same techniques and materials in future projects.
Basing these bugs was also really cathartic. The rough jungle terrain gave me a lot of opportunities to get creative with the basing bits and diorama dirt. The resin swamp goo, saliva, and brain slime were frustrating when I just had a pen UV light, but getting a wall-plug light made it almost trivial and let me experiment more with mix-ins.
Overall I’m really happy with how this display turned out, and if I ever learn how to actually play this game I’ll probably enter this in Armies on Parade.
