Final shots of the "Tyranid hunter" Dire Avenger.

As I said, this was for a challenge to paint a member of one army in a scheme of another army.
Choosing Tyranids and then Hive Fleet Leviathan, I just had to choose how to apply it to the dire avenger.

Select armour piece were assigned as the purple, the majority of the armour was to be white and then spot colour small parts in pink. And, of course, the weapon in red.

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More angles of the previously armless Dire Avenger #2.

Upon painting, I blended what I would use for an Eldar fleshtone into the Tyranid arm's red at the shoulder to show a more genetic basis for the grafting, rather than just being stitched on.
Somehow makes it feel more permanent.

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A few more views of the "Tyranid Hunter" that is Dire Avenger #3

The spear arm is an older eldar arm (than the majority of the mini') and a (possible) Fantasy Orc halberd and hand.
I just combined the two at the wrist.

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A couple more photos of Dire Avenger #2

Some putty was used to fill around the shoulder joint as the Tyranid ball is smaller than an Eldar shoulder ball.

Also a putty "hose" was used at the front to replace the second plugged in arm that a Tyranid uses.

A blend from flesh to red was chosen to sell the grafting of the Tyranid to the Eldar body.

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