Progress - Tyranids

So today I did some more tyranid work and I'm happy with the results. I don't know the name of the hive I'm painting, but it is an official hive and I think this will be a good army to help people learn to play as a strong offensive player.

Here is a picture of the detailing I'm attempting




I also figured I'd try a new trick I saw at the mall, hot wire cutting.
Now, I do not have a hot wire cutter, so I just picked a size 6 xacto blade and put it in a candle flame. Here are the results



So just to quickly go over what I did to get this clean cut and nice connection.

1. Cut a magnet into the devourer gun arm.
2. Cut a hole in the warrior torso that matched the angle and pitch of the arm magnet.
3. Put both arms in place, test fit position.
4. Applied plastic cement and super glue to the left warrior arm on both ends, sticking it in place to the gun arm (right arm).
   
5. I let it dry for 5 minutes.
6. Lit a candle.
7. Heated my blade for 10 seconds.
8. Place it in the spot shown above and pressed gently
9. Goto 7 until blade goes through arm.

At that point, since I had position the magnet very very carefully, I was able to place the arm back in place and have a near flawless reattachment, rather than having to magnetize two different arms. I like this result a lot and will do this from now on.