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Just noticed this GW's site...

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=cat1300051&aId=4900008a

stage by stage for the bug guy

You call that a gob! THIS is a gob!
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m850012a_2010-01-18_D_873x627.jpg

You know, "Trygob" is a good nick-name for the Mawloc.

I'm not quite sure why GW continue to fill their website with this junk.
The model comes with perfectly adequate instructions in the box.
This really isn't a very tricky kit at all.
Quit wasting our time and give us some real content!!!

Umm because they cater to the 10 year old kid who cant put a model together

Forget the hobbyist...

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:I'm not quite sure why GW continue to fill their website with this junk.

Becasue there aren't many Tyranid Articles.

just a little quote about the Mwloc

"On the Tabletop: The Mawloc's strength obviously lies in the fact that your enemy will not be prepared, and will not know where it will strike. The Terror from the Deep special rule means the Mawloc will Deep Strike directly beneath the enemy causing carnage in their midst."

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:I'm not quite sure why GW continue to fill their website with this junk.
The model comes with perfectly adequate instructions in the box.
This really isn't a very tricky kit at all.
Quit wasting our time and give us some real content!!!

This is quite true. Even a kid should be able to figure it out from the instructions.

Sigh....this just kind of reminds me how much I love their Tyranid line. May end up splurging a bit for this kit even though I don't play 40k anymore just 'cause it looks so damn nice.

Funny, I put together a Trygon Prime today, checked the website while the glue was drying and thought it was pretty ironic.

The only thing that strikes me as odd is that the Adrenal Gland plate is only featured on the regular Trygon, and specifically said to use the other plates for Mawloc/Prime. Could be a little misleading for people who use that guide rather than the (perfectly fine) instruction booklet.

I assembled and painted one of these for www.miniwargaming.com last week and entered it in the painting contest GW hosted... here's some pics:







Lots of pictures of the assembly here

Full painting article here

I'd like to see some simple kitbashing with the Carnifex kit.

Isn't kitbashing with the Carnifex kit the recommended way of making a Tervigon?

Nurglitch wrote:Isn't kitbashing with the Carnifex kit the recommended way of making a Tervigon?

Dunno, I've seen the kit in my local FLGS and it appears to fit with bits from the Carnifex kit. I'd like someone (GW?) to show me how. What's a Tervigon?

Cool, the Gee-Dub at the store was painting one of these today... and I didn't know what it was... now I know

George Spiggott:

Apparently a new HQ/Troop choice in the new codex, a sort of Termagant carrier. There's no official model for it yet.

Nurglitch wrote:Isn't kitbashing with the Carnifex kit the recommended way of making a Tervigon?

Yep:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FGTd8dMVE-M/S1N7M3PLLoI/AAAAAAAABMg/zGB7KUEC6cs/s1600-h/test1.jpg

I see alot of people saying this is the "reccomended" way, reccomended by who?

All I know is GW said the sightly changed the FW trygons torso etc to make it more in line with the carnifex.

puma713 wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:Isn't kitbashing with the Carnifex kit the recommended way of making a Tervigon?

Yep:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FGTd8dMVE-M/S1N7M3PLLoI/AAAAAAAABMg/zGB7KUEC6cs/s1600-h/test1.jpg

Very nice, so that's a Tervigon then. Where do the Gaunts go, inside? how do they get out? What parts did you use?

The Tervigon produces 3D6 Termaguants per turn (doubles and it can't produce any more) every turn, so basically its hatching them on the go. With no GW model to go from there is only the picture in the book which I believe shows it with lots of pointy legs. I believe that one uses the Carnifex body with lots of Scything Talons for legs.

In regards to the article, I lways assumed those stage by stages were put up for people who didn't have the kit yet to see basically how time consuming it would be to assemble it, and also to advertise how 'kit-bashable' they were.

Or in the case of the Valkyrie article, a set of instructions as opposed to the confusing isometric 3D cutaway diagram that came in the box.

GW instruction booklets have become a lot better of late (starting with the new Hellhound & Demolisher kits), so these aren't strictly necessary - but it's nice just the same.

Nurglitch wrote:You know, "Trygob" is a good nick-name for the Mawloc.

Do you know what 'maw' means?

I quite like the build articles, they show you a good look at kits you might otherwise not have much interest in and they do of course get people talking about the new model(s).

Back to this Tervigon query....
I can see a new release of a Tyranofex/Tervigon kit.
The artwork on pages 52/53 are suspiciously similar.
I can't really see how a carnifex or simple carnifex/trygon kitbash would ever be big enough to spawn up to 15 termagants per turn.
When will this superkit come out? Who knows..........Stares into crystal ball and sees Jervis swimming in a pool of money

There's a pic in one of the recent what's new posts on gw's website of a tervytopsygon made from a stegadona nd carnifex, looks pretty cool.

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:[...]
I can't really see how a carnifex or simple carnifex/trygon kitbash would ever be big enough to spawn up to 15 termagants per turn.
[...]

Never saw 10 Marines fitting in a Rhino.

Symbio Joe wrote:
Never saw 10 Marines fitting in a Rhino.

It's been done, and in an 'old school' Rhino, no less. I think the guy used the slightly undersized old Landspeeder crew, but they fit, albeit not comfortably. I don't see Space Marines complaining about having to ride for a thousand kilometers with another Battle-brother's hinder in their face, though.

It's been said that real APCs are generally very tight, too. Very restricted headroom, and mechanical space, gear storage, etc. make them a tight squeeze for the troops riding in them.

I'll admit were not sure how the Dream Pod 9 APCs (the Caiman and Badger fit 10 and 20 men, respectively, either...

Based on the (limited) artwork, the Tervigon is mostly Carnifex kit-based. It uses talons as front legs, but the rear legs looks pretty much identical to the rear Carnifex legs. The one place it may use Trygon parts is the head. If you look closely, you see mandibles on either side, something that isn't an option with Carnifex heads.

I tend to agree with Alex K. that we'll see a Tervigon/Terrorfex kit sooner or later.

gorgon wrote:Based on the (limited) artwork, the Tervigon is mostly Carnifex kit-based. It uses talons as front legs, but the rear legs looks pretty much identical to the rear Carnifex legs. The one place it may use Trygon parts is the head. If you look closely, you see mandibles on either side, something that isn't an option with Carnifex heads.

I tend to agree with Alex K. that we'll see a Tervigon/Terrorfex kit sooner or later.

This derails into offtopicness but wouldn't it make more sense from a business standpoint to let all the people model their Tyrannofexes and Tervigons from other kits and then, some day, release a proper kit for them, making people buy maybe twice as many models?

Greets
Schepp himself