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Reading the new 'dex I was struck by the point that all Tyranid models fall into three basic types; (1) Four legged with two fore limbs, (2) two legged with four fore limbs (3) snake body.

I thought it would be quite striking to make a whole army with snake bodies for everything. Some conversion would be needed to adapt some creatures like the Hive Tyrant and the Gaunts. If I did it, I would aim to make the tails for the Gaunts out of resin, and make the bigger creatures's out of putty.

Has anyone done this and are there any pictures?

not quite sure i've seen any army with that concept, but it's a great concept nonetheless.

LOL your avatar!

Have a look at my B'Bury thread for my Swarm Lord as a start. No reason not to use raveners, I've got 9, plus you get a spare lower body with each set which a warrior body will sit on nicely. Will try to get pictures tomorrow.

I agree it would be a cool look, especially snakey hormagaunts.

The only downside would be avoiding confusion with the 'official' snakey models, e.g. a trygon would be a great base for a snakey Hive Tyrant conversion, but obviously you want the resulting model to not look too much like a Trygon... Similarly you wouldn't want your snakey Warriors to be confused with Raveners.

But a little extra work during the conversions should solve that - give them different looking carapaces or heads or something. (hmm, or maybe use a different look for the traditional snakey models? - e.g. make spidery trygons and Raveners? A cool look, but of course hurts the idea of and all snakey army... ) Maybe extra-long snakey tails for trygons and Raveners, and everyone else gets 'normal' length snakey tails?

A snake body Hive Tyrant with 4 bone sword would be really cool because:

yeah I agree with the others ravenors for warriors and trygon for carni. I personally made a snake carni and tryrant prior to this codex useing some stuff i found at Toys are Us called skeleflex

Behemoth Crusher Carnifex


Dakka Tyrant


I have a few other angles in my gallery under my hive fleet section

That Dakkatyrant is BEAST

Thankyou Lord of battles. And your sig is pure awesomeness. I may have to steal it and use it on other sites

There are some great ideas from people in this thread.

omg!
that dakka tyrant is so... so... uh well as lord of battles said its a BEAST with all the meaning of the word.

LunaHound wrote:A snake body Hive Tyrant with 4 bone sword would be really cool because:

As someone planning a Warriors of Chaos army, I'd like to know where to find that miniature.... please!