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How would you convert a hive tyrant with armoured shell?

Could you beef it up with green stuff? Or you could add those little bits of armour you find in other nid sprues.

or, just say "This Tyrant has an Armoured Shell, it looks like a normal one, but it's been genetically transmoglified to be well 'ard!"

Yeah, just verbally should be fine for most occasions - there's nothing official to say whether a standard GW HT model does or doesn't have an armoured shell anyway - but for bonus points, some sort of greenstuff texture on the carapace would be nice, and fairly easy to do.

You could also carve down the back piece of the extra carnifex carapaces (carapaci?) and model that on there. Fill in the gaps with green stuff.