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Warboss Narznok has a good point. The more I look at those pictures, the more I'm convinced it would be a fairly simple matter to make a Trygon/Mawloc-style kit for them.

Oh I agree - the two are quite similar and it would essentially be a body and the same back legs, and then different pieces for each creature:

1. Tervigon - Front spines, bigger head, scything talon arms and second arms, and something to represent the next of T-Gaunts underneath it.
2. Tyrannofex - Heavy-set front legs, second set of arms curve forward into the gun, smaller head, and a single piece of 'armour' that goes where the spines launchers would go on the Tervigon kit.

Quite simple realy.

Railguns wrote:GW really does live in some sort of fantasy world.

*Creates units that Every Tyranid Player Ever will want to have
*Does not create kit for it
*?
*Profit?

Yeah, they did the same thing for Space Wolves with TWC. Now don't get me wrong, I like that they made these new, awesome units, and would hate for them to limit themselves purely to writing rules for units that actually have models, but it's still kind of funny.

Eldar Own wrote:Do they really expect us to buy 4 £30 kits to convert a swarmlord!!??

Yes. Like you said, it was a very shameless "wink wink, nudge nudge" moment.

I am looking foward to this, if it does come true, but I would probably just build my own Tervigon. *Looks evilly at Aduro's Tervigon*

It's called the Vendetta rule.

In 4th edition it was known as the drop pod rule.

No one can explain it.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:It's called the Vendetta rule.

In 4th edition it was known as the drop pod rule.

No one can explain it.

Was it the Wave Serpent Rule in 3rd Edition?

And the Land Raider rule in 2nd?

I wish they could come out with a Kit for it, I hate Converting.

It is what it is,unfortunately. With GW's resources and the time and expense to make the plastic molds,it just seems like they may have bigger things on their plates for the year. While BA's releases will be fairly easy to do,as most of them will center around bit sprues for existing kits,if Inquisition is truely after BA,well,there's two full fig lines that have to be redone in plastics. A Tervigon/Tyrannofex kit will be awesome when they get to it,but plastic GK's and SoB has got to be a higher priority. Hopefully,we get a kit for them in a 2nd wave release next year.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:It's called the Vendetta rule.

In 4th edition it was known as the drop pod rule.

No one can explain it.

In the old codex, I actually thought that what they called "command centers" in the colored pics were drop pods. So in other words, another squarish-looking thing like a rhino without tracks.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:It's called the Vendetta rule.

In 4th edition it was known as the drop pod rule.

No one can explain it.

Was it the Wave Serpent Rule in 3rd Edition?

And the Land Raider rule in 2nd?

Yep. And in Rogue Trader days we called it the Enslaver rule. Oh GW why do you tease us so?

I don't think they know.

Does that mean Chapterhouse has an "Bugasaur Queen" in the works?

Yes.

Or about 20$ in Greenstuff, carnifex model and some sculpting skill, so about $65?

And a helluva lot of spare time, patience not of this world and long fingernails to bite at in frustration. That kind of sums it up quite well.

Doesn't mean it won't be a Forge World kit.

For 200 bucks, no thankyou!

My nid army will be a Genestealer cult so trucks and tanks can sub for them.

Warboss Narznok wrote:I came back from my local game store to look around and play a game and an employee told me that GW is thinking of doing a Tervigon/TyrannoFex set. like the Trygon/Mawloc set where you have the option to make either two creatures. He said the bodies might be bigger than the Normal Carnifex body and Based off the art in the Codex. I think its true because look at the two pictures in the codex. They look similar in body.



I thought it was really awesome news. I want it to be true!!!!!

Forgeworld, more likely. Theyre the ones that do these sorts of varient model kits. GW rolls more in the mass production injected plastics range. Forgeworld does the special ops high speed vareation models.

Well if GW decides not to do it. I think we should bother them to make it!! It's an AWESOME idea. and these creatures deserve a kit. I say we make it come true!!

It might be the case that Forgeworld comes out with a conversion kit for the Carnifex kit.

Nurglitch wrote:It might be the case that Forgeworld comes out with a conversion kit for the Carnifex kit.

But the Tervigon/TyrannoFex are bigger than the normal Carmifex.

Nurglitch wrote:It might be the case that Forgeworld comes out with a conversion kit for the Carnifex kit.

I for one do not want to pay 55$ for a Forge World conversion kit and then 45$ for the carnifex.

Either that or it will be $95+ from Forgeworld for a new sculpt (look a the old resin Droppod - $90).

but the whole thing with IG Vendetta isn't exactly true as there is the $20 conversion kit from forgeworld

Yeah I don't think FW really counts here. They had a Wave Serpent kit for years, if you'll all recall.

I'd go so far as to say most of the 'normal' 40K players in the workd (Ages 8-15) don't even know about Forge World, or at least have any idea what they do exactly. And that's because, strange as it may sound, most people aren't like us, and don't obsess over these things like we do.

WHAT!? Other people aren't like us!? What's this ludcrous statement!?

But seriously, I do think that GW should make FW a more advertised company, they could deffinetly increase their sales.

And I think this is deffiently a project for GW, a tervigon/tyrannofex is more of a plastic model with multiple parts than a more pre-determined FW product.

Oshova

Chapterhouse wrote:While doing research for new kits, I have heard from numerous well-informed sources that GW does NOT plan on releasing any Tyranid new kits this year...

Take that for what its worth, but I think GW seriously thinks we will buy a carnifex and trygon kit for every tervigon we want.

Nick

I agree, I don't think we'll see any new Tyranid models for quite some time, if they were going to do a new plastic kit for a big beastie like this it'd have to be rolled out when the codex "launched". The big release for this release was/is the Tyrgon.

As others have said FW are very busy.. they have all manner of fantastic release heading our way, and, despite it making sense to me, you and pretty much every other poster and GW customer it does not appear to be in FW's brief or plans for them to fill in or make models to fill in holes in the existing army ranges.

Isn´t it so that with the Tervigon they want to sell more termagants ? Well that is what I think , bcoz I don´t think they would make the rules like they are if they didn´t !!! Putting it as a troop choice and all .

Well how many played a termagant army before ? Most of the Tyranid players have genestealers or hormagaunts , right ?

And yes , for the sake of the initial cause of this thread , I think the carnifex is a good substitute for a Tervigon with minor arrangement´s . But with that said I would rather see a model made by GW before release ...

Unskul ...

Nurglitch wrote:It might be the case that Forgeworld comes out with a conversion kit for the Carnifex kit.

I highly doubt it will be a conversion for an existing kit. The Carnifex doesn't bear much resemblance at all to the Tervigon/Tyrannofex,IMO,and judging by the 6 wounds in the profile and the scale shown in the artwork,they're a lot bigger than the Carnifex,as well. I'd say they're probably Land Raider sized,from a width standpoint,and obviously a little taller. They'll probably have to make a new base for the things. I'm afraid that people that spend the time and money to do conversions out of existing kits are going to be sorely dissappointed when the things are nowhere near as big as what they're suppossed to be when the kits for these finally drop.

Whatever1:

That's why I imagined a conversion kit. I figure they'll make a specific body and head to which the arms and legs of a Carnifex could be attached.

Unskul wrote:
Isn´t it so that with the Tervigon they want to sell more termagants ? Well that is what I think , bcoz I don´t think they would make the rules like they are if they didn´t !!! Putting it as a troop choice and all .

Well how many played a termagant army before ? Most of the Tyranid players have genestealers or hormagaunts , right ?

And yes , for the sake of the initial cause of this thread , I think the carnifex is a good substitute for a Tervigon with minor arrangement´s . But with that said I would rather see a model made by GW before release ...

Unskul ...

Nope, everyone that plays tyranids from before has a ton of termigants. Anyone buyin gTyranids will end up with a ton of termigants.

Why make a kit for either beast when they can con people into buying multiple Carnifex and Trygon kits to make their own and then take the units out of the book next time around because all of the WAAC kiddies were being bad about it?

Nurglitch wrote:Whatever1:

That's why I imagined a conversion kit. I figure they'll make a specific body and head to which the arms and legs of a Carnifex could be attached.

The 'fex's legs are nowhere even close to the Tervigon/Tyrannofex,however. You could use the Scything Talon arms for legs,I supposse,but everything else in the 'fex kit is wasted(or you could just build a 'fex with different options). If FW was going to do that,then they'd probably just sell the resin pieces with a couple of Tyranid monstrous creature arm sprues instead of a complete 'fex kit.

The back legs in both pictures are standard big Tyranid hooved dog-legs. The front pairs of legs of a Tervigon are thin-scything talons, while the front pair of legs of a Tyrannofex are more like the scything talons on a Trygon, thick and blunt. The front parts of either carapace are like the alternate carapace fronts on the Carnifex models.

Considering the options for Tervigons include Crushing Claws, and a number of other options, I figure just a Tervigon Body and a Tyrannofex Body work just fine.

Kanluwen wrote:More than $220.52 USD?

I'd guess $90 USD for the combo kit.

While the Codex pic suggests straightforward conversions from Trygon or Carnifex kits, other companies work on models that might be used as Tervigon and Tyrannofex, e.g. by Troll Forged and Chapterhouse.

BTW, until then I will use my old Armorcast Malefactor as Tervigon and Exocrine as Tyrannofex.