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The title says it all, except I doubt too many people will go that far! I spotted this listing on eBay the other day and it made me bust a gut laughing because of the hyperbole of the description vs. the photo of the much more modest model. The description posted by the seller says the following:

This is the best Tyranid conversion I have ever seen.
It's stance combined with a menacing look really gives this model attitude.
Truly one of a kind.

Now here's the accompanying photo and a link to the sale page. You be the judge if the model matches the hype:

No, they put the torso on upside down to get the upright stance. With normal construction the Carnifex is very hunched over.

reds8n wrote:We're generally not keen on mockery ( there are inevitable exceptions from time to time I guess) but reasonable debate is fair enough.

This really fits more in the discussions board, we prefer to keep this board for members works...

I wasn't sure what area to go with. I almost went with "off-topic".

You've probably noticed I'm not big on mockery myself based on my usual posts. I wasn't really mocking the conversion. The conversion work isn't bad, but the description touting it as the best conversion ever seemed really amusing given the simplicity of the modeling work. Thanks for indulging me this one time.

I actually saw a similar "conversion" in my local GW store last week. I asked the boy who owned the model about it and it turned out that he had assembled the torso on his Carnifex upside down by accident. The result of that was a similarly upright Carnifex to the one pictured above. It occurred to me that duplicating that modeling mishap on purpose might allow one to build an all plastic Hive Tyrant conversion, something I'd been comtemplating for a Swarmlord.