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Finally finished my tyranid prime. It's a fairly simple conversion, just using ravener parts stuck on a warriors lower body.
I'm not 100% happy with how the boneswords turned out. I don't think they look very 'niddy.








It's magnetised/pinned so I can swap out the arms and stuff should I feel like it. Although this has to be the best use of that feature.



What do you think?

That reversed pose is awsome. Great work.

Agree with you somewhay about the boneswords looking 'off'... not sure about the green color....

That truly is awesome, i commend you on your fine job sir.

The colors look pretty good, I actually like weapons to sometimes clash; makes them easier to see in an army that has a tendency to go majorly monochrome. My only other comment is that Tyranids actually wielding swords is a little odd, but there's nothing wrong with it, it's just something you don't often see.

Overall I like the look of the model.

Smart use of the Spinefists for the boneswords. although the blade itself kinda looks like a comical baseball bat at a profile. The colors are awesome.

Man that carapace is so beautifull please note those tears are from the shear awesome of that nid.... OMG IT HAS BASEBALL BATS!!

Thanks for the comments.

I can't really take any credit for the bonesword conversion. I originally tried making them out of some plasticard and greenstuff, but they looked awful.
After abandoning the idea for a few months I came across this easier conversion while browsing through some online auctions.

I guess my problem is with the way I painted them. They are power weapons and I wanted them to look like it, but I took too much inspiration from space marine powerswords and kind of forgot about the 'bone' part.
I'm growing more attached to them though, and will probably do future boneswords in a similar way.


I don't really get what you mean by tyranids wielding swords looking odd. I guess it might look unusual as we don't see too many boneswords, since the only current official model is the one that comes with the hive tyrant.


I hadn't noticed the baseball bat thing before, that's awesome.

It's great.

I made a Prime from a Warrior's body on a Ravener base, and made boneswords out of card and putty.

Nice conversion, i hadn't thought of combining raveners and warriors like that.

I don't mind the colour of the boneswords at all, but I'm not enthused by the shape, especially the blunt ends - I'd try maybe drilling lots of irregular holes in them to look more organic?

I love the swords!

Green has always been an "alien" related colour so I dont see the issue with it. You made the weapons stand out rather well. The only change I could make (and I wouldnt, as you dont need too) is to make the highlight go from top to bottom, rather then front to back. But thats just me.