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I was thinking of making a considerably large swarmlord to fit with the whole supreme beefy leader thing.
I was thinking trygon body with big legs off a toy, four big swords etc and maybe a zoanthrope head with a large horn to represent its massive psychic capacity.

thing is, would it work? would the zoey head be too big( i have no zoanthropes to cut up to test im afraid) and also, any ideas/photos for the legs please which could be fitted?

The phrase "legs off a toy" worries me a lot. A Zoanthrope is an awfully expensive model to cut up also. I've seen Trygons into Swarmlords before though, with some people going so far as to keep the serpentine tail.

ok sorry let me rephrase that legs off a hivetyrant etc cut up green stuffed, lengthened and trygon head tops to give it thigh armour etc? just i thought a set of legs off the old godzilla models may bepossible with some hooves added



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like this ?

HHmmm.So you want to do a challaenge making a Swamlord? It would be the first thing someone would see on the battlefield. I just made both of my swarmlords out of hive tyrants with 4 paulson games bio swords each.

2 swarm lords....wow. really good idea. thanks, i might make a challenge one and then an easy one

You would dare cut up a Godzilla toy?? I may just weep. Still i like the idea of a huge Swarmlord. What about using plasicard for the boneswords and then some greenstuff for thickness. Beacuse i dont think the bone sword you get with the tyrant will be big enough will it?

I liked the size of the Swarmlord in Dawn of War 2: Retribution. It was about 50% larger than a traditional Hive Tyrant, and OH-SO mean.

A psychic-looking head can be made from the Trygon parts. Just some creative bit-bashing from the Mawloc bits; I saw someone use those very pieces to make a Doom of Malan'tai, in fact. I'll see if I can't find them.

There are good boneswords available from other sites, but they are often comically oversized, and look nothing like a Tyranid bio-weapon, so I'd consider an alternative. Making them can be a pain, however, unless you are an excellent sculptor. Perhaps a slightly modified, and enlarged set copied from the Hive Tyrant's boneswords would be in order? A little plastic card, green stuff, and a whole lotta love.

Thankyou for the advice. i may atempt a large swarmlord. i thing a small one is more "gamer friendly" but a towering monstrousity wielding hugs lumps of carbon seems to excite me... i was thinking two layers of thin plasticard carved then modeled onto sything talon arm outstreched with large toxin sacs at bottom wired with the small pipe off the bottom of the barbed strangler. as for head, i kinda want the brain matter and my green stuff isn't that good. any ideas?


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*huge* ahem damn spelling,

Made mine out of a Carnifex. Put the body on backwards and it stands up instead of hunches over. Cut the back off and flip it back around so the armor and chimneys are all going in the correct direction.

wow fantastic. good idea, i may be after bigger though XD

Well, if you Really want to put some work into it, you can use a technique of cutting it apart and putting plasticard in to space it out and make it bigger. Can require a lot of sculpting work to cover it up back up though.

that looks brilliant! hmmm......


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Aduro your hive tyrant and tyrannofex look brilliant, i wish i did that to my tyrannofex, im really proud of the gun on mine, just the fext is not big enough, also, how did you sculpt the set of chimneys on the tyrant?


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also, what cutting tools do you use for the plasticard fattening diet....?

Aduro wrote:Made mine out of a Carnifex. Put the body on backwards and it stands up instead of hunches over. Cut the back off and flip it back around so the armor and chimneys are all going in the correct direction.

Paulson Games Large Bio-swords for the win!

Razor Saw to cut the Carnifex up, Dremel to carve down the plasticard. Leaves you with a good bit of gap filling and covering with sculpting putty.

The Tyrant vents were plasticard carved into shape with a Dremel as well.

And indeed, Paulson's Bio-Swords are really good.

I like it overall. But there is one thing the swarlord has that that doesn't. A tail that splits into two. But overall nice