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JohnHwangDD wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:More than $220.52 USD?

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

It was a poor joke, as that's what's in my wallet


But yeah. $90 sounds about right, if I had to guess. Depends on if the thing is the size of a Baneblade or a Valkyrie(in which case, I'd be surprised if it was more than $60).

I think it'll be about the size of a Land Raider sitting on a Defiler, give or take.

Why not a Valkyrie sitting on a Sentinel?

That would just be silly.

so good sources say that GW isn't coming out with new tyranid models
haha good sources. I think the second wave is coming sooner than we think.
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Kanluwen wrote:Nahuh!

I find that keeping anything under $200 isn't helpful if you have to do anything that requires a cash down or if you get unlucky enough to find somewhere that won't take a credit card in the case of car repairs.

The 52 cents is in case the cell phone doesn't work.

I IZ PREPARED.

QFT...but your also a *cough* coke dealer *cough*

cant coke dealers be prepared too?!?

That picture is a conversion of a Trygon/Mawloc.

What's a Tremorbeast?

Why is that Trygon/Mawloc holding strange weapons?

Where did that picture come from?

Looks like someone has put Venomthrope lash whips in its mouth and added old-school warrior devourers




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Absolutionis wrote:Where did that picture come from?

The February White Dwarf with the Beastmen cover. It's from an article on Trygons in apocalypse.

Yeah, it's a special trygon that laid waste to the iron warriors and all their fortresses to overrun their homeworld of forgefane. He even ate the warsmith (chapter master). A great conversion with no rules. Speaking of which, pretty much all the tyranid apocalypse needs new rules now with all the changes.

Those claws would look pretty good on a Trygon Prime to distinguish it further from a normal Trygon

Ummm yeah good sources say no future waves this year..
Why are you showing pictures of a converted Trygon, wondering what that means...

A cheap alternative to buying the GW Carnifex and Trygon kits and trying to create a Tervigon is to go on e-bay and search for the old Armorcast Dactylis and Exocrine resin models. I have several of each and intend to use them for these creatures.

While I like the exocrine, im not a big fan of the others.. they look like Jim Henson muppets to me

Why is it some people have such a hard time identifying conversions? I've seen this exact thing happen before, someone sees an obviously converted model either on GW's site or in White Dwarf, and immediately assumes it's a brand new kit coming out, despite the fact that it looks almost exactly like a mawloc but with extra bits stuck on.

Do you think a heirodule fro forge world would make a good base for the Tyranno fex? Use the arms for something else and make the different biocannons out of bits?

GG

I am almost certain that the Tyrannofex was designed to bring something like the barbed hierodule (or old Exocrine) into the new Codex. The book is full of homages to old stuff (and FW stuff), ranging from strangle web gaunts to zoat-posed Hive guard. That's why I use my old Armorcast Malefactors as tervigons and Exocrines as Tyrannofexes.

Kroothawk, I do the same thing. I finally get to take my armorcast down from the shelf...

I also use my zoats as hive guard. Old school ftw!

Am I the only one who doesn't like having a bunch of bugs based off the 'fex? Seems like we're turning the 'fex into a Rhino chassis - a generic base that you slap different weapons onto. I'd rather see something a little more unique as we go from bug to bigger bug.

Kroothawk wrote:I am almost certain that the Tyrannofex was designed to bring something like the barbed hierodule (or old Exocrine) into the new Codex. The book is full of homages to old stuff (and FW stuff), ranging from strangle web gaunts to zoat-posed Hive guard. That's why I use my old Armorcast Malefactors as tervigons and Exocrines as Tyrannofexes.

I actually forgot about the "barbed" heirodule. I think that makes a peerfect tyrannofex with the strength 10 wepons anyway. You would have to come up with some conversion for the other weapons.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/bhier.htm

And the scythed heirodule would make a decent Tervigon with it's but sticking up in the air as if it's getting ready to give birth.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/shier.htm

GG

Nyhil wrote:Kroothawk, I do the same thing. I finally get to take my armorcast down from the shelf...

I also use my zoats as hive guard. Old school ftw!

I thought I was the only one who thought Hive Guard were the new Zoats!

Actually the Codex deliberately uses the expression "centaur-like pose" in the Hive Guard's flavour text.

Xenolich over at Warpshadow asked GW about the possibility of a new Tervigon kit. Here is the answer

GW wrote:Hello,
There are no plans, that we know of, to make a model for the Tervigon. You will need to convert one if you want to use it in your army.

Thanks!
John Spencer
Customer Service Specialist

What a poor decision, honestly. I've said it before, but they basically looked at the codex and said "Okay, we're gonna make two similar monsters with different roles that everyone who has ever played Tyranids, and everyone who will be starting Tyranids, will want to have...."

"Every last one, you say?"

"Yes. All of them."

"Welp, we'd better not make a kit for them; our money barrels are already full and we don't want to go back to the barrel store because the staff was surly. I think they muttered an insult to my wife."

"So give them the drop pod treatment then?"

"If you had to ask, you're fired."

This is a response from a customer service rep in the US, who deals with mispacks and issues all day. They are not privy to what is coming down the pipeline any more than the next person. GW has a serious lockdown on all info even among its own staff, so this is not a definite answer if a kit is coming in the future or not.

When SM,IG and Ork could have new kits release all over a year, other races renew their products slowly. Some don't have a second-wave release.

And there are always some units which were powerful in codex and popular in lists, but have no plastic kits, or even have no model at all.

Nob biker.(Finnally they got a FW release)
Fzorgle.
Pleague bearer. (Many player complained that WFB zombies looks better)
TWC.
Tervigon/Tyrannofex.
And Bloodraven now.

is there ment to be a kit coming out

Am I the only one who doesn't like having a bunch of bugs based off the 'fex? Seems like we're turning the 'fex into a Rhino chassis - a generic base that you slap different weapons onto.

Basing new creatures and models on existing designs not only allows GW to re-use existing sprues, which saves them money, but it allows model converters to convert those new creatures from existing kits without having to sculpt an entire creature from scratch, something that's beyond nearly all of even the most talented converters. I don't think most hobbyists mind the use of existing designs as the basis for new creations and gamers who dislike or are unable to do complex conversions most certainly don't mind it as they simply want an acceptable model to use in their games with a minimum of fuss. Re-use of design elements also gives all the models in an army a coherent look that is generally desirable. I for one was glad that the Tyrannofex shares a lot of elements with the Carnifex based on the artwork in the Codex. It took me most of my hobby time for a week to widen and sculpt new elements onto the model as it is. I don't think I would have tackled the project at all if I had needed to build the entire model from scratch.

That and add the fact we all have a bunch of pretty useless carnifi laying around now :(...