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**thesuperiorninja**

So I'm building a Tyranids army and am painting a Hive Tyrant. Somewhere in the process of his being built and painted I lost his head, so here's my question. Is there any remotely possible fluff reason why a Hive Tyrant could function without it's head? If not I'll just get another but any amount of money I can save would be awesome

**Lukus83**

buy a fex...not sure if it would fit but the sprue comes with like 6 different heads.

And yes you could use the fluff to say it has regenerate (just its head??)...although the model itself cant have that biomorph.

**Squig_herder**

the power catalyst, [if it has a bone sword]??

**KingCracker**

well until you get the head figured out, you could say that due to its super psychic powers its head is just invisible........ OR glue a gijoe head on there and start rocking man!

**thesuperiorninja**

Lukus83 wrote:buy a fex...not sure if it would fit but the sprue comes with like 6 different heads.

And yes you could use the fluff to say it has regenerate (just its head??)...although the model itself cant have that biomorph.

That's probably what I'm gonna do. I'm building a 2500pt Nidzilla list and I like the Tyrant heads better than the fex heads. It just so happens I have a friend who likes the fex heads better than the Tyrant heads. So I'm probably gonna by a fex, he's gonna buy a Tyrant and we'll swap heads.

Squig_herder wrote:the power catalyst, [if it has a bone sword]??

Unfortunately no bone sword on this one, Venom Cannon and Scything Talons

KingCracker wrote:well until you get the head figured out, you could say that due to its super psychic powers its head is just invisible........ OR glue a gijoe head on there and start rocking man!

Just one question...what's a gijoe???

**Ghost in the Darkness**

You seriously don't know what a G.I. Joe is they were real american heros and not to mention theres a movie coming out soon too

**blindidiotgod**

thesuperiorninja wrote:So I'm building a Tyranids army and am painting a Hive Tyrant. Somewhere in the process of his being built and painted I lost his head, so here's my question. Is there any remotely possible fluff reason why a Hive Tyrant could function without it's head? If not I'll just get another but any amount of money I can save would be awesome

Tyranids come with multiple sets of all their organs. This one just so happens to exist without the head, it's cognitive synapse exists in say, it's elbow. Just make sure to model the damage.

**KingCracker**

yeeeeeeeeeeea..... you dont know what a gi joe is? holy friggin crap someone take his American flag off

**Gen. Lee Losing**

I would have to see your bits box before I gave advice, but if you have any of the old 3rd edition scything talons, you could use the part right before the blade and sculpt feeder tendrils. It looks cool.

**AzurePhoenix**

thesuperiorninja wrote:Just one question...what's a gijoe???

Holy crap do I feel old...

**99MDeery**

god im English and i used to watch G I Joe..am i too old as well?

**InyokaMadoda**

By the power of bitsbox..... I give you....fex heads

**Clthomps**

http://cgi.ebay.com/WARHAMMER-40K-BITS-TYRANID-CARNIFEX-5x-HEAD_W0QQitemZ370114858550QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item370114858550&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=72:1205|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

Check this guys other auctions as well.

**thesuperiorninja**

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:You seriously don't know what a G.I. Joe is they were real american heros and not to mention theres a movie coming out soon too

KingCracker wrote:yeeeeeeeeeeea..... you dont know what a gi joe is? holy friggin crap someone take his American flag off

AzurePhoenix wrote:
thesuperiorninja wrote:Just one question...what's a gijoe???

Holy crap do I feel old...

99MDeery wrote:god im English and i used to watch G I Joe..am i too old as well?

Okay I DO know what G.I. Joe is. I had several of the tanks from the show

anyways in my defence he typed gijoe so i was reading it as one word now had he seperated the "gi" from the "joe" I would have understood what he was talking about.

**thesuperiorninja**

UPDATE: So I decided to go with a combination of blindidiotgod's suggestion and the various fex suggestions. I took a standard fex head and cut of the front part leaving the lower jaw intact. I also cut out the tongue and scarred up the edge where I cut the head so it looks kinda like it was blown off awhile ago and has "seen" some battles since. Sorry no pictures on account of my camera being dead and there not being a single AAA battery in the house

**thesuperiorninja**

well good news. I found the Tyrant head. I suppose that kinda throws everything in this thread out the window