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Showing posts with label Hive Tyrant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hive Tyrant. Show all posts

28 September 2014

Swarmlord Conversion Done

Nick speaking,

Here is my little Swarmlord conversion I did on my old Hive Tyrant. The idea mainly came about when a very good buddy of mine Aceface, gave me some very awesome looking Bone Sabres he had. You can find Acesfaces's awesome Tyranid based Channel here, and I would recommend you give him a sub. This fella is all magnetised up, so now all I need to do is paint him...





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25 September 2014

Swarmlord Money Saver Conversion

Nick speaking,

After converting my Hive Tyrant into a Flyrant, fully magnetised to give me both options, of course. I figured I might as well go all out and convert my old 3rd edition Tyrant, to have a Swarmlord option as well! The idea mainly came about when a very good buddy of mine Aceface, gave me some very awesome looking Bone Sabres he had. You can find Acesfaces's awesome Tyranid based Channel here, so please go and check Ace out. The Sabres are available from Blue Tabletop Painting, if your interested...


Just in case you haven't seen my Tyrant, here are a few pictures of him as he stands already. Like I said, he is an old mini, but I think he still looks cool, and if I can save myself some money (and room in my model case) then I am more than happy to do so. More to come when the conversion is complete...






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25 July 2013

Dual Flyrants Vs Ultra Marines

Nick speaking,

More dual Flyrant fun, and this time I had to slim down the list to 1200pts to play against my buddies Ultra Marine army...

HQ
1x Winged Hive Tyrant/Devourers/Adversary/Hive Commander/Swap for Biomancy (310)
1x Winged Hive Tyrant/2x Talons (230)

TROOPS
1x Tervigon/Catalyst/Adrenal glands/Toxin sacs (195)
1x Tervigon/Catalyst/Adrenal glands/Toxin sacs (195)
10 x Termagants (50)
10 x Termagants (50)

HEAVY
1x Mawloc (170)

Points 1200




 
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22 June 2013

2 Flyrants at 2k!

Nick speaking,

So lets talk two Flyrants at 2,000 points! After my buddies and I decided to move our games up to 2k, I got straight onto a second Flyrant conversion. One Flyrant has been a real blast to play and has been working really well for me, so I can imagine how two of them are going to do, double the fun! I figured I would go one choppy and one shooty, with the shooty one being the Warlord, as he won't be landing so often...


I think the best place to start my 2k list, is to build on my 1750pt 'Loc List', which gives me a nice 250 point Flyrant as an add on. Overall my 'Loc List' has performed really well, with the initial concept being built around having two Mawlocs in the list. In all honesty, the Mawlocs haven't really done much for me, the two S6 AP2 large blasts, sound really good, but I find most of the time I am scattering and hitting nothing, then they are just stuck there with no guns and pretty average assault capabilities. By the time it is my next turn, they are either dead or very badly wounded!

I tried regeneration on the Locs a few times, and whilst it is fun and does work sometimes, it's just a bit too random for the points, so I dropped that idea. Of course the Locs aren't all about killing, when your enemy has to deal with them, along with other stuff like Doom and Devilgants, it really does take a lot of focus away from the Spawning Tervigons! 


The question is, if I drop the two Locs, which would mean dropping the list name and concept, what do I take in their place? Two dakkafexes maybe? At least they can shoot even if their pod scatters, but then when they are down, they are down, no burrowing! No, I don't think so, regardless of how much the Locs kill, I still think they sit in the list well, after all, my enemy is going to have two Flyrants, two Mawlocs, Doom and a bunch of Devilgants in their face on turn two, well, as long as I don't roll any ones for the reserve rolls, and that is going to be tough to deal with...

Stinger Loc List v2

HQ
1x Winged Hive Tyrant/Devourers/Adversary/Hive Commander/Swap powers for Biomancy (310)
1x Winged Hive Tyrant/2x Talons/Implant/Miasma (260)

TROOPS
1x Tervigon/Catalyst/Adrenal glands/Toxin sacs (195)
1x Tervigon/Catalyst/Adrenal glands/Toxin sacs (195)
16 x Termagants/Devourers/Mycetic Spore/Death Spitter (210)
20 x Termagants (100)

ELITES
2x Hive Guard (100)
2x Hive Guard (100)
1x Doom of Malan'tai/Mycetic Spore/Death Spitter (140)

HEAVY
1x Mawloc (170)
1x Mawloc (170)

FORTIFICATION
1x Aegis Defence Line (50) 

Points 2000


Please let me know if you have any ideas for the list 
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16 June 2013

Flyrant (take two) Painted

Nick speaking,

Here is my second Winged Hive Tyrant conversion all painted up. The wings on this one, as well as the arms, are all magnetised, so that he is fully interchangeable...



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12 June 2013

Flyrant Conversion (take two)

Nick speaking,

With the move to 2k point games that my buddies and I are taking, I feel it is time I started to use two Flyrants in my army. I currently have two old OOP Tyrants, one with wings attached that I converted and a walking one, so I need to get another conversion going!


First I got myself some wings from eBay the same as my other Flyrant...


Then I started work on his back, beefing up the carapace to take the wings and embedding some magnets. I didn't want to cover the magnets totally to maintain their strength, so I decided to make four magnet toppers to hide the magnets out of adrenal glands...



Then I worked on the wing joints with green stuff (grey stuff, but it is the same) and embedded the magnets into them as well. I took that step a bit further and added in some magnets to the other side of the wings, so that I had somewhere to put the adrenal glans when they weren't needed...





Both of the Tyrants already have magnetised arms for interchangeable Talons and Devourers, so now all I have to do is paint it up...


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18 November 2012

Mawloc list

Nick speaking, 

Right, let’s get on with a list for my Mawlocs, this will be the first time I have used my magnetised Trygon models as Mawlocs, so I am pretty excited at trying them out now that they have had a bit of a boost in 6th Edition. I also want to use this new list to incorporate my recently painted Winged Hive Tyrant, which I also haven’t got around to playing with yet. So that will be my starting point. One Winged Hive Tyrant with twin linked Devourers, Old Adversary and a swap of Psychic powers on the Biomancy table.


For this version one of my ‘Loc List’ I am going to fill out the Elite slots with Hive Guard. I still don’t have the models yet though despite all the hype about them. I have only used them once, and that was with my Warriors as a proxy. I plan on converting my Warriors as Hive Guard anyway, so they can continue as a proxy for now. I am not sure if I will keep them for the list yet though, as I am a big fan of some of the other Elite choices like DoM, Y-Stealers and Death Leaper, but for now they are in.

I am going to stick to my faithful Tervigons as troop choices, just two in this list. They will be backed up with a large brood of Gants to start them off, and a brood of fifteen Devilgants, who will take a pod and deep strike in wherever they are needed, not used Devilgants before, so lots of new stuff in this list for me to try out and I am really liking the sound of the forty five, strength four shots they have.

Lastly will be two Mawlocs, they will start on the table and burrow turn one ready to do their stuff.  I am really looking forward to putting these beasts on the table for the first time and find out how good Terror of the Deep really is! Here is my final first list, battle report to follow soon...


Stinger Loc List v1

HQ
1 x Winged Hive Tyrant/ Devourers/Adversary/Swap powers for Biomancy (285)

TROOPS
1 x Tervigon/Catalyst/Adrenal glands/Toxin sacs (195)
1 x Tervigon/Catalyst/Adrenal glands/Toxin sacs (195)
15 x Termagants/Devourers/Mycetic Spore (190)
19 x Termagants (95)

ELITES
3x Hive Guard (150)
3x Hive Guard (150)
3x Hive Guard (150)

HEAVY
1 x Mawloc (170)
1 x Mawloc (170)

Points 1750
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22 September 2012

Hive Tyrant Painted!

Nick speaking,

Following on from my Winged Hive Tyrant, here is my foot Tyrant, once again with magnetised Scything Talons and Twin Linked Devourers...









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20 September 2012

Winged Hive Tyrant Painted!

Nick speaking,

Here is my painted Winged Hive Tyrant at long last! I have magnetised his arms with the choice of Scything Talons or Twin Linked Devourers. Hope you like it...







See my painted foot Tyrant in my next post...
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8 September 2012

Hive Tyrant Conversions ready for painting

Nick speaking,

Time to paint my 3rd Edition Hive Tyrants, I know I have had them for a long time now, but at long last 6th Edition has giving me some inspiration to paint them up, especially my Winged Hive Tyrant conversion. First though, I need to do a bit more work on them. I originally glued my much loved Scything talons on both models, but I think 6th Edition has changed things up enough now, that I need to take them off and switch them over for Twin Linked Devourers. Twelve, strength six, twin linked shots just sounds too good to turn down. Sadly there is no twin linked Devourer made by GW, so I will need to convert some up myself...



I have seen many different conversions for the Devourers, but I wanted to come up with something of my own, rather than copying someone else's work. I ended up making mine out of a Barbed Strangler cut off at the front, with two front sections of the standard Devourer joined to the front of that. I think the gun is about the right size for the larger Tyrant model and the the double twin linked front does the job nicely...




This time I decided to magnetise the Devourers and my original Scything Talons, just in case things change again in the future! So with all the work done, it's time to start painting...



More to come...
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14 February 2011

My Winged Hive Tyrant

Nick speaking,

As I sifted through my Tyranids to see what to paint next, it occurred to me that since the new Codex has come out my Winged Hive Tyrant hasn't seen daylight! In actual fact there isn't even a picture of it anywhere on my Blog, so here we go with a Hive Tyrant post...

First, a quick back story of my Tyranids. I bought my Nids from a buddy of mine very cheap, a huge box of mainly third edition Nids, mostly unassembled and cut of the sprue. In the box were all the bitz to make two Hive Tyrants...

First I made a foot Tyrant...


I got my Nids in a time when you could upgrade the model with flesh hooks, extended carapaces and enhanced senses. It was also in the hay day, when you could order any bitz you wanted direct from GW, so I got myself some wings and started to make a flying version...



I know I have had these things for sometime, but I have had so many other projects on the go, I am only now thinking about getting them painted! The question is, when I get this model all done, how am I going to use it?


I don't really have many winged things to make a full winged list, but could I get a winged Hive Tyrant into a Null deployment type list? Maybe deep strike it in along with my Carnifexes in Spores?


Or maybe I could use it as a Harpy? Is it big enough?


Anyone out there using Winged Hive Tyrants? What sort of lists are you using them in and how effective have they been?
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