Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Email Part #1: Hobby

From Andreas Dranidis:

Hello mate, I posted at your site but I have a request now. Could you please show a conversion of a Tervigon and a how-to use him in battles?
Thank you very much. I am planning on buying 2-3 carnifex kits and make them tervigons because I think they will be better than T-Fexs, what do u think?


Andreas:

My pleasure mate.  I'll see what I can do.  I'm not really hardcore with my conversions and my tactics are still evolving, but I'll share what I can.

Lets start with the Tervigon conversion.  Mine's not fancy, but I did do it with a couple things in mind:

1. It needs to fit the Tyranid look and feel.  This means not a lot of sculpting or buying other random toys to bash them together.  The Nid sprues are so amazing with all the extra bitz that I'm hoping I can scavenge some pieces to help maintain the right feel.


2.  The theme of my army is bugs.  The paint scheme is a combination of a jewelled beetle and a wasp.  However it ends up, I want it to fit the army feel.

Like I said, I tend to keep my conversions simple (for now) so here's what I ended up with:



The result:  Well, I'm happy with the bug like appearance.  It kinda looks like a beetle with crab claws and spidery legs.  I put the scything talons down like they are in the codex, used like legs.  It's not so much a conversion as a kit bash.  I used a full carnifex kit with a trygon headplate and some extra antenna.  They give more of a buggy feel and give them impression of broadcasting the synapse web.  I liked it enough to build my second the same way.  I orignally based them on foam core ovals, but have since ordered proper GW ovals.  Here's the second in a slightly more dynamic pose:

And the two together:

So it was quick easy, and effective.  I believe I reached my goal of keeping the Nid look, the feel of my army, and easily identifiable and different from my other units.  I know they're lacking the signature breeding pouches or egg sacs, but that for a later day.  Once I get more of the army painted, I'll go back and sculpt more on.  I'm thinking a long dragging egg sack like a termite queen.

8 comments:

  1. Ok thank you very much! Could you also use a tervigon based army in the far future? Also are these carnifex models with trygon heads? :S

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  2. It's a carnifex model with a carnifex head - the one with the large lower tusks. Then I attached a trygon's head armor plate to the top of the carnifex head.

    Tervigon tactics are coming. As for a tervigon based army, I'm pretty comfortable with two for now. Shaun from the American ETC team did pretty well with this one:

    Tervigon (HQ) - toxins, adrenals, catalyst
    2x hive guard
    2x hive guard
    2x hive guard
    Tervigon - toxins, adrenals, catalyst
    Tervigon - toxins, adrenals, catalyst
    Tervigon - toxins, adrenals, catalyst
    Trygon
    Trygon
    Mawloc

    This list works really well in objective games, but suffers in killpoint missions.

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  3. Forgot the troop termagants in the above list, so add
    10x termagants
    10x termagants
    10x termagants

    so you can take the tervigons as troops.

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  4. Thanks for ur fast response, but I didn't want a tervigon tactic, I have seen to many of them. I just wanted a normal army list with a tervigon or two attached... No need to worry about waiting my friend! :)

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  5. Here's a 2000pt list I'm using tonight with two tervigons. Batrep will be up tomorrow with results.

    Parasite of Mortrex
    Hive guard x2
    Hive guard x2
    Ymgarl genestealers x7
    Termagants x10 + devourers
    Termagants x10 + devourers
    Tervigon + toxins, adrenals, catalyst, stinger salvo
    Tervigon + toxins, adrenals, catalyst, stinger salvo
    Genestealers x15 + broodlord
    Genestealers x15 + broodlord
    Gargoyles x14
    Tyrannofex + rupture cannon, desiccator larvae, stinger salvo

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  6. okay nice, would like also to see some ymgarl genestealers and the parasite! :) When done with batrep can you please describe the battle as better as you can? Thank you and good luck!

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  7. yah, yah- really late comment...
    I'm sorry I just found this blog, so I'm checking everything out...
    These are lovely. Using the Trygon head plate is a very nice touch, it looks amazing, giving the model a really 'armored' look when seen from the front.
    The paint scheme, and the highlights on the metallics are making me jealous they're so nice.
    Man, you friggin' nailed it.

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