This little project was a commission for Yakface, from DakkaDakka. You can find the original Dakka Forum WIP thread here.
Yakface wanted a winged Hive Tyrant with a little battlefield presence. What we settled on is a combination of Hive Tyrant and Carnifex parts, which will be modified as we go to blend them together and to keep it looking sufficiently ‘Tyrant’ rather than blocky and ‘fexey.
I’ll be using Tyrant legs, with a Carnifex torso and head. We decided the larger torso fit in nicely with the increased chest muscle and lung capacity needed by a flying creature, while the proportionately slimmer legs represent the fact that he doesn’t need to run too far.
The first job is to modify the Carnifex head to look more Tyrant-ey. I started this off by shaving off all but the first of the head-plates, and adding new, slightly smaller plates with green stuff, leaving the large, bulbous cranium area at the rear.
The plates need a little smoothing down, and then I’ll add the row of spikes (including the Tyrant’s signature massive nose spike) to the plates, and some exposed veins on the cranium.
Weapon-wise, I’ll be magnetising a couple of sets of arms: two sets of Scytals, and two sets of twin-linked Devourers.
Since the wings take up an arm socket, the remaining arms need to have two weapons each, which will mean a slight rebuild.
I started with the Scytals, by slicing off the hand at the wrist and turning it sideways. I then added two Scytals as fingers.
These are just pinned in place at this point. Assuming Yakface doesn’t hate them on sight, the next step will be to glue them and then fill the gaps with green stuff.
Coming up: The head gets spikey with it, devourers get linked, and Doctor House initially thinks it’s one thing before deciding it’s actually something else, and then discovers that it was the first thing all along, but they missed it because they forgot to stand on one leg while doing the MRI…