WIP: Tyranid Biovore conversion

An early look at a conversion I'm working on for my Hive Fleet, Unending Maw.


I've wanted to field a brood of biovores for a while now, but the model (beyond being stupid looking) is insanely overpriced. At $50 a piece, fielding a brood of three would cost prohibitive. Thankfully, while trolling the boards over at the tyranid hive (howdy, boys!), I came across a great thread where users share their conversions. Among them was the brilliant idea to use the new hive guard / tyrant guard kit to create "counts as" for the biovore.

Having purchased and created a set of two tyrant guard, I used the leftover model to create the first of my new brood. I've attached the bio-weapon to the creature's back, and re-purposed the armor plating to bulk it up. I've starting filling out the joints with greenstuff, and will add some extra tubes as well.

I also used parts of the shock cannon to give it a more interesting tail, to help differentiate it from the guard model. You'll also notice that I used a pair of genestealer arms in the center. The codex entry does not note scything talons or rending claws of any kind, so I used the frail looking base genestealer arms to drive home the fact that this is a bio-weapon creature with very little close combat ability.

I knew there was a reason I painted all those spore mines that came with the old 4th edition starter set I bought on ebay 3 years ago! Although, I think I'll repaint them in a green to make them look less like creatures, and more like poison bombs.

-trip