Conversted Tyrant Guard

Just a quick update on this month tale of 4 gamers project. I’ve been converting some tyrant guard out of tyranid warriors for two reasons, conversions look cool and add loads of character to the army and I need something to keep my hive tyrant alive.

Starting with a standard tyranid warrior as the base for the conversion I first tilted the body further forward to give a sturdier, hunched over appearance and replaced the head with a spare genestealer head from last month’s models. I used the head with the carapace completely covering the eyes because the fluff states that tyrant guard are blind. For the arms I used the warrior scything talons on the front limbs and the rending claws from the monster arms sprue for the second set. I positioned these so the guard are walking on their knuckles like a gorilla. Finally I added loads of armour plates from the hive tyrant, monster arms and biomorphs sprues and made a scything tail from off cuts of warrior head carapaces and armour plates sculpted from green stuff.

I’m still painting them up, but for now enjoy the work in progress photos