Inspired by all the Tyranid work going on, I thought I should share my progress with Raveners. I saw the Gargoyle/Hormagaunt conversion, but I do not have that many of them to spare, so I thought I should use something I do have spares for as a start: Tyranid Warriors (Epic) and Rippers (40K).


I used the bottom part of the Ripper tail and the upper part of the Tyranid Warrior (minus some legs and tail stump and ended up something like this:


I trimmed off about three Ripper carapace segments and shaved them slimmer:


I used the biggest two Ripper claws as the biggest Ravener claws and used some old banner poles for arm segments:


I used metal flash pieces for the other claws... and voila:


The topic continues in the next post.

/Fredmans

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Then I used some brown stuff for filling and adding a head plate.






Remember the death spitters?


To use instead of arms to symbolize the FF value (I think 3 out of 8 will suffice).


/Fredmans

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Size comparison:


The other parts of the models can be used as well.

Trygon head:


And base fillers (since I will only use 2/base)


Now there is only the painjob to be done.

/Fredmans

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Cool. Inspiring stuff!  

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Holy moley, that ain't bad!

I thought I should finish this thread by showing the painted ones:



...and the Trygon (not quite finished, forgot eyes and final details in mouth)


And for scale purposes:


/Fredmans

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Excellent conversions.

To make it even easier, consider buying the FW rippers who have seperate arms. The heads come in more variant sizes too which make them usefull for various conversions.

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Very nice    

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They came out great.

I like your Lictors too!

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great 'Nids!

can you give some info on how you painted them? Colours and such...

regards,

Probably the best Raveners I think I've seen there, incredible stuff.  Love the paint scheme too.

Brilliant!

Please keep high quality photos of this work for, the eventual, "EPIC: Hive War" supplement!

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These really are brilliant. I can see this becoming the standard way to convert raveners.

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Great job  

I wasn't convinced until the paint was on em.

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Well done indeed!

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