Have you ever had a model that you were really enthusiastic
about, but never managed to make any momentum on and ended up being an absolute
chore? That’s what this guy was for me...
I originally decided to build a Flyrant about 2 years ago
when I bought my first Tyrant model (still metal back then...) and one of the
torso pieces were missing. GW were great and immediately gave me a replacement
kit no questions asked and let me keep the original one. I then managed to pick
up the missing piece off a bitz store for about £3 – so win!
Although in 5th Ed Flyrants were prone to being
shot to hell Turn 1, I always liked the idea of having one, so I picked up some
WFB Dragon wings to make a simple conversion.
I then decided to completely repose the model as if it were
just landing and was flaring its wings. I cut apart all of the leg joints and
changed the angles of the shoulders with GS, but I could never get it how I
wanted and the sheer weight of the model kept breaking the pinned joints. I
quickly gave up and remodelled it based on a standing position which annoyingly
looks exactly like the stock model. Oh well.
It got armed with a pair of Scything Talons and a single
pair of Devourers primarily because I didn’t have the extra set of Devourers to
make it a Dakka-Flyrant. Ironically enough, after a few games proxying weapons
with my FW Flyrant, this is actually my favourite configuration; the Devourers
give 6 S6 Twin-Linked shots (re-rolls to-hit) and Vector Strike or psychic
Witchfire count as my secondary shooting attacks. The Scything Talons allow for
re-rolling 1’s to-hit in combat. With all those re-rolls and the fact the
Flyrant is often away from the rest of the army, it makes the need for the Old
Adversary upgrade (grants the Flyrant and units within 6 inches Preferred
Enemy) redundant and saves me 25pts!
The thing then sat in my “back-up WIP box” for around 18
months waiting to be painted until 6th Ed came out and I had loads
of fun playing my FW Flyrant.
Painting seemed to take forever and the model weighs a ton,
but needs to be held at weird angles so you can paint everything. I would constantly paint
one colour and then go off and work on something else...I think I’ve been
painting it for about 6 months now... and to top it off, the Purity Seal
frosted slightly around the top of the model (luckily most of it was covered by
a gloss varnish on the talons).
Overall I'm really not a fan of the model, but I'm hoping to pick up one of the new Tyrant/Flyrant kits to magnetise and make a better job of it.
Overall I'm really not a fan of the model, but I'm hoping to pick up one of the new Tyrant/Flyrant kits to magnetise and make a better job of it.
I think its a pretty darn awesome bug. But two will seriously mess up my carefully laid battle plans!
ReplyDeleteJust attach some flyswatters to a Stormraven and you will be fine.
ReplyDeletejust attach it to Fateweaver for some serious Siph pounding- Siph- the master of the universe can alley with anybody :) lol
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