Hi guys – back to my repainting theme; one of the worst
offenders in my army was the first Tervigon conversion that I made and painted.
I really can’t even stand to look at this any more and it lives hidden in a box
unless I ever desperately need a third Tervigon.
To be honest, until the official Tervigon models were
released, I was actually pretty happy with the model itself; it seemed to be
about the right size (it’s about double the size of a Carnifex), but new ones
just blow it out of the water.
At some point into the hobby though, I realised that the
paintjob was hideous and it was either bin or redo – and as much as I would
like another GW Tervigon, I’m not made of money...
The first thing I did was strip off all the paint with a
bath in Fairy Power Spray. It cleaned up nicely and I then looked at how I
would re-model it. As I said above – I was relatively happy with the size, but
it needed a large oval base. Comparing it to the size of a GW Tervigon, it was
also too small to be used in tournaments without me feeling a little guilty and
getting a size advantage. So rather than change the model itself, I decided to
make a bit of a scenic base to increase its size.
After having a couple of 6th Ed games with
Tervigons, I have got to say – Smash is awesome with Crushing Claws! For about
25pts, the Tervigon gets an extra D3+1 attacks (off the top of my head I
think...) which apply after its base attacks have been halved. That means that
on the charge, a Tervigon can have between 5 and 7 S10 AP2 (re-rolling
penetration) attacks. Goodbye Land Raider! So it obviously had to have a
pair...
I thought it would also be nice to use some spares from another
Tyrannofex/Tervigon kit and give it a little baby....*aaahhhhhh*...
I then gave it the now -standard paint scheme and I’m pretty
happy with the results; especially compared to the original.
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