The new Warrior box

[N.I.B.]

I sat down tonight to equip a bunch of Shrikes. I have the previous kit, with those huge, out of scale, Rending Claws. And of course they come only one pair per box. Then I googled a bit - seems there are new, smaller Rending Claws in the new box, and three pairs of them. Now I hesitate to glue those monster claws on.



How do you like them, compared to the old ones?

On a related note, anyone have any experience with this bitz shop? megabitzshop.com/index.php?a=5618

[Barbs]

Personally I like them more than the old ones.. They have the right size instead of being enormous and oversized.. They seem to be "swifter" in my opinion
For my shriek (I'm still converting them ) i used the old arm on which I mounted the genestealer hand with rending claws, and moulded the bits with a little green stuff

[Threeshades]

The new rending claws are more proportionate than the old ones (which quite frankly didn't seem to fit any of the models the sprue came with just right, even at the time, except maybe as the upper arm pair for Warriors)

One thing i don't like about the new claws though is that they are modelled after the genestealers, which have always deliberately been kept to look very different from other tyranid units (toed feet, 5 digits rather than 4, nostrils, ribbed back carapaces and tiny head carapaces), i'd rather have seen a smaller, more proportionate version of the old rending claws.

[immortalblue]

edit ignore me - I mis-read what you were asking

[Mauler]

Nat, you mean the scything talons; the old ones were stupidly massive and made a Warrior look like a mantis?

[N.I.B.]

No I mean the Rending Claws. Compare the old ones to the new in the new Warrior sprue.

Oversized crab arm to the right, puny Genestealer stand-in to the left.

[Kwodd]

I liked the old ones and equipped my set of 9 raveners with them.

[seethe]

For shrikes I used the old rending claws for the feet on some of the models. This was a few years back, but they looked better I thought as feet.

I haven't seen the new ones but on all my winged models I tried to keep the stompy hooves off. Might try fitting a few like that just to see how you like them

[bolk]

I think the new Rending Claws looks much better on Warriors/Shrikes than the old ones, but it`s your models

[N.I.B.]

Me too! That's why I'm thinking about ordering a bunch of the new claws.

[bolk]

What about Ebay? The site you linked seems legit, but might be quite some shipping time if it`s in the US.

Edit: Or it`s in Germany? Disregard my previous stuff

[jinx]

Does anyone have both the old and new Warrior Rending Claws? a side-by-side shot would be incredibly useful

[bolk]

I do, but have to go to bed now for work -.- I can put out a picture tomorrow though on the off chance that noone beats me to it

[bolk]

New Rending Claws:





Old Rending Claws:

[ZergLord]

Nov 12, 2014 21:55:21 GMT N.I.B. said:

No I mean the Rending Claws. Compare the old ones to the new in the new Warrior sprue.

Oversized crab arm to the right, puny Genestealer stand-in to the left.

The new Warrior rending claws are something between those two.

And they are great. I envy the new players who are now buying their first Warrior boxes for the first time, they actually have enough RCs to equip all of their Warriors. I still remember the dark times of 4th Ed when their best weapon loadout was RC+ST, and you could get only 1 pair per Warrior box...