Spinefist Ripper

[BattleMetalChris]

As we know, the standard Spinefist Rippers from the Genestealer sprues look a little.... 'special'.

I had a go at bashing together a ripper and a Gant's spinefist today and am pretty pleased with the result. It looked a little odd until I chopped out the front of an adrenaline sac and stuck that on top behind the spinefist.

[barizac]

Interesting way of going about it iv always found the other ones abit weird looking

[glitchrr36]

I personally like the normal ones, but i can see why people don't

[BattleMetalChris]

I'm planning to have a random assortment of the 'proper' ones, and two variations of my own kitbashing; the guy above and one where I cut the spinefist into three and glued the outer halves together, reducing its height, then cut the bottom jaw off the ripper and put the whole thing in his mouth.

I'll do some photos once all three are done.

[Kwodd]

Really like the paint scheme.

[BattleMetalChris]

Here's the little guy finished:

[hive fleet cicaida]

im surprised you didn't cut the fist down to be more size appropriate, might give the conversion more credence. i think the piping jutting out of the jaw is a nice touch, and its still great work.

[Threeshades]

This doesn't work for me either, it looks overloaded and top heavy. I'd rather just declare that my rippers can spit stuff amd that's it.

[blackrainbow]

I like the conversion for conversions sake, but doing that to say, 4/base x3 bases/brood seems maddening to me. Still cool work, little top heavy as mentioned but it still works. Look how top heavy the exocrene or pyrovore seem. Not even going to comment on the (standard awesome) paint job you did.

[peacemaker]

Great conversion work. It's hard to tell that it is a conversion.
Although it does look top heavy and disproportionate. ....kinda like alot of 3rd edition Tyranid models. (Remember Tyranid Warrior with Hive Tyrant arms?)