Tyranid Army - Supersize Me?

[andersschm]

Is it just me or are the tyranid models getting larger each release as GW supersizes our army list?

Once upon a time Carnifex used to look like giant beasts, along came plastic Trygons and for a while they towered over everything. Next up comes the tervigon/tyrannofex kit which gives a model as big as imperial sector ruins... little Carnifex don't even get noticed next to these bad boys.

Next codex termagants will be as big as warriors, just you wait!

[gigasnail]

the termagant model is already about 9' long to scale on something that's supposed to be the size of a large dog.

[blindmage]

I'd say Rippers are closer to Dog sized, counting the entire body/tail, Gaunts are huge:

[jahatch42878]

First off, love those older shadow images from the previous codices...

2ndly, yeah, we are no longer a 28 mm game, more like 32 mm heroic scale...

3rd, I don't think gaunts and gants will get any bigger, and I doubt they'd re-do the carnifex plastic kit (although one does wonder about adding a different weapon sprue?), but yeah, everything in the game is getting larger... I mean, old rhinos are tiny now, and imperial guard are not nearly in proportion to the "giant" genetically enhanced Space Marines... plus, don't forget now they want Biovores on 60mm bases.. when was the last "infantry" model that you put on a 60 mm base? lol.. be interesting to see what size something like the Harpy comes in at... I'm not happy with my Tyranid Prime (used the body of the older OOP metal hive tyrant with the huge head) but he does at least fit on a 40mm base...

Josh

[Squire]

It's cool having big, scary looking models but not very practical for transporting. I had to abandon the idea of trygons or mawlocs on the basis that they'd take up too much space. If transport wasn't an issue my vanilla carnifex would probably be a mawloc

[Jabberwocky]

I think the problem is marines have become the norm, even though they are in fact much bigger than humans.

This has meant everything xeno 'stepping up' as the designers obviously scale everything to marines.

[Hive Carnithrope]

About time! The scale in 40k is so off for everything.

IG should be the norm. Space Marines should be as big as Terminators. Termies should be bigger.

As for gaunts, they are meant to be bigger than a man, I believe, so a warrior is closer to the right size! Carnifexes are very undersized.

But then if everything got bigger, it would cost more, so I don't really mind.