Tyranids Harpy/Hive Crone
A Harpy is a flying Skyswarm bioform of Tyranid. Larger and more powerful than their closely-related bioform the Gargoyle, Harpies are roughly comparable to an aerial Trygon.
Harpies have a sinuous, snakelike body, with a broad head covered in organic armor. A pair of very large, leathery wings give them flight, and enable them to out-manoeuvre many aircraft.
The Magi Biologis of the Adeptus Mechanicus have argued whether Harpies and Trygons are closely related bio-forms or separate genuses in their own right. However, few comparative studies have been made, and to date, phylogenetic categorization remains highly speculative.
Lending weight to the arguments of those taxonomists who classify the two life forms as distinct is the fact that, unlike the sturdy, heavily-armoured carapace of the Trygon, the Harpy's frame is relatively fragile (though still quite resilient by Human standards).
The Harpy, like many avian and other airborne fauna catalogued by Codiciers throughout the Imperium, is hollow-bodied and thus unable to survive injuries that might not even faze other Tyranid Creatures of similar size.
Harpies, or at least void-adapted variants of them, are capable of spaceflight. Tyranid hive fleets regularly use swarms of them in the role of primary space superiority fighter, protecting larger Hive Ships from enemy fighters, bombers and torpedoes.
This set contains 69 plastic components to build either a Harpy or a Hive Crone. It is unpainted and requires assembly.
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