Building the Warrior-sized Lash Whip from Bits

 Old School here with a quick hobby article for the lash whip hopefuls out there. When I looked at making my lash whip/ bone sword tyrnaid warriors, I already had some black market bone swords, but I really didn't want to invest in flimsy resin lash whips and I didn't want to carve up any rippers to make some per other tutorials (though I think those are the best looking ones), so I dove into the bitz box ...
There were some promising looking bits in there but nothing sang to me, so I put the project away and worked on my harpies and T-fexes ... and after busting out the harpies, I realized that (due to the way I make harpies) I had a ton of the hose-arms for the heavy venom cannons. I pushed the idea aside, but then thought I seen it somewhere on the web (throw me a link if you know where), so I cut one of the hose arms at the wrist, sawed off the scything talon on a warrior talon arm, drilled, pinned and glued.

 The original result looked kind of wierd, so I took the round ball end that connects to the venom cannon and shaped it into a little talon using my hobby knife. Once that was done, I liked how the model looked. I didn't have to do a ton of work to make it fit the Tyranid look because it already was designed to fit it.

I know it isn't the most original conversion or even the best (hey it isn't for everyone), but I think it is functional, will look great painted and is a good alternative for folks without the time or talent for GS'ing a ton of whips and for folks who simply don't want to buy a bunch of resin whips. I will leave you with a shot of the warriors that shows the wrists and gives an idea of how the MC hand fits the warrior wrist. Comments as always, are welcome.