Hail The Desert Hydra! Skorne Gets A Mighty Monster For Hordes
January 10, 2017 by brennon
Privateer Press hasn't left Hordes out of the releases for this month (January 11th) as Skorne get themselves the awesome Desert Hydra, their mighty Gargantuan.
"With five huge heads independently biting and spitting acid at its foes, the Desert Hydra is one of the most devastating warbeasts the Skorne Empire has ever captured and conditioned for war. Each head can release a focused spray of highly corrosive acid or snatch up opponents to be devoured by its gaping, hellish jaws.
Flesh hooks protruding from beneath armoured plates keep the beast maddened with pain, spurring it to further carnage even after suffering multiple decapitations."
Now that is one brilliant looking creature. I love the work on the armour plating on the heads and how it works nicely with the natural armour of the beast as you look down its back. Each of the heads looks deadly and it's a nice touch to have the smaller ones there too as if they've just regrown from its body.
What do you think of the Desert Hydra?
"I love the work on the armour plating on the heads and how it works nicely with the natural armour of the beast as you look down its back..."
Does it do “the thing” where if you chop off one head another two grow back in it’s place?? If so that maybe hard to model……*oh I’m being silly*……*again*………No, it is a very nice multi-headed desert serpent.. As it is a gargantuan, ant idea of it’s size…..not that the size of the serpent matters……*apparently
That’s a 120 mm bases its over hanging
Oh that’s just over compensating… It’s huge
That is one good looking huge hydra.
Ooh looks brilliant.
I love it! A bit different take than the average hydra.
@nehpets – agreed! 🙂
This is one of my favourite Hordes miniatures, alongside the Storm Raptor, Swamp Horror, and Brun Cragback’s armoured Bear ‘Lug’.
Such a great sculpt, and hard plastic kit – standards in the industry really are shooting up.
Exactly. I loved when PP started going mainstream with the plastics.
I adore this model. It will be really interesting to see how it works after the Skorne errata hits.
I got to say its about time this was released! I don’t get PP and the release scheduled they have. It was almost a year ago that I seen a preview of this and the other big guys, yet it just now that we get to buy them. Better late than never I guess.