Tyranids in February (HOAX)

[Learn2Eel]

EDIT: This is a fake image that popped up on 4chan to provoke excitement in gullible Tyranid fans (like me).



This image is strongly believed to be a hoax. It is being left up as a public service.

This makes 2 hoax images in 1 week appearing on 4chan - be VERY SKEPTICAL of any future images from that source.

[Bigred]

Hold your horses...

Some points:

1) There is a known 40k photoshop faker on 4chan (the Steel Legion hoax)
2) The image used in that cover is available from the GW Tyranid codex iTunes store
3) "Iyanden" is not aligned with "The Battle For"
4) We have word of "Battle For Macragge" as the Tyranid based warzone book.
5) A plastic Hierophant? The design studio shies away from just ripping existing FW models in plastic.
6) Title font graphic treatment is different from past Warzone books (look at the Pandorax/Damnos cover below)



My opinion on this is I think we have a prankster that has a passing knowledge of photoshop out there on 4chan fishing - but luckily he's not a very good digital artist. I've been professionally making and directing digital art for 2 decades now. There are a lot of little subtle things that you expect to see on an authentic piece. This one has none of them.

[Learn2Eel]

Hold your horses...

Some points:

1) There is a known 40k photoshop faker on 4chan (the Steel Legion hoax)
2) The image used in that cover is available from the GW Tyranid codex iTunes store
3) "Iyanden" is not aligned with "The Battle For"
4) We have word of "Battle For Macragge" as the Tyranid based warzone book.
5) A plastic Hierophant? The design studio shies away from just ripping existing FW models in plastic.
6) Title font graphic treatment is different from past Warzone books (look at the Pandorax/Damnos cover below)



My opinion on this is I think we have a prankster that has a passing knowledge of photoshop out there on 4chan fishing - but luckily he's not a very good digital artist. I've been professionally making and directing digital art for 2 decades now. There are a lot of little subtle things that you expect to see on an authentic piece. This one has none of them.

Yeah I guess you're right I'm just so excited about Tyranids in general that I guess I - and quite a few others by the sounds of it - just jumped at the possibility of a second wave.
Cheers

Do you mind deleting this thread so no one gets tricked by it? Cheers mate.