Saturday, February 19, 2011

Grotesque Conversion Part 2

Heres where im at now on my conversion

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Basically what ive done is made some drug dispensor/canisters on his arms and shoulder and added some cabling to it (i was going to use guitar string like most people do but i didnt have any and i didnt want to wait till i could get any)

I also added some spikes onto his back using bits of tail and sprues sharpened to points.

Next step is getting the others somewhat to this stage (the island of blood and screaming bell wont need as much stuff done to them) and they will be ready for an undercoat

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Grotesques Conversion Part 1

While searching the net for some dark eldar models i came across this thread on Bell of Lost Souls

http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?s=e5e4deb8686b438a5223e8a85a13e2a9&t=10558

and i really loved how he did his grotesques, so i decided id steal his idea...

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dark,eldar,dark eldar,grotesques

Heres the group shots of my first 5 guys after theyve been de flashed and put together

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dark,eldar,dark eldar,grotesques

Heres the first one i did.

So basically i got the Island of blood rat ogres and removed the tail as you can see in the 2nd picture, then i got some vampire count ghoul heads and some green stuff and used that for the head

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Same deal with this one as the first one

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This one here is the rat ogre taken from a screaming bell, and i basically did the same stuff as with the Island of Blood ones

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dark,eldar,dark eldar,grotesques

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These two are just some standard rat ogres which i got and did the same with them as with the other 3 only as these came with tails i just didnt put it on them.

I just got a free set of the Island of blood ones as well so ill go and get them up to the same point as the rest then ill get to adding the drug canisters, spikes and some wiring to them and once i do that ill put some more pictures up for part two

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Baron Sathonyx Conversion Part 2

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Heres my progress on the baron conversion....

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i have repositioned the left arm again, tried to make it look sort of like he was brushing his cloak aside

i also basically rebuilt the collar after i placed the head on, but it is shaped differently to the original one, and i have also further built up the double shoulderpad on his right arm but i havent taking pictures of it

as you can see i also have put the seer bones under his cloak to

i also repositioned the phantasm grenade launchers from pointing in to pointing out as in just wasnt working and out sticks so much better and it looks cooler

all that is left to do now is to paint him

Baron Sathonyx Conversion Part 1

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Seeing as there is currently no baron sathonyx model, I decided to make my own so I thought I might take some pictures of it and list a sort of mini tutorial of what I have done so far to go with photos

What I used:

- Hellion skyboard(obviously) - the one you only get one of closely resembles the one sathonyx has in the art for him
- A pair of hellion legs (preferably ones with a bent right leg and straight left if you are wanting to match the codex art for him)
- A male front torso (preferably with leather as that’s what he seems to have in the art) you could use either a wych or hellion
- A dark elf corsair cloak & torso (one with a simple collar works better)
- A hellglaive arm (there is two good options to choose from in the hellion box, I chose the one with the curved arm over the straight as I think it sits better)
- The hellion arm that can be used to have a hellion hold onto the skyboard (or if you have any other more suitable arms that would be good)
- A suitable elf looking head (I'm planning on using one of the heads from the corsairs)

PLUS an optional skull accessory taken from the hellion sprue if you want

(This was a simple conversion so there isn’t much to say about it, everything can basically be seen from the photos)


My inspiration for this conversion was of course the one of the baron in the codex codex

Basically once I had decided on all the bits I started by putting together the skyboard(so far all I’ve done to it is add the phantasm grenade launchers to it, haven’t thought about what else I could do to make it more unique to the rest)


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After doing that I put the legs together, and cut the circular bit off of the corsairs cloak/torso making it flat so that the hellion front torso could go on( a bit of green stuff was also used to fill in the gaps

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Once the torso was taken care of I attached it to the legs trying to put it in a position as close to the codex art as possible


I then added the left arm, followed by a bit of green stuff onto where the right arm goes so that it was better positioned.

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I then attached him to the skyboard

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Pretty much all that is left to do of him now apart from paint him is clean up the green stuff, give him a shoulder pad on his left arm (just going to use one from the hellion sprue and maybe add some extra stuff to it), then I will trim the neck a bit so I can put his head on, after that I only need to add the accessory under his cloak and try and uniqueify his skyboard and he is ready to paint.

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