Showing posts with label conversion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conversion. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

20 more Mechanicum Mutants

I added another 20 mutants to the roster bringing the unit up to 30.  Plus the boss.  So 31 total and I still have the enforcer to build as well.  I'm think I may make the enforcer some sort of servitor to administer the combat drug injections for the unit.

I'm using the Mutant rules from the Heretics and Renegades list.  They are essentially conscripts with 2 close combat weapons.  You can give them combat drugs which give them Rage.  So 4 attacks on the charge, WS2, S3 but only 3 points a piece.  They also get a 6+ save and a 6+ FNP to represent their mechanical nature.  Fully decked out with the Boss with a power axe and Melta Bomb and the enforcer with a power weapon and drug injector is about 140 points.  Not a great unit by any means but I still love the idea of them and finally came up with a conversion that, I think, represents them well on the table top.

The next batch of conversions got a little more work.  I replaced spines with necrons spines, added some different claw hands from the Rust Stalker models and various other bits cut off from all manner of weapons and back packs.  All in all I am very happy with how they turned out and it's really got me reinvigorated about conversions.

Group photo of new batch of mutants:
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Here's a bunch of individual pics to show some of the details.  There were chosen at random but give a good idea of the over all look and feel of the unit.

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Even the Boss got some nice new combat drug injectors.

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Friday, May 13, 2016

New Batch of Mutants with Some New Bits

I ordered a couple of boxes of GW Ghouls to add to my small mutant unit.  I had 10 and got 20 more which I finally got time to start on yesterday.  I've found some other bits for these guys by digging through my Necron sprues.  I'm using the spines from the immortals on some of them.  I trim them down and then bend them to fit the curvature of the ghouls hunched body.  I think it looks pretty decent and will look better once I add the additional wires and what not.

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I'm in need of additional Skitarri heads and Necron spines.  I'd also be interested in rust stalker arms and hands from the two different builds.  If you have any to part with let me know!  I'd gladly buy or trade for them.

Thanks

Friday, April 29, 2016

Spawn complete

Looks like I forgot to post pics of the spawn painted up.  It's been a crazy 6 months so it's not too shocking.  I think these guys turned out pretty good.  They are always fun to convert and paint.

Slightly converted FW spawn.  I replace a few of the bits that were going to easy break off or already had broken off.

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One of the older GW spawn converted a bit.  You can see my poor attempt at a freehand eyeball there.  It's really bad...

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A converted Kromech spawn.

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A stock Kromlech spawn/mutant thing.  Notice after my previous terrible eye I decided not to muck this eyeball up. :)  I love those little arms on top, too funny.

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Another older GW spawn.

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As you have probably guessed, I like spawn but not the current GW spawn models.  The do have some nice bits though, just not a fan of the bodies primarily I guess.

 

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Expanded Mutants

So I really wasn't liking the direction of the mantic ghouls for the mutants.  They were just too plain looking and the variety of poses was very limited.  I raided my brothers bits box and 'borrowed' all him skitari bits and start hacking.  This is what I wound up with.  A more techno/mutant theme which I really like.  I'm treating them as archaic dilapidated combat servitors. 


 



For the mutant champion I decided to convert a chaotic tech priest of sorts.  Using bits from my brother and the chaos cultist champion I hacked this fellow together.  He needs some clean up work and some green stuff work but for the most part he's done.




I enjoyed making these mutants so much I decided to scrap the mantic ghouls and ordered 2 more boxes of GW ghouls.  I plan to add an enforcer to the unit and I am thinking of using a scylax or something similar to represent him.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

WIP of some chaos spawn

I love chaos spawn.  The models allow lots of creativity and painting them is great as well.  So I figured I would dig some various spawn out and start swapping pieces around on ones that were duplicates or that I just didn't care for.


This is the old metal spawn.  I had two of them so I decided to tear one down and add bits from the chaos spawn sprue.
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The one on the left is a Forge World Fantasy chaos spawn that came with a chaos sorcerer.  The model is great but its original arms and quite thin and its fingers snapped off almost instantly.  So rather than have him run around with no fingers I decided to remove his arms and swap some other bits on.

The one on the right is a Kromlech spawn.  I had two of them so I started adding plastic chaos spawn bits to the body.


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The all still need a little green stuff work around their joints which I will get to shortly, hopefully.