This will be glorious...

>>3365327

Scriptarius - KING of disposable income.

Progess report

>>3365415
this would look better if you used the Extra Armour kit from Forgeworld OR made your own from thick Plasticard. That way it will blend in with the size of the terrain pieces you are using

Progress report again

Exterior core assembly complete

No sponson inferno cannons/flamers/meltas?

>>3365833
I'm trying to keep it rules legal
Were I not, it'd already have an exorcist launcher.
>But worry not, I have plans to pimp it up some more come the main body

Holy fucking shit this going to be awesome

rolled 86 + 50 = 136

Fuck yeah, Scriptarius.

>>3365327
I just came a brick...

>>3365838

you emailed GW about that too? fucking redshirts ruined my theme army

SCRIPTARIUS WHERE IS THE BATTLEWAGON

YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE BATTLEWAGON

also keyboard+shoe on head plz

Hey Scriptarius.
You should totally tell me where you get your ideas from.

>>3365972
Meh, I asked about the reason and aparently most of the Sisters range has become Direct-Only as it doesn't sell well.
>>3366013
The battlewagon idea was scrapped due to high probability of fail.
And no, I can't be assed to put on a shit to take a decent pic of myself placing obejcts on my head. Sorry.

>>3366023
He's gotten alot from here.

>>3366023
Well, my usual sources of inspiration are the codices. Reading through them often gives me a few "Well this doesn't have a model yet, I could make one..." moments. Other sources are the internets ("Oh look someone failed horribly with a conversion. I bet I can do it better"), WD/Source Material ("Sweeeet pic. I could convert that.")
And sometimes it's just me leafing through a catalogue or walking around the LGS. Then some model just catches my eye and I think "What could I do with THIS one then?"

>>3366036
This.
/tg/ is a constant source of ideas and the support that keeps me doing this.

>>3366048
You are single-handedly keeping GW afloat.

>>3366048
One thing that may interest you:

Look through the Codex: Chaos Daemons, and you'll see that none of Tzeentch's named Daemons have models (The shapeshifter guy, and the two dudes charged with finding spells).

>>3366033

im using whirlwinds for my exorcists...

Did you ever finish Angron Scriptarius?

Did anyone ever try that Primarch Freeman conversion after we figured out he was an avatar of Tzeentch?

Everthough about a DH Baneblade with Sanctified Battlecannon, Psycannons, etc ?

>>3366068
Valkia and the other Khornate daemon cought my eye there
>>3366073
Still needs an arm and a head. I'm stuck for ideas...
>>3366080
Nope. I did make a concept but never got aroudn to making him.

In the name of the God Emporer! This will be GLORIOUS!
I am follwinf this and mill likly mimic/modify your design for myself.

>>3366100
>Emporer
>follwinf
>mill likly
Remember, kids, don't drink and post.

Scriptarius you fool! stop whilst you still can!!!

Build a STORMLORD! Baneblade variant from apoc:reload transport goodness!

>>3366096
>>3366080

Make some of the other Primarchs and you sir will be even more of a /tg/ legend

>>3366156
>Missquoted >>3366073

Phew. You guys probably have NO IDEA how annoying fitting that giant aquilla there was.

It was two times wider than the space inside, about an inch too tall and 3 times thicker than the engine block that's supposed to go there.
BUT I WANTED IT THERE SO BY THE EMPEROR IT WILL FIT.

And the windows are pretty cool, giving an interior view

>>3366156
I did make Horus

>>3366181

Needs more topknot.

>>3365966
This... by the Emperor, it HURTS!

>>3366208
You're thinking of Failbaddon the Armless, Sir.

>>3366172
NOT GOOD ENOUGH
YOU FAIL THE EMPEROR
YOU SHOULD HAVE SCALED UP THE LAND RAIDER TO MAKE IT FIT

>>3366212
I made him too
But I stuck some arms on just for lulz

Have you finished your Inquisitor yet?

>>3366181

Needs moar Ferrus Manus

>>3366265
ooh, i got an idea for you man, how about a chaos lord of nurgle on a palanquin which can look like a throne being dragged by nurgling's or what ever your mind fancy's. this is what a palanquin should look like.

\|/
-|-
/|\

CHAOS

>>3366307
He's next in line after the Land Raider
Speaking of which, TRACK GUARDS

I'm impressed. Well done, sir.

And you said you're not a god of conversion.

And you said you were bad at tanks.

Liar.

>>3366321
Cool idea. I need to look into that if I feel nurgly
>>3366308
Ol' Ironmittens is one of my fav primarchs so I might indeed make him some day.
>>3366606
I guess I got better at tanks.
I still reserve the "God of Conversion" title to the guys who made the Primarch minis.

Scriptarius, you are Godly beyond God.
The true king of conversion.

How is your huge demon thing coming along?

Ok the main part of the tank is coming together
Soon it's time for the actual detailwork
Right at the moment I'm weighing some ideas, such as a red carpet on the acess ramp, a SM statue, some handrails on top of the raider, placement for the Fleur De Lys' and cherubs, etc.

Some fag at my LGS glues cities of death terrain all over his Space marine vehicles, very similiar to what you are doing OP. People absolutely love it and I have no idea why, they are lazy conversion if you ask me nothing really creative.

>>3366704
Well, to each their own.
I've seen tanks caked with terrain and even terrain with tracks and guns, and I didn't like them either. That's why I now, instead of just slapping building walls on the tank, cut them up to make them fit better and look nicer.
This is an example of what I wanted to avoid. Cluttered boxy crap.

>>3366181

not awesome enough, try again I have faith in you.

>>3366727
Dude I made it out of boredom.
I might fix him up a bit later
But now back to my tank

>>3366720

wow, remove those giant box side sponsons and the turret on top and thats what i see on a regular basis at my LGS.

>>3366734

I know and I believe you are capable of better.

The only thing worse then terminators assaulting out of a land raider are GREY KNIGHT terminators assaulting out of a LANDRAIDER STUDDED WITH I's

I love the flamestorm incinerators on this baby

>>3366769
How about a melee-orientated Inquisitor and his tooled up retinue
In a 500pts game

>>3366825
fuck a melee inquis. unless you ally a DH one?

>>3366847
WH one with a full melee retinue.
I grew bored of Psycannon + 3 gunservitors inquisitors.

Also core assebly done
>I hate doing tracks...

>>3366893

>>3366899

alot of gapz.. you is gonna fix that bro?

>>3367028
Yeah
It's not glued together so I can paint the innards.

Opinnions on the decoration placement please, before I glue anything on.

>>3367156
the bits on the very top, either side of the heavy bolter, look fucktarded.

Otherwise looking good.

Also, why not just kit the inquis with flamers and plas dudes so you can me a moving slaughterfarm. and fuck yeah psycannon <3

>>3367264
If I wanted to go ALL POWER it'd be something along the lines of 40 GKtermies.
This project isn't designed to win tournaments. It's designed to look cool.

>>3367156

I think those bits ontop look really out of place, like you just glued them on for the hell of it. All the other CoD bits are apart of the model, those are not.

>>3367156
I really like the usage of the Heavy Bolters in the front turret, I can't wait to see this completed and painted up !

Bump for Epic.

sage JUST for those stupid extra bits on top (apart from the glass)

Ok I got rid of the top things and added some more crap on the sides

And interior view
The glass dome really gives it a nice feel

>>3367790
Looks much better now.

Script, we really need to see a photo of everything on your work table one of these days. Or at least a gallery of everything you've done.

>>3367880
Za Table

sage for shitty conversion

And the bigass crate I used to transport around half my minis

I can't fit my bitzboxes into a photo so i'll provide one after I arrange them another day

>>3367926
Oh you.

>>3367912
why is your cutting mat so shiny anyways?

>>3367962

cum

>>3367962
More powerful lamp than before.

Trying out more crap

Hm. I like it when my tanks look symmetrical. Would it be possible to rebuild the front in a way to let the front turret sit right in the middle? It might meed a bit of sheet styrene to achieve that, but OH! so worth it.

>>3368091
INTERIOR CROCODILE ALLIGATOR
I DRIVE A PIMPED OUT LAND RAIDER

>>3368202
I also like symmetrical things but I'd need a 2nd Immolator to make it properly...

scriptarius waiiiiit

I have a spare exorcist bitz set you can have

theres metal bitz that go on the front side where that fleur de lis is that look much better

>>3368091
have you considered putting rockets on them?

you shall not dieeeee

>>3368271
Am I the only one who thinks those circles look dumb as hell?

>>3368406
no. they're stupid.

bump

>>3368406
>>3368448
They'd be a great place to mount discs cut from the Black Reach templates for HUDs, though.

>>3368259
Do you have a spare organist? I have all the parts of an exorcist EXCEPT the girl and it's a real swine.

Hell if there's any chance script would only wont the organ pipes, I could really do with the chair+organist. I have two sets of pipes, but only one chair (at the moment with a converted flamer retributor in). If I could get another chair and sister I could field two exorcists.

I already have the side parts (and could just copy the plates onto plasticard anyway)

Damn /b/ and it's antics
Anyway, back on track then.
>>3368259
I bit my toungue, great.
DAMNIT I'd like those.
>>3368271
Rockets on Land Raiders?

>>3371185
I've got a landraider and the plates, let me quickly show you the problems with them

Hey Script, I'm making a miniature of you to fit into my warhammer fantasy army, got a suggestion for a good starting model?

none of the plates quite fit or line up right, apart from the forward corner isn't too terrible, but certainly wouldn't line up with the otherone; the images fill the lines so when you cut into it you tend to bork them =/ front corners aren't terrible.

backs of the pictures, not that it matters much, they can be shaved/cutdown

the metal pane for the front of the rhino chassis is too big, even with the dges cut down =<

looking good
this makes me want to go out now buy some landraiders and turn them into the BIG russes I plan for my armoured company, might get an imperial sanctum to pimp out my comand tanks aswell.
also what i think might look good is if you get some of the plastic from the blisters do it up like stained class and stick it in the windows on the side

>>3371185
>rockets on Land Raiders?
Yes indeed.

>>3371407
Looking back, the Helios doesn't look as cool as I remember it.

>>3371407
not available to Witch Hunter armies.

>>3371261
My own mini of myself was based off Fabius Bile, but for a more WFB approach, you might want to try some of the Mordheim Witch Hunters, or possibly the High Elf Archers for a good coat without any 40k stuff on it.
>>3371301
>>3371308
>>3371313
Well most of the crap I put on my Raider didn't come close to fitting well so I shaved bits off both it and the tank chasis itself. I'm confident I can work around it.
>>3371393
Those big russes look damn cool IMO. THe same method also makes fine-ass Malchadors or whatever they were called.

>>3371416
Bah, technicalities.

>>3371426
if he -does- have the organist/chair, can I grab it? It's annoying not having even one complete exorcist.

>>3371477
Do ya need the keyboard/front plate?
I doubt I'll stick the Exorcist stuff on this Raider (I've grown fond of the Fleurdelys') but Emperor knows what I'll think of next.
Are there any cool Apoc-only Inquisitorial tanks or Imperial Armour Inquisitorial tanks?

Also Exorcistdude, whats the plan of getting them to me? Need a street adress for mailing or?

>>3371492
Okay well what I have, is two organ stacks, and one organist chair which I've converted a flamer retributor to be the organist for; so really I'd want to grab the keyboard assembly as well as the sister if possible, because then I can have two completed exorcists, which will have two different organists so won't look too uniform.

Now, in Apoc, you can take anything, and I'd MASSIVELY recommend looking at the Stormlord. Baneblade variant with a vulcan megabolter as it's main gun (which I think would look cool as an organ pipe assemly), and can carry 40 troops, 20 of which can fire from the top, and all of which count as open topped for embark/disembark 14/13/11 av I beleive, but you can remove the sponsons for 14/14/11.

Want pictures of what the organist components look like?

>>3371516
I can settle for the organ pipes and the decorative plates

As for Apoc tanks, pics are appreciated. I don't really give half an ass about stats as long at it looks awesome.

>>3371568
There's no model for it yet =/ will be released in March as I understand.

http://chicagoterrainfactory.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/baneblade-005.jpg normal baneblade.

They're fun, and big, so lots to work with; I'd quite like to make a miniature chapel for my sisters, would be fun. In apoc you can use a rule called Holy Rage, which you declare if you will use before the first turn, or deployment or something. It means that all units with adepta sororitas rule gain RAGE AND RELENTLESS whilst they are outside your deployment zone.

So you could mount retributors on the stormlord, so they'd ignore rage, and they could fire even if it moved.

This shows some of the interior of a basic baneblade, as someone tries to convert their own stormlord

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/214909.page

Hey Script, you free enough for idle conversion talk?

I've spoke to my 'resident converter' about that Kholek Suneater thing (you know, with the Stegadon and Soul Grinder) and we'll proberbly have a go at it. Still intend making one yourself?

>>3371590
Hoo boy I really need to catch up on the Apoc rules.

By the way, last I checked, there were hardly ANY Apoc specialites for Inquisitorial armies (nor Grey Knights or Sisters). I recall a 4 assassin killteam rule and something about Orbital bombardments but that's it.
I care because this cathedraltanking is so much fun it might actually deter me away from my original plan of making an AdMech apoc army and derail it into an Inquisitor army

just wanted to say thanks scriptarius for giving us conversionholics some food for thought. keep up the good work.

>>3371612
Ah, well the baneblade stuff isn't inquisition only, but it's fluffy that an inquisitor that was gonna take a landraider would be like: I'm having that baneblade!

Sadly Holy War for rage and relentless is the ONLY things sisters got; we still don't have anything of our own.

>>3371597
Damnit that's a fineass conversion. I'll need to think of something else.
>>3371615
No problem mate. I hope whatever you make turns out well
>>3371605
Improbable. I got my 40k groove back on so I don't think I'll touch WFB for a while. But if I do feel the need, he is second on my list. Valkia still takes prioroty.

>>3371620
Yes that's the problem with Inquisitor armies. IF you leave out the orders militant they become a bit bland. Which I find very strange.
Inquisitors are important enough to get 2 whole games based around them (well as much as you can say that about Dark Heresy) and several novels and great chunks of fluff revolve around them.
Yet for TT you only get 2 lord variants, 2 elite variants, daemonhosts, stormies and arbites.

>>3371626
Chapel it up: I mean you've already got arches and what have you. I know I'm going to be sculpting statues and recasting them for when I make mine. 40 sistas in one box >=3

Sucks repentia can't ride in them. I might just cut off the swords of my 22 and give them chains so they can DRAG IT INTO BATTLE.

Glad you like sisters too though =3 they have my fave theme. Hate that people convert away the organs for exorcists, really suit the army. Though I've had to convert bolter sisters with helmets into melta sisters because it seemed strange that you'd have girls with massive welding guns not having any face protection.

I'm about to head out to the gym and grab dinner; if you throw an email to rubyquesttest on googlemail.com if you find out the exorcist guy does have the organist/chair on offer I'd really appreciate it.

>>3371666
I'll try to remember, have a good one.

Back to Inquisitors then.
In my mind they contain some of the best GRIMDARK aesthetic of the lot. Religious Nazi Partyvan. The combination of Inquisi-bling and the SWAT-look of Stormies is just lovely. It's just too bad they are near-pointless without Sisters or Knights.

>>3371626
Ah, fair enough. Can't wait to see your Valkia when you get around to it.

I'm looking at making some light cavalry, for my Empire, and some sort of bodyguard unit on foot while I'm at it. 4 boxes of Pistolliers and a Militia box.

Militia bodies on Pistollier legs/mounts and Pistollier bodies on Militia legs. I just don't know what arms to go with. At first I was thinking of giving the cavalry the halberds you get with the Militia and then old school halberds for the foot slogging unit.

Open to suggestion from anyone here, not just Script.

>>3371746
Well the last time I messed around with pistolliers I got this.

I'd say if you have enough bitz, the Outrider heads + pistollier bodies + militia legs + militia 2h-swords would make some badass plastic greatswords

>>3371760
Sweet jesus. The way they're holding thier repeaters. I mean, wow, that's pretty cool for something so simple in essense.

Anyway, plastic greatswords sounds like a good plan. I'll have to count how many Militia greatswords I have. I know I have State Troop 2-handed swords as well but they are so...short.

I made some plastic Warrior Priests (among others) using the 8 Militiamen in the old Empire Battalion (I mean there was 8, what the hell kind of number is that?) as well as a few captains. I'll have to take pics, I'm reasonably proud of them, whether or not they took much skill.

That reminds me. Some guy was here earlier today looking for you, Scriptarius. Did you catch the thread?

>>3371829
Oh yeah that guy who wanted to see my conversions.
I was going to post in it but then the Tenchu thread hit me and I was stuck watching that. When I got over that, I couldn't find the conversionthread anymore.
But by the look of it it was probably another guy from Warseer or B&CS or something. I've had a few of them asking me to join their sites but I prefer /tg/. You guys have a better attitude towards random converting.
>>3371816
Post away. I like seeing the works of others.

And from me a small request: Can someone post sum Stormtroopers and/or related artwork/pics (SWAT, BOPE, etc)

>>3371911
Damn you, Scriptarius.

I don't have the money to buy more stuff right now and I'm waiting for the Stompa kit to combine it with the Baneblade kit.

>>3371942
Also, I remembered my camera is broken and I can't even take pics of my latest orks.

(Merc) Captain w/ brace of pistols
(Merc) Captain w/ brace of pistols
(Emp) Captain with handgun
Warrior Priest
Warrior Priest

Um, yeah.

>>3372187
Nice, very nice indeed.
I made some empire dudes at one point but stipped msot of them for parts later...

>>3372255
Though it's hard to see, I gave the 2 priests the Sigmar body from the Empire Knights.

Hohh, man. That tank is looking badass, Script, keep up the good work!

I wish I could start converting. I mean, I'm fine for leaving my basic troops as they are, but when I get a big, special unit, I wanna do something different with him/it, which generally only comes down to me painting them with a little more effort and detail...

Can anyone recommend any sort of... beginners guides to model conversion? Something that begins quite slow and easy-ish and eventually leads on to more advanced things?

>>3371416
lolololol yes it is you get it and build it slap witch hunter symbols all over it and call it an exorcist

Always liked the FW one... When GW sold the plastic version, the resin used to be cheaper too...

>>3372569
Nobody as far as I know has writen a "guide to converting". There is a painting one and a terrain one but that's it.
Try some google-fu.
If your google-fu is weak, I can give some pointers if you ask.

>>3371911
Heres somthing i found in my arbites folder, looks very SWAT-ish. Of all my guard units, my storm troopers are the the only ones I haven't converted, damn all metal models.

One cool thing about the imolator weapons is that they fit on the land raider sponsons, and for each immolator you get 3 sets of guns!

Im decking my land raider out with heavy bolters on the side sponsons!

>>3372676

My google-fu has proven me to be weak... I looked before I posted before and nothing useful/related came up. Some people were looking for 40k to D20 conversions. I lol'd.

Any pointers would be helpful, cheers.

Scrip, seriously, you should go about writing a Guide to Converting.

Even if it's just simple 'Make a model look as if it's running' stuff.

>>3372809
This.

It'd help alot of people.

>>3372728
Look! Stormies! STORIMIES! Our enemies field METAL MODELS! We... should convert... those METAL MODELS.

>>3372769
Right. To quote WD: "Converting doesn't always mean the final result has to look like death incarnate, be 3 feet tall and look nothing like the original model. Little alterations can make a big difference"

To me, the msot fundamental conversion is Kitbashing. Taking 2 or more boxsets and mixing the parts. There are different levels to this.
>Beginner
Take the Black Templar Crusader box and Devastator box. Make Templar Devastators
>Intermediate
Take a box of High Elf Archers, Guardsmen and Wood elf Glade Guard. Make robed guardsmen
>Advanced
Take a Giant, a Stegadon and a Souldgrinder. Make a Shaggoth
>Expert
Take a land raider and a cities of death building. See this thread
>Master
Take 2 carnosaurs, a Bloodthirster, a Chaos Dragon, Archaon, a Chaos terminator Lord, Abaddon and a Chaos Knight. Make a chaos lord on a Dragon
>God
See >>3366656

Kitrbashing is a good place to start converting. Take a unit you want to make, then look through some cool models from other sets, pick the parts you like about them and combine them to the unit you are making.

>>3372809
I wonder if citadel takes freelance work...

>>3372831

The simplicity of this guide is astonishing - which makes it all the more useful (I don't have to follow a strict guide and then try to apply it to different models).
It's so simple that I'm embarassed that I had to ask in the first place...

Thanks, Script.

Kitbashing is fun.

>>3372831
And incase my examples made no sense, they are

Beginner - two similar kits of the same range
Intermadiate - two or more kits of different ranges but still modular with eachother
Advanced - several unrelated kits of roughtly the same size to form a larger whole
Expert - several unrelated kits alltogether requiring large armounts of trimming and refitting
Master - A crapload of seemingly random parts which still come together to form a uniform finish
God - WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN-
>Here's my take at Master

>>3372831
A quick question on kitbashing if I may?

Do you have any experience bashing together plastic dragon ogres? What with the actual models being old, metal and expensive, I kinda want to try and force together cold ones (Saurus version), ogre bulls and (probably) chaos spawn, but get the feeling they'd end up far to topheavy, with spindly little legs. Do you have any advice on stopping them looking stupid, or different kits to get the same effect?

>>3373014
Cold Ones (Dark Elf) + Black Orks
You need just a sliver of GS to fix the waist gap and they look brilliant.

>>3373012
Where are the carnosaurs? Or are they providing superstructure on the back of the model?

>>3373038
The heads and torso are 2 carnosaurs
The ass is the chaos dragon
The horns and wings the Bloodthirster
The rest went into the chaos lord

>>3373034
Aren't the dark elf coldies even spindlier? And I presume there's some kind of head-swap involved? Although I suppose some gor heads (or at least horns put on the orcs) would work reasonably well

>>3373081
As the black orks aren't as massive as ogres, the skinnier cold ones work too. Also the pose is far more dynamic. But that's just me talking.
Ork heads work perfectly well. Sculpt a nose on and slap some horns on the side of the helmet and it's good to go.

>>3373106
They just seem so...tiny to me *citadel catalogue at hand for comparison*

I mean I see the idea, but the Ogres are still of Ogre proportions.

What if, still sticking to the Cold Ones (Lizardmen), the lower part is 'fattened' up. Instead of just putting the two hald together as normal, there is a reasonable gap filled with greenstuff and then Ironguts attached.

That would look proportional AND (if using Lizardmen) you waste less as it's 8 Cold Ones to 4 Ironguts, so just get two boxes of Ogres.

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>>3373184
Well feel free to try but I've had experience with ogres and I warn you, they are wide as fuck so the final result may look really silly.
Note that a plastic bull is about ½ times wider than a Dragon Gore torso, if not more.

>>3373410
Well I'll be, so it is.

Worth a shot though.

>>3367797

Needs a prayer altar over on the left.

MINI TANK CHURCH FUCK YEA

Also, your tread guards are sticking out a little uncomfortably past the original parts of the tank, it looks a little odd. Uh, to clarify, I'm not speaking about the sides, I'm referring to where the edge is sitting over the treads, it goes out a bit far.

>>3373859
Yeah I worred about thast track guard problem too but the thing it I can't shorten them without messing the whole things up pretty much
The interior might indeed benefit from an altar or similar

>>3373874
I always liked the gun at the back near the screen, good old trinity.

>>3371393

I have a russ based on a Land Raider frame, sadly it has a crap paint job and the picture I have is just as crappy. But it's impressive on the table top, command tank for my AC.

>>3374311
Like this one?

>>3374316
THIS IS WHAT THE LEMAN RUSS SHOULD LOOK LIKE

>>3374316

ZOMGS! SUSPENSION! HERESY!

>>3374316

Oh god, nothing like that, this was 7~ years ago, when the raider kit first came out, and I was young and just getting into more advanced conversions. Just sawed the turret ring off the russ, affixed it smoothly to the top, beefed up the turret, and did some other things to it. Would do something closer to that now though.

>>3374639

It's the big blue blob in the back row... I have since upgraded the pain job vastly since then... Don't ask, I was young and found a deal on ultramarine blue...

>>3374660
It'd be cooler if it was backwards. would look more Lemany
Strangely, that also fits the lemans themselves.

any updates on the land raider?

>>3375464
Not really
i added a hatch to the top but that aside I've yet to add anything worth showing