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Converting Models To Save Money, courtesy of the herdstone| gjnoronh |
Posted: May 8 2006, 02:46 PM
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screwball  Group: Members Posts: 68 Member No.: 8 Joined: 19-July 05  |
From Lord Saradin
-------------- LordSaradain Posted: May 8 2006, 06:57 AM As we all know, money is (almost) always a problem for wargamers. Buying those expesive metal blisters will always ruin you, but without them your army is seriously lacking. Here are some examples and tips for how players can substitute metal models for cheaper plastic ones, as well as customizing your minis to make them more personal and cool. I've simply used plastic boxes that make one type of regiment, to make another instaed. Feel free to comment the sloppy painting etc, this thread is mostly to give people ideas about cool conversions. I'm not showing of my painting 'skills'(anyway, many of the pictures are abit bad, the colours are not correctly shown etc, but like I said, I want to show off the models, not the paintjob), I'm showing of my conversion SKILLS!! Hopefully, everyone who reads this thread will contribute with at least one idea that hasn't already been mentioned. I'd like to hear your tips too! Dark Riders: http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/224/darkriders14en.jpg http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/9781/darkriders21ps.jpg I bought the plastic wood elf glade rider models. Give them some Dark elf bits, paint them and there you go, plastic dark riders! Black Orcs: http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9226/blackorcs1ew.jpg http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4142/blackorcsback7ur.jpg I bought a box of 40k 'Ard Boyz and simply assembled them without guns and gave them sheilds and choppas and command. Quite easy and cool. Alternatively, if you are even cheaper, buy a box of normal orcs and assemble them and order some metal black orc heads for them. Spare bit mutants: http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6731/mutants4lm.jpg http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/4073/mutantsback1qc.jpg Title says it all! I just took some of my spare bitz and glued them together and víola! I'm using them as marauders. Nurgle spawn: http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/4259/beastofnurgle1fg.jpg http://img345.imageshack.us/img345/8754/be...rgleback4xh.jpg I took a snail toy and attatched some bitz to it. Black Knights: http://img431.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0029e3xd.jpg I took the bretonnia knight and gave them skelly heads and I also used alot of spare its from empire. Alternatively, you can use the empire knights or TK horsemen if you prefer them without barding. Chaos Knights: http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7113/tz...nknights6nl.jpg http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/5204/tzeentchknights4gt.jpg These are empire knights with chaos bits. The first regiment has got arms and heads from the old Chaos warriors, and the second regiment has got parts from the new Chaos warriors. Slaanesh and Nurgle Knights below! Made just like the tzeentch knights with some other spare bitz. Nurgle Knights: http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/5440/img00234bn.jpg http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/4021/img00247uc.jpg Slaanesh Knights: http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/5223/img00291kl.jpg Mounted Tzeentch Exalted: http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/2851/tzeentchexalted6we.jpg Made just like the Tzeentch Chaos knights. Nurgle warriors: http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/5084/warr...ofnurgle6qd.jpg http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/9909/wa...rgleback7zo.jpg I used the normal marauder models but gave them mutant and warrior heads, orc and chaos warrior arms and orc and marauder shoulderplates. Abit cheaper too. Nurgle Exalted: http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/899/championofnurgle3di.jpg Made just like the warriors. Nurgle Marauders: http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9949/mara...ofnurgle3dx.jpg http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/8202/mara...rgleback9yk.jpg I used zombies and gave them some marauders parts as well as alot of other things. Dont forget that maruders use the larger bases. DoW Heavy Cavalry http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/5707/dowheavycavalry0ep.jpg I made these from two spare bretonnian knights and 3 spare empire knights. Has anyone seen Kingdom of Heaven? I tried to paint them similarly to Balian's knights, right before the suicidal charge. Raised Skeletons: http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5327/ra...keletons5tj.jpg This is a classic. You can do the same thing with zombies. Simly glue som heads and arms to the base and your done. Nurglings: http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/4628/img00267fm.jpg http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/5476/img00251xc.jpg I used snotlings as you get more of them and the snotling models are alot cooler. I've remade my nurglings and put some cool dryad bitz on their bases. Greatswords: The comand is the original (metal) but the rest of the models are just plastic militia. Added some soldier and knight arms as wll as some greenstuff armour. http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/353/greatswords16yn.jpg http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8658/greatswords26qe.jpg http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9774/greatswords33qh.jpg http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/300/greatswords48ls.jpg http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/2729/greatswords52is.jpg Daemonettes: http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2277/da...tesside21vn.jpg http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/1870/daemonettes2qg.jpg http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/7669/da...tesside16zl.jpg http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/5663/da...ttesback3ny.jpg http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/2549/img01251ge.jpg http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/1056/img01271jl.jpg http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9717/img01289st.jpg http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/7789/img01291dm.jpg http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/5043/img01269rg.jpg http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/9941/img01303nb.jpg Made from plastic dryads. Se thread here: http://www.druchii.net/viewtopic.php?t=42189 I had planned on getting some khorngors but they are so d*mn expensive so I decided to convert some gors into khorngors. I took some of the old plastic chaos warrior greatweapons and gave them to my gors and then painted them appropriatly: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7899/bild0244di.jpg http://img318.imageshack.us/img318/1037/bild0232sk.jpg http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8751/khorngors33uc.jpg |
 
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