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Here's the first of many projects I hope to post.

I made this deff dread for my oldest son's birthday. O started with a Black Reach SM dreadnought.








I love the oil effect on the engine. It's just a little Tamaya Smoke dabbed on.




The arms are detachable so he can reconfigure it or only run it with two arms for a Killa Kan, allthough you can see it's a an ork inside and not a grot.











This buzz saw arm took HOURS to build, but I think it's my favorite part of the whole conversion.

Thats... That's killy as all hell. I love it!

I hope your son appreciates it as much as I do. I hope to see more great work.

What a creative piece of work! The detail and paint job ties the whole thing together perfectly!

Nice one Bob.

That is awesome! Great work, Bob. I love the tri-linked assault cannons!

Here's something else I just finished up. I didn't do much converting; these were mostly done to test out the color scheme which I'm keeping. I'll make the next ones more nurgley.




As always magnetized arms so I can reconfigure. I almost never play so I didn't put much thought into what the weapons the squad would have.
















I'm not very happy with how the water turned out. If anyone has a product and or process they really like I'd love to hear about it.

You're not happy with it?
I think these swamp bases are pure win!

Looks great! Maybe a bit of brown mixed with the green of the water?

whalemusic360 wrote:Looks great! Maybe a bit of brown mixed with the green of the water?

I agree. I added just a touch of red to the mix, it looked murkier before it set up. I'm thinking about putting a light coat of ard coat with a little brown swirled in on the top and sides.

Not sure on if it would fit what your going for, but maybe a few flecks of crushed up dead leaf. Or oregano Would give it some floating detritus throughout the mix.

The dread and termis are very nice btw.

whalemusic360 wrote:Not sure on if it would fit what your going for, but maybe a few flecks of crushed up dead leaf. Or oregano Would give it some floating detritus throughout the mix.

The dread and termis are very nice btw.

You're like a mind reader. I was planning on adding a single leaf floating on the surface of the water on the last base pictured and maybe doing a multi layered pour next time with some leaves floating in the water.

Lol. any other good ideas I should have that you already have?

I took some of whalemusic360's suggestions and added some ard coat with brown swirls to the top and a couple of leaves floating on the surface. I like it better. CC welcome.

I like it, looks more sickly and desolate. Looks a bit like lime jello in to first ones.

Looks much better now.

Although I would put some wildlife into the water next time, make it even more grimdark.

The termis look really good, I liked the water effect before, but after is even better andalso the rust effect is really nice.

First obliterator
I want to make some obliterators. I hate the GW models for them. I built this "tank" bottom tonight. There's still a lot of detailing to go and I don't really know where I'm headed with it.





I might do something like this, but I'm not sure yet.




I'm thinking of a havoc missile launcher/spider for the next one.

I was not happy with the "tank" portion of the obliterator. I worked on it a bit more, but scrapped it in the end and made a bigger one. Maybe too big. Not sure if I'm going to scrap this tank as well. I haven't figured out exaclty where the torso is going to fit yet. I'm just getting started on the second obliterator. I'm going to add some arm to the sides, just not sure what arm yet and an underslung head like a biovore.







I've just finished building my first Khorne berserker beastman terminator. I'm almost done painting a squad of power armor Khorne berserker beastman. I'm making a same armie in this theme.





Here are the first two of the khorne beastman inspired possessed. One doesn't have a beasman face; I'm thinking of scrapping that head and making a similar one with a beastman head. Not sure I'm all that happy with how it turned out at all. He also needs an arm. I think the other one is ready for paint.

I really prefer the Khorne Deamon head to the beastman head. It just looks... Wrong, you know?

I am constantly amazed by your work Bob! Not only are your models full of incredible conversions, your painting skill is excellent.

Great work!

Cain

The beastman head on that terminator doesn;t really turn my crank but the possessed conversions are wicked sauce!

Keep up the creative work man! *subscribed*

Thanks, everyone. I really appreciate the compliments and constructive criticism. The theme of the army (except the obliterators) is khorne-beastmen CSM, so I'm guessing when its done folk will love it or hate it. Hence the possessed using bloodletter parts and all the beastmen heads. The initial concept was to come up with something that will take a lot of converting to practice my skills. I don't play so the effectiveness of the configurations is of little concern, but I do make sure everything is legal. The first squad is almost fully painted, I'll have to post some pics soon.

lovely looking mini's mate,the water effects are top drawer.

I am lovin the beast-terminator, looks perfect.

Here are the original members of the army - Khorne berserker beastmen. They are the only completed members of the army so far, though I still need to figure out how I want to do the eyes; I'm thinking yellow with a black pupil. I have four more that have been converted, but not fully painted. I hope to have rest of the squad painted soon.

As of now I'm planning on the army having squads of Khorne Berserkers (w/ rhino), possessed and terminators, and a demon prince; all with the a khorne beastman theme. My original plan for the demon price was to use a monitor as a base, but I don't like the news very much. I still might go that route and redo the parts I hate most like the lower legs; I have no idea what is going on with the muscles in the monitors shins.

The first three. I've very happy with how the SM voodoo doll came out. It's doesn't fit the khorne theme very well, but it works with the the beastman theme.







The next three: The two on the side were the prototypes. The on in the middle I think is my favorite member of the squad so far; not sure exactly why, he just seems to work.






Another contender for favorite. He's the only one with a non-CC weapon so far. I love the look of the old powerfist; its from a really old set of space marines back when they are all beakies. Since they are berserkers I decided not to show any firearms on any of them unless it was an upgrade. This guy breaks the rule with the old fashioned pistol (I think its from the kroot), but I really like how it looks. I don't think the rest of the squad having two CC weapons breaks the WYSIWYG rules since berserkers come a CC weapon and a bolt pistol (which counts as an extra CC weapon).

cant even tell you how badass those are

Oblit #2 is comming along nicely (sorry about the focus on the head). I'm looking for input on the arms. At first I was thinking of using terminator arms and adding green stuff to make it look like an organic arm with struts and joints sticking through, but I think they will be to big. Another option is no arms and stick some plates or something there. I'm leaning towards very skinny mechanical arms with engergy weapons at the ends like flamers or meltas. Opintions? other ideas?

Obliterator #2 is ready for paint. The claw arm took a several revisions, but I'm happy with the result.





This one, I'm not so happy with. The tracks are too big. I think I'm goning to start the tank portion over again with smaller tracks. The hull may be about the same. Not sure about that yet. We'll seew were the tracks lead.

Possessed #3 done and ready to paint.




Three built. I just need to be inspired for the next two so I can get up to minimum squad size. I'm thinking of a blood letter emerging from the mouth of a CSM.

This thread is full of awesome concepts. Subscribed without hesitation.