Here's the pink boy!

That’s one ugly Pigogre! Well done! I really like the pinkish flesh tone you’ve got just like a real piggy!

All hail the Pig King!

Appreciate the WIP shots. Madness.

Beats any ham-fisted approach I could ever do . Sorry the pun was in my head and it had to go somewhere.

Excellent work .

A prime motivating factor of making this army is as an outlet for swine related puns.

I don't much care for pigs, but I have to say these are excellently done!

King Pig is excellent! Seamless conversion and great painting.

So crisp conversions and great skins and yellow. Just took a skimmer through your log - very nice stuff. That Termite <3 And also the dread, and the pigs :d

Trucking along with my piggy boys. This guy was a blast to pick out bits for.
Base is original metal Butcher with grafted on plastic ogre arms, head is greenstuffed ogre bellower head, and the kiddie-sack (hobbits?) is from the gargant/giant kit.

Nice haul of kiddos he’s got for cooking up! Really great conversions your producing for these piggies, whatever will you smash out next?

Pigogres look very tasty. Mechs are fine, too.

Pig Knights on the warpath!

You sir are insane. In the best way possible .

Not only would I not have considered doing this, I wouldn’t have pulled it off. Great style and skill.

Finished the last four Mechs from the Battletech starter box! Having a blast playing this game over beer and pretzels. My friend got some awesome 3d printed city terrain and we've been playing a 5 person merc campaign. All of us are almost bankrupt.


Battlemaster (died from an SRM ammo explosion. Will be a long time before I can buy another.)


Thunderbolt (solid workhorse brawler. It's slabs of armour and jumpjets have served me well.)


Shadowhawk (yet to be fielded, though I'm not expecting great things. Inferior in pretty much all ways to the Wolverine.)


Locust (Cheap as chips and annoying enough to be useful, unlike it's garbage starterbox counterpart, the Commando)


For posterity, the rest of my stable.

Finished up 3 more Gluttons and a test Leadbelcher for my Hogors.

Yes! Forth the Porkgre Kingdoms.

One of my favorite blogs, FYI. The Hogors are the bee's knees (I think the antlered knights are the best). Such a simple yet hugely characterful creation.

The Hogors are so well executed, but man, that is a more than disturbing sight

Wow, those Hogors are one of the best things I've seen in a while! And a great name to boot! Your sculpting skills are amazing, and the painting matches it. Loving that banner with the painted on stitches.

Brilliant progress on the piggos, happy to see you're still crushing along with these lads

I never knew I needed giant pigmen in my life until now! These are sooooo good.

Thanks guys!
Here's some more progress: Enter the (sand)witch hunter and his retinue!

the sandwitch Hunter is amazing! Did the piglets start life as Gretchin? Nice touch with the pork trap too

Really cool idea, and you do a great job at executing those pig-ogres!!

Holy each update is somehow better than the last one. Criminy.

This guy is just so completely perfect - the piglets, the hog-hound, the smug smirk on his fat mug... Just awesome.

Thanks guys! Hrothgorn's crew was a nice break from churning through my Glutton squad.

Did the piglets start life as Gretchin?

They're just the stock gnoblars that come in the Underworlds warband, but I greenstuffed little piggy noses onto them.

I've got a real Goofy/Pluto situation going with the pig-dog, but I figured making everything porcine was really the only right way to go with this army.
I spent a lot of time trying to find the perfect head to use for the hunter, but then I remembered I had an ork painboy from a starterbox collecting dust in my closet.
I think he's kinda silly looking as an ork, but he made a pretty good pig!

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I've got a real Goofy/Pluto situation going with the pig-dog, but I figured making everything porcine was really the only right way to go with this army.

I didn't even question it on first pass. It is the way.

I spent a lot of time trying to find the perfect head to use for the hunter, but then I remembered I had an ork painboy from a starterbox collecting dust in my closet.
I think he's kinda silly looking as an ork, but he made a pretty good pig!

Wooooow I assumed you just sculpted that face over the stock ogre, but now I can totally see it in the cheekbones. Smart bitzing.

More pigs for the grist mill! Doing these as small batches is good for my sanity because there's just so much surface area to paint.

Dude! So much character in all these faces, I can hardly even. Are they all based on orc heads? Once you gave that away I find myself squinting at all the piggie heads and wondering.

Oh! I've been spending too much time in Puppetswar's site, and thought of you when I saw these slapped on an ork body: https://puppetswar.eu/pig-hybrid-heads.html

Thanks! Trying to give each one a unique character has been the most fun with this project.

They're all orc heads (I'm not a good or patient enough sculptor to pull off heads from scratch) from 40k orks, black orcs/'ardboys and spellcrow keffiyah orcs for the hooded ones (they're especially muppety.)
When I first started, I was also looking at those puppetwar heads and also manic pig heads, but decided against them to give myself a bit of practice with greenstuff.

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More pigs for the grist mill! Doing these as small batches is good for my sanity because there's just so much surface area to paint.

Three more quarantine Hogors done, including my Glutton and Leadbelcher champions. Only three more gluttons left in this seemingly endless block of pork!

Finished the last pigs of my 12 pig Glutton slab! Now to move on to bigger and meatier ham hocks!

Brilliant wall of pork, Gibs Lots to love in that squad, between the little details, bright patterns and piggy wall of brutality.

I may have just squealed when i saw an update. I am not disappointed in seeing more piggys joining the (had to look up the term for group of pigs.....which depends on their age, so) drove/litter/sounder or passel of hogs. More useless trivia from the mind of Theo.

She took a while, but I finished my Hogor Warqueen (counting as Frostlord on Stonehorn)!
I've always really loved the character in the Great Unclean One kit, but I never really had a reason to get one as I don't play anything Nurgle related. Conversely, I've never really gelled with the "Ogres on Mammoths" aesthetic of the Beastrider kits, so the problem here solved itself!
Lot of greenstuff work sculpting the nose/ears/lips, giving her a proper regal bosom, and doing massive ammounts of skin repair. The crown was 3D printed, as was the contents of her wine-goblet.



A loving marriage.


Better video: https://imgur.com/fZFFuHp

And all the little piggies I've painter over the last couple months!

She's IMMENSE! What a build and what a beast. Brilliant centerpiece to the hogs. I'm not 100% on the Jurassic Park-style waves in her cup - I probably would have gone for more of a slosh or froth than the concentric circles - but that's an awfully small niggle

Army shot is a grand thing, congrats on the herd!

That’s immense McGibs! She’s truly a sight to behold. The whole pack of hogs is looking magnificent and totally unique! Are you stopping there or will the hog roast continue?

That is one disgusting model... but in a good way Army shot looks great!

Wow, what a centrepiece for such a unique army!

That is just epic!!! Hogtastic!

Thanks guys!

I'm not 100% on the Jurassic Park-style waves in her cup

Yeah, my partner pointed out the exact same thing :p
It's a 3d printed part from a cauldron I had lying around that fit the cup, but I agree... looking at it finished it does look a bit odd and "static", rather than sloshing around wine.

Are you stopping there or will the hog roast continue?

I've got the main block of infantry and heroes done, but I've still got a bunch more on my workbench! Next up is probobly some mournfang riders, gnoblars, and my mawpot.

Some additional in-progress photos:

Pre any additions, just figuring out the accessories.


Greenstuffed (and greyscaled so you cant see :p) There was a LOT of filling in open wounds and sores. The GUO is really gross you guys...


And primed. The bra straps I did with synthetic twine and was probobly the hardest part of the conversion, involving a mix of knot tying and superglue.


and someone on another forum asked about my skin-painting process, so I threw this together.

I've had this army in the works for about two years now, but I'm finally starting to get highlighted models done! I wanted to do an army that was clean and practical, making use of a lot of decal transfers and edge highlighting, which was something I've never really tackled before.
The helmets are from https://bombshellminis.com/36018-helmet-set-r8/ and consist of a clear plastic dome and pewter collar (I didn't want to paint faces, so I sprayed them with gloss black). Conversion was pretty easy, just removing part of the marine's collar. On some of the pushfit models with pre-attached shoulderpads, I had to trim the piping on the pewter collar down to fit, but its not very noticeable on the final thing.

Lore wise, I liked the idea of having an Ad Mech controlled Marine force where they function essentially as Marine Skittarii. They were orginially escorts for an Explorator Fleet, but have since been hijacked, mindwiped, and cloned by the Fleet Magos. The modified helmets are (on paper) to provide extra protection in hazardous environments, but really because the marine's heads have been horribly augmented with cybernetic shackles that they simply don't fit in Mk X helmets anymore.
Rules wise, I run them as Deathwatch to reflect their fleet's wealth of technology gizmos and total lack of regard for codex organization.

Intercessor Squad




Hellblaster



Aggressor:
I'm not a fan of the big bullet mittens, so I replaced his arms with Tartaros Terminator arms.



And bonus tagalong, my Ordo Xenos Inquisitor, who's sanctioning the whole Explorator Fleet.
The model is a Necromunda Van Saar with a Palanite Enforcer revolver.


He's very smol next to his bodyguards.

Another great idea which you have beautifully brought to plastic life. Love the ultra glossy black helmets on the models. Nice back story as well.

Them’s some highly polished helmets! Neat idea and unsurprisingly well executed McGibs. I like the use of the Tartaros arms, they fit really well

This is such a brilliant sci-fi super soldier explorator crew, thrilled to see you do more of them. The inquisitor is a perfect counterpoint, love the red suit

Amazing! That glossy black facelessness makes them quite scary.

Wow, those Space Marines really look scary, nice and simple conversion. And great idea with the Aggressor conversion, I still have three on sprue and some terminator bits left over, may steal your idea.

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I've got the main block of infantry and heroes done, but I've still got a bunch more on my workbench! Next up is probobly some mournfang riders, gnoblars, and my mawpot.

I like everything from this blog, but the pigs are my absolute favorites! Very creative, very unique and very inspiring.
Looking forward to see new additions!

Finished another Fortis Killteam. Not much different about them, except the sergeant has a stun-baton because power-swords aren't tecnho enough.


Also finished one of six Cyberbikes! I don't want any squatmarines in this army, so I'm having to come up with convincing alternatives.

As always, these are sheet genius. The bike is perfect.

Great Cyyberbike! The "arms" in the riders cockpit are great!

Love the friendly lil' cyberbike, can see him zooming around chunking out fancy ammo while securing all the things. Fortis team is baller as ever, +1 to shock prod.

Bike conversion is ace, brilliant idea and execution!

Amazing conversions all round dude! Those pig ogres are terrifying. I'm trying to imagine the sounds they'd make as they trundle towards another army

Small update: still chewing away at my hordes of intercessors. Got five more riflemen completed, and an officer (captain or lieutenant depending on the list).

More awesome Marines, the Officer looks cool with the change in armour colour. He still is clearly related to the others, neat work

The officer's armour color is amazing, may I inquire which colors you used?

Thanks guys!
The bluegreen is Vellejo Air 71.008 "Blue" highlighted with a mix of Screaming Skull. The darker green on his shoulders and gun (and the armour for the regular marines) is Incubi Darkness highlighted with Thunderhawk Blue and Blue Horror

I've got some Phobos marines (probobly make them Incursors) waiting for some paint. I might try a black scheme for sneaky boys.

Another brilliant batch of big faceless space dudes Excited for the sneaky space dudes!

We all know the new Invader ATV looks like a dumb GI Joe Mario cart. Statwise, it's also clearly just two Outrider bikes glued together.

Soooo.... I went and glued two outrider bikes together to make my own.

That is cute! And melty!

Very nice use of bits

Finished up my Bladeguard Lieutenant. I've got 5 more just like him for an actual Bladeguard squad.



And I re-jiggered my old flexo-arm dreads with some nice 3d printed arms and gun to be a bit closer to the "big robot marine" goal I was originally going for.. This fellow will be a contemptor with multimelta.

Holy crap where have I been, your stuff is great! Love love love that blade guard lieutenant!

Wow - these are great additions. The retro-future vibe on the dread is PERFECT.

Another fantastic update! The spaceman helmets fit the vibe perfectly. The Contemptor Big Robot Marine is great, with the 3D printed bits fitting in very nicely indeed

Awesome update, that Lt is great but the contemptor steals the show! Took me a moment to work out the 3D bits from the rest of the kit.

Big fan of this army - Marines always seemed to have this 'hard sci-fi' potential (even more so with Primaris) and you're really coaxing this out with the conversion and paint scheme. More, please

I love the face on the big robot marine, looks like sunglasses and tiny mouth on a big bald head .

He sure has tiny feet though

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He sure has tiny feet though

The word is dainty

Brilliant stuff McGibs, always thrilled to see an update from you.

Masterly done, great conversions (again) and real subtle weathering. Is the shield from the new Necromunda Enforcers?

Thanks guys!
Yeah, the Lt shield is from Necromunda Subjugators box, which is a great kit. I might still use the bodies for firstblood marines if i feel the urge.

Why settle for the clumsy meat-fingered Apothecaries when you can have the surgical precision of... THE DOCTOPUS!

That is fantastic!

THE DOCTOPUS is amazing! Great work.

Fantastic details, metallics, and weathering!

I love it!

Finished up a squad of Recon Marines to use as Incursors or Infiltrators. Was nice to change up the colour scheme a little bit and the phobos armour in genuinely cool.




Here's a comparison between the grey recon and the standard line infantry. It's subtle, but I think it goes a long way to differentiating the two.

It's funny how much a change in helmet makes the 'feel' of the model better.

Ok, name and execution of the Doctopus are genius, what an amazing model! And cool kitbash of the Phobos units, the change in color is really subtle, but works well.

Subtle change, but it really does work quite well!

Absolutely love what those helmets do for your marines!

Finished up my Command Bike (Chaplain on bike). Pretty simple conversion, as I think the outrider models are pretty cool to begin with. I found some tau bit that made a cool curved front cowling (I think from a ghostkeel?) and added some buttons and doodads to the dashboard to make it a little more... commandy.

That looks great!

This blog just keeps getting better! The outrider is a really cool addition and that cowling works fantastically well. How big is the force now?

Time to plant the seeds of a new army!
I've wanted to do Tyranids for a while as a nice change of pace from my clean-lined marines and techno-demonic chaos. My painting goals are to make heavy use of contrast paints, drybrushing, and glazing for some nice organic gradients.
Model wise, I've always like nids, but there's been some goofy design elements that never really clicked with me. Namely the bio "guns" and goofy dinosaur heads. My conversion goals for this army is totry and go more bestial and alien, more "cosmic horror" type look. More squid faces, eyeless worm mouths, spines, bee-hives, feathers, veins, all that good stuff. At the end of the day, they should still look like the gribbly space bug-dinosaurs that the core Tyranids idea hits so well.

I decided to do up a Genestealer for my first test model. I think stock genestealers are pretty goofy looking and have a lot of room to get scarier. First to change was the head, which I chopped the face off of and greenstuffed an upsidedown Pink Horror onto to to get something truly horrific. The limbs were the next conversion, as I think Tyranids have a bit of an "akimbo" issue with all their multiple arms. The models can get really jumbled because of the limbs, so I think reposing them will be one of my main conversion opportunities with this army. Scything Talons are perfect for folding down compact like bird wings, and tucking them up close to the nid's body looks much more naturalistic and also helps keep the model's silhouette readable. The Rending Claws I decided to elongate with an extra joint, making them more into gangly ape arms. There's been a couple genestealer art pieces where they look like freaky monster monkeys, loping along and climbing on things which I think is a perfect aesthetic to lean into.
Painting wise I wanted something fleshy and familiar, to contrast with the more alien features. Something like an earthworm .

Dammit Gibs, you've done it again, brewed up another brilliant army concept that takes a GW thing and asks, but what if cooler and more sci-fi? Super excited to see this swarm grow and how you fix the foibles of the Nid line

Also that bike chaplain is dummy good. I don't love that it doesn't have a clear combat weapon - the bike chappy is a real hammer in most armies - but I'm content to say the servo-arm mounts some extreme cutting laser or something

I tried holstering various melee weapons to the chappy, bit they all ended looking too bulky. In the end, I was content that the bike was hammer enough. :p

Great concept on the genestealer, I can’t wait to see what else you come up with for it!

Thanks guys! Onto the next test model!
Painted up a Tyranid Warrior. I might play around with the spine colours a bit, try out some neon greens or pinks, but I'm pretty chuffed with this little squid-porcupine-raptor!

Very cool. Recognizably Tyranids but while GW seems to still be working out how to move away from Giger while somehow re-appropriating whatever StarCraft Zerg appropriated from earlier GW Tyranids, your conversions bring them back into a much bigger Sci Fi imaginary tradition. Looking forward to where you'll be going with these!

Ok, that is a bloody awesome Genestealer.

Spines + tentacle face = something completely alien and unique. Very scary!

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Love him <3 The added gribble factor (tm) but also the sense of motion. I've always dug Tyranid warriors but damn are they super static minis - and always have been, from back in the bucktooth 2E days The dynamism is really welcome (goes for the genestealer's vaulting pose as well).

EDIT: Cute tail stripes as well

As ever, great mods McGibs. The colours work well to complement the tweaks too

I made some dogs with bees in their mouths, so when they bark they shoot bees at you.

Another brilliant solution to an awkward Nid amalgam. Love the colors, including the purple streaks

Why have a face when all you need is gun?

Serious love all of your work McGibs!

Yup, that's brilliant. I can't wait to see what you come up with next!

Seems like your Nids have evolved to be even more efficient! Great work as per usual

Great, new stuff for nightmares Cool conversion and perfectly executed paintjob!

I finished up my Land-Speeder conversion to add some zippy firepower to my Marines. Speeders are cool, but I've never been a fan of the exposed crews and went poking around the internet for some conversion inspiration. I came across this fantastic one modeled after the Diamonback from Starcraft II by fellow Dakkanought Flinty, and I basically just copied it whole hog. The little hover feet make it look a lot more agile than just the "flying shoe" silhouette.





This is probably the most involved plasticard build I've done, and required a lot of measuring out weird angles on the computer, printing out a template, and cutting it from there. The joins are a little squadgy in places, but overall I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Sleek. Good retro-futuristic vibes instead of the usual gothic.

I like your addition of the ridge running down the center, good silhouette. And you're 100% right about the feet, it makes it look so much more maneouverable.

Because GW did my poor Repulsor Executioner dirty, I decided to make a swap-out turret so I can also use it as a regular Repulsor.
I consolidated the weapons a bit into "bullets/ missiles/lasers", because frankly, no one can remember them all anyways.

Getting some characters off my painting desk.
Librarian giving the ol' lightning fingers!




And a slightly converted Mr. Handy (from Brother Vinni's miniatures) to stand in for a Primaris Techmarine

I love the bulb over the librarian, it really suits the genre!

excellent conversations, love those domed helmets

Love the Librarian, super evocative. I'm also reminded of the Astartes animation with the hoses and mask and spooky orb of warp magicks

And props on another support robot, great concept for these lesser heroes. Delicious af floating tank as well!

Thanks guys!
The astartes psyker brought me great joy when I saw his simmilar mirrored black helmet. I wish I could somehow pull off some glowing-skull effect from inside the helmet. Maybe flip a switch when I fail a Perils of the Warp?

I got through my five man Blade(taser?)Guard squad. Obviously the blinged out stock versions weren't going to fit with my army's clean sci-fi theme, so I went for a pretty straightforward "breaching team" look instead. The shields are from the Necromunda Subjugator kit and worked out perfectly.

Big Daddy Dread ready for stompin!
The Redemptor kit is pretty great, I just replaced the sarcophagus with a Kharadron dome that happened to also perfectly fit one of the larger bombshell Mini's bubble helmets. Other minor changes were to swap out the teeny-tiny icarus rocket pod with something a little chunkier, and integrate the small gatling gun into the palm of the fist. Really happy with how this one came together!

Great eye on that dome (inside a dome) Superb fit, design and kitbash-wise. Rocket pod replacement is much appreciated, and the integrated baby minigun is a smart touch, nice nod to the contemptor guns-in-fists.

EDIT: Taser guard are of course legit as well. Even just the shield swap and lack of googas is a big enhancement over the standard.

That's an awesome Big Daddy dread! The dome eye makes it feel like some kind of huge weaponized surveillance apparatus, which makes it even a bit scarier ^^

This dreadnought was one of the first models I converted for my army, but I had him go through a bit of an upgrade. New gun, some backpack vents, and extended torso to make him contemptor sized (he used to be a chaplain dread)




And I also did up a unit of Servitors, which are the guys that win games of 9th edition. These were just some fun robots I had kicking around and wanted to paint forever. The Fallout Securitron and Brainbot are from Brother Vinni's minis (possible out of print now), and the two floaty bots are from Bombshell minis.

Now those tube arms are some proper Forbidden Planet stuff, great work.

Robby! the most famous robot actor!

Love the mismatched servitor team, all set to bicker amongst themselves while they get into game-winning hijinks somewhere on an objective

Taking a bit of a halloween break with some battetech mechs!

Nice Atlas!

Painting some more 3d printed mechs! A Crab and a Hunchback.

Hunchback's my personal favorite mech, with Crab making a play for number two Great detailing (transfer?) down the autocannon ... but really it's all about that Atlas skull. Massive skull face on a towering kill machine is a vibe for sure.

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Painting some more 3d printed mechs! A Crab and a Hunchback.

Finished painting the Blackpowder's Buckaneer's Underworld's set and had a blast with em. The parrot was especially fun to paint, and it's not often I get to do something so vibrant.
Gave the pirate captain a proper hat made from greenstuff and some lizardmen feathers, and also modified his sword into a proper cutlass. I also added a buttstock onto his gun because it looked pretty front-heavy.







turnaround video in the 'gram
https://www.instagram.com/p/CahvWmyOQID/

Great looking crew, even without the piratical and porcine conversions you've added Loving the little gnoblars as well (the stripes!) and I'mma shout out that knife-monkey on principle.

That’s awesome, the feathers on the Parrot are magnificent… not to mention the great conversions and the knife monkey

Hey all!
I'm falling down a bit of a Horus Heresy pit and decided to start up a Word Bearer's force. I wanted to try something a little different than the standard "another red marine legion" colourscheme, so opted to bring in more of their original legion grey. These were a lot of fun to try and make each legionary unique with different coloured plates and decals.
I used the Age of Darkness mk6 marines, and some 3d printed mk3 and mk4 legs to match the new scale a bit closer (the mk4 lads are particularly chonky). I also used printed paper scripture to add some word-bearer-bling, because the idea of freehanding tiny text would drive me crazy.
Let me know what you think, and I hope to keep going with more historical marines!

I've wondered what you've been up to

Cool high-effort take on the Word Bearers, bit of a crusade / warband feel with all the different armors and personal heraldry. Shout-out to the great molten power weapons too, I was just looking into doing that myself and chickened out

These power weapons are ACE!

What did you do? Actually set them on fire for the photo?

Fantastic looking bunch of zealots! I love the texture you’ve got on their grey armour plates, how did you achieve it?

So much win in this thread! I especially like the ATV and Landspeeder conversions. Do you have a parts list by any chance?