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Like the title says, do you enjoy converting or scrath-building models? I'm just curious.

And if this is in the wrong place, someone move it.

I love Converting. Makes my models look individual.

This should probably be in the painting/modeling section.

I clicked yes.
I really enjoy modding characters and one offs. Metal or plastic, it's all fun.
It's nice a little problem to solve. A few standout models and conversions or changes to stock/single pose miniatures can really make an army stand out.
The problem comes when I have to convert dozens of troop types because i don't like the stock poses or the options don't exist.
Then it becomes a bit of a chore.
I'm not a fan of GWs more recent, 'Yeah the model doesn't exist, build your own' campaign.
That's gonna get old quickly.

More than anything else in the hobby

Quite simply, I doubt anyone will say no. See last months White Dwarf's Standard Bearer (about the only time the words of Jervis stayed with me) fror reasons as to why people convert models.

For once, it's not a waste of paper!

Sometimes, every now and then I get it horribly wrong though and give up.

Arheiner wrote:Sometimes, every now and then I get it horribly wrong though and give up.

Ah, but that is part of the fun of perfecting your skills.

Converting is my favourite part of the hobby.

Pretty much the same as everyone else!

The first thing I do when I pick up a new kit or blister is look at ways I can swap out weapons and heads, right the way through to re-building entire parts of tanks and so on.

I will also horde left over parts or even buy things (not always traditional hooby stuff) to use for converting. One of my favorite things are the cogs and gubbinz you get inside desk top printers, they are great for beefing up engines

Yes!
Adding that personal touch make my models seem all that much better!

Yes, I love "orkyfying" other bits. I'm in the process to making a Tau Devilfish looted wagon, with tracks :-)

I hate painting with a passion, but converting is a lot of fun. A while ago I just finished a Guardsman in the process of reloading his lasgun; it's just nice to have a few "different" models in the army.

I kind of want to get some Ogre Bulls just so I can convert some Ogryn (which I'm not sure if I'll ever use).

I like converting ever so much more than painting.

As many have said it's my favorite thing. If I have to point to one article that got me into 40k it's an old one from the RT-era Compendium where the 'eavy Metal team shows off their plastic conversions. They point us to model kits, toys and other places for bitz to make custom models.

More than anything that's what hooked me.

My current Tallarn force is probably the least converted army I've done.

It what makes your army unique and yours. It can be anything from a simple way a model carries a weapon to the whole model itself being created from bits and pieces here and there.

Frustrating.....sometimes

Worth while......definitely

I'm a terrible modeler, so I don't really care to convert. That said, I'll do the odd weapon swap here and there. I guess I'm lucky in that the choice of army that I play really doesn't have anything in it that requires converting.

I love converting things. It's the whole reason I started my Lost & The Damned and Deathwatch armies.

I don't.

malfred wrote:I don't.

May I recomend you go to your nearest hospital, something is clearly wrong with you if you still consider yourself a hobbyist.

Easy there, everyone is entitled to an opinion. Whether you can taunt it or not is up to me.

I would say something, but it would get me banned.

like every man in my non ABOR army is modded, some just how they hold their bolters, some with missing plates of armour, and even a couple with whole bodyparts missing, in the case of my obj markers.

Currently working on a guy throwing a krak grenade, with half his helmet missing, and even bits of his skull.

should look awesome.

Definitely. It's absolutely my favorite part of the hobby, and I've got bitz order receipts from the Warstore.com to prove it.

Infact, my biggest annoyance is one piece metal models, usually because there will but some aspect of it I desperately want to use, but it can be a lot of work.

It is definitely the thing that has kept me in this hobby for as long as I've been in it and at it!

Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:

malfred wrote:I don't.

May I recomend you go to your nearest hospital, something is clearly wrong with you if you still consider yourself a hobbyist.

Glen Beck called. He wants his judgmental opinion back.

I enjoy painting and I enjoy gaming. I dislike assembly which means I also dislike conversion.

I think my most rewarding projects have all involved digging out an old model that I've lost some of the parts for and either scratch building replacement parts or finding reasonable replacements.

I'm at my happiest choping and cutting and fitting bitz together in an attempt to create somthing unique.
For me converting is my favorite part of the hobby.

I don't have any problem with conversions, My problem comes when you do something perfectly reasonable and then find out that the overly simplific rules "Improvement" have made the conversion obsolite, or remove the options so that your conversion just has a nice spot in your box somewhere.

I really don't enjoy converting.

It's just not my thing.

I love seeing a good conversion but I'm not good at it myself and I don't enjoy it at all. I've got terrible hand eye co-ordination.