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Hello all. I'm new to dakka, long time lurker, first time contributer. This army project has something of a staggered start. A while ago, I decided I simply had to have some of the forgeworld renegades. I didn't think about actually creating an army of any kind with them, they were just too awesome to not have. When I recieved them, my interest had already shifted to other things (yes, thats how quickly I lose interest in things) so the bits sat collecting dust for a few months. Then one day I discovered Dave Taylors blood pact. I noticed two things: they were composed of pure mansauce and awesome, and that they used the forgeworld renegades. This could work, I thought. I would make some sort of renegade guard army. However, I remembered the savlar. They've long been one of my alltime favourite pieces of canon. Full savlar army projects are few and far between, and thus my new army project had begun. I had all sorts of ideas for conversions in making these scum, and I finally had an excuse to use my renegade bits! With some minor modifications, they would be perfect, and their rebreather tanks could represent the bulky chem inhalers the savlar are famous for.
Anyway, enough of my blathering, heres some pics.
These first guys are examples of using forgeworld torsos, the second lot are some of the converted troops. I'm confident that having a mix of these two types throughout squads will give a nice disorganised feel. (They do steal most of their gear anyway)
The chem inhalers are made using styrene tube and rods, with added details (Dave Taylor's guide)

I saw this conversion done somewhere and I had to give it a go, making an RPG out of heavy weapon team bits

Comments and critiques welcome
[EDIT] Sorry, minor balls up with the pictures. All good now.

The pictures. They are broken.
They probably look pretty good though...
I like the 4th one especially.
Keep up the good work.

Pics aren't working

pics work for me, try puting them to the gallery and post them here...

any ways i like the look you pulled there man!

Having seen the pictures i really like the missile team...

I really like those converted guys.., can you do a tutorial on how you made those?

keep it up

The converted guys are made like this:
1. start with cadian legs. I added the occaisional armour plates with plasticard.
2. its easier to convert the torso not glued to the body so keep it seperate.
3. First thing is to alter the armour on the cadian torso if you want variety. I usually shave and file bits off, and occaisionally use green stuff. You can see filed down chest armour on the guy in the middle of those three.
4. Next bit is the backpacks. As I said above, the idea for these came from Dave Taylor, they are simple to make. Glue a piece of plastic rod into the plastic tube, the best size is 4.0 mm tube and any plastic rod that fits into it. Another piece of rod is glued underneath, the details can be made as you see fit, I just used bits of plasticard and various plasic bits. Trim down the little raised bit on the back of the torso to glue the backpack on.
5. The heads I made in a variety of ways. The simplest way is to use tactical space marine respirator heads, though any similar head will do. The other method is to get as many plain heads as you can (I used flagellants and the ones from the cadian command squad). Then use the respirators from the cadian command and glue them on the face. Or just use thin plasticard to make the respirators yourself. The tubes and pipes are just guitar string.

6. Lastly the arms are just a mixture of forgeworld renegades and cadians.

To get all the head bits and respirators I recommend thewarstore.com or thecombatcompany.com. They sell individual bits and this saves buttloads from buying kits for the few bits you need.

A bit long winded but I hope that explains it enough!

Like the pics. Really like the RPG. Nice job with the breathers as well. Keep up the good work

Excellent, stuff....you've done exactly what I planned on doing with FW Renegades. I'm really looking forward to seeing how your project pans out and seeing some paint will be great too.

I will be stealing the missile launcher idea....its great.

Peter

Well I would have an update but I have one small problem. I am a bit stuck for a colour scheme.
I was thinking maybe something like a dull orange or orangey brown for the fatigues and a dark maybe rusty metal colour for armour plates.
The chem inhaler tanks will likely be a dirty chipped yellow. These are just ideas, I dont know what colour I'm going to do the hoods on the renegade torsos, or the weapons.
Any ideas and suggestions are welcome.

Thanks for the tut! now i have a way of making my Necromunda gang realy awsome!

Your thread is of to a great start!

*A LURKER EMERGES*

These look amazing so far! Love the armour variation and I'm a big fan of the packs. I think this might help you out - I'm trying to spread word out about it! Really invaluable to sort out complimentary colours and the like for designing my colour schemes. You might know colour theory already, but hope it helps

Nice going so far! Check out this thread for inspiration: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/288926.page

Looking really good! I am wacthing this.

Not sure about the first ones, they look too chaos-y. The others look great though!

Great start!

I'm particularly impressed with the metaltube lasgun. Great design.

Nice work. The rpg team looks great, as do the rebreathers.

Cool although surely Chem Dog and Uniform is a contradiction in terms. Their armour and gear should be a half dozen different schemes based on other regiments in the warzone.

Scarper - Thanks mate that will be a great help! I'm a bit rusty on colour theory
CadianXV - Thanks! Some nice ideas there
Imperial Monkey - I'm inclined to agree. I may have to do a bit of work on them. Thanks for the reply
migsula - Its actually a forgeworld piece I accidently broke while scrubbing. I had to rebuild the barrel. Stupid super-fragile resin!

I should have some painting pics soon. Thanks for all the kind words!

..... wating for more.....

First painting pictures. These are very preliminary, just basecoats, I was mainly playing around with the chem inhaler tank. I was originally going to paint it as chipped yellow, but I am rather taken by the bare metal look.




What do you think? Should I just leave the backpack as is? Also do you think the brown looks alright (keep in mind its only a basecoat)

They look great, love the use of the autoguns.

love that rpg launcher, how did you make it?

the paint scheme looks pretty good from this stage,mabe try some rust on the back pack?

Keep it up! oyur off to a great start!

I like the colour scheme, looks good. As you said it is just the base coats but I'd suggest darkening it all down. Eg the metal: Maybe a watered down 50/50 chaos black/badab black wash, highlight with base coat. Then using a very watered down, perhaps beastal, brown make the joints/recesses look greasy/dirty.

Peter

Sageheart - the rpg tube is made from the missile in the cadian heavy weapon set. The rpg round is made from the missile tip glued to the back half of a mortar shell, with the fins cut off. The exhaust end is made from the front tip of the mortar shell. The sight bits on top are made from plasticard.

First troop done. I promise the rest won't take this long, most of the time spent on this guy was just deciding on colours and techniques. The rest should come along quicker now.





Feedback welcome as always

Looking good dude! love the brown fatigues and the modelling! I had a small idea that may look o.k? on the metal parts you have now have you considered perhaps using some masking fluid sponged on and then painting black and yellow hazard stripes and then peeling off the mask and weathering and adding rust effect? would look great with the feel of the models, chemicals and toxic lands, and thrown together armor! can't wait to see more of your work, i've subscribed! :-)

Stuff's looking great. I like the paint sheme.

Consider me subscribed.

Looking good, I haven't seen anyone make the Chem Dogs as accurately as you have, will keep an eye on this