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**H.B.M.C.**

Hyenajoe wrote:Here's my contribution: Ulysseus Lotos, Heretek and Magos of the Dark Mechanicus

That's my fav so far.

Where is the axe from?

**Tortured-Robot**

Some really fantastic work here, shame they didnt have an orc

**RiTides**

Wow, the one by Hyenajoe is incredible!

I just picked up the model for mine yesterday, so at least I have it now

. Probably won't get to it for about a month, though, as I finish painting up my fantasy WoC army before beginning to build/paint my Dark Eldar. So I am going to try to squeak it in right before the September 3rd deadline!

**WaaaaghLord**

I started painting something I could enter and then saw this competition, is it still acceptable for me to post it up, or are WIP mid-conversion shots a requirement?

**RiTides**

I'd say post it up no matter what

although if people can, it'd make sense to take a pre-primer shot if possible.

**Panic**

yeah,
guys sorry i've not commented much, I've been uber busy with work, a wedding and getting drunk...

there is Lots of great stuff here so far and in the pimp my wizard thread.

Also It's never too late to join.

I've made a single evenings progress on my entry.
Not enough to show you guys anything yet though.
Hopefully I'll have a photo up later this week.

Panic.

**Hyenajoe**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Hyenajoe wrote:Here's my contribution: Ulysseus Lotos, Heretek and Magos of the Dark Mechanicus

That's my fav so far.

Where is the axe from?

The axe is a 2nd edition CSM power axe filed to look a little more mechanicus.

Thank you all for your comments. Do you guys think I should go for cables and tubes to improve it? Or should I avoid to end with something messy and go for an easier symbolic work?

@Santobell: I really like your job, it's original and the realisation is very good!

**notprop**

So here's my current WIP pictures.

It has developed somewhat from my original plan (which was to be a homage to the Chainsaw Wizard miniature form the late 80's) to an Imperial Priest dishing out rightious fury on Xenos and heretics alike with a big fething sword.

Positioning and basic structure is all done and I am starting to fill out the limbs; head and cloak to follow. The evisorator is huge (even after cutting it down!), never been a fan of GWs insistance on big gunz and swordz but I am quite liking where this was heading, we'll see if it works.

Inspired by others I also offer my own hackneyed peice of background fluff.

Spoiler:

Luther laughed, for so long he had bemoaned his decision to retire from the guard to this desolate rock, now there was a call to arms he was shaking like a green cadet. After nearly 30 years, naye lucky years on the front line he had longed for peaceful solitude to contemplate the gifts of the God-Emperor and to minister his word to those that needed it.

When the Lord-General had disbanded the Urson 325th Headsmen he had wept tears of joy to be given to opportunity to settle Leninor IV. Seeking a quite life he had found himself amongst the miners in the Zaychev steppes about as far away from civilisation as it was possible to be.

He sat there cleaning his old service pistol and he wished he wasn’t so isolated now. The instant things begun the townspeople and the miners sought his council. Initially he thought that it was right and good that they had done this, who would be better placed than a priest of Him-on-Earth to guide the people in troubled times. But that was when it started, no one had missed the odd servitor that went missing in the tunnels but when miners started seeing walking corpses, the old temple filled.

Now they no longer came for just comforting words and prayer; no they now sought a leader to investigate "the cursed" as the scared townsfolk would call these happenings. With no imediate outside assistance the local magister had lead the delegation, “who better to lead than a veteran guard champion, a Headsman no less” he had said ignoring his own responsibility.

He slammed the charge pack home. Luther laughed again, in retrospect maybe he had put a little to much emphasis in his sermons about the need for the people to fight the good fight, the war stories had caught their imagination but now it was dragging him away from the peace he cherished.

He looked at the Urson made reliquary on the alter. It was six feet long and filled only with death.

He walked over, sighed and then opened it. The smell of blessed oil filled his nostrils, he chanted the ritual of activation and hefted the sword from its resting place. Even with his augmented arm it was difficult to lift it to eye level. He took in the sight of it. Seven years since he had last held it, it had lost none of its air of danger or lustre.

He touched the second covert on the hafts Aquila. There was a low hum, then the suspensor kicked-in and the sword immediately balanced in his hand, its weight dissipating.

A sweep of the blade about his head and then he held the sword to his face and whispered another prayer, then he thumbed the stud on the grip. The sword burst into life, an azure glow enveloped the blade and the teethed edge sped up until it dissolved out of sight.

He joined the gathered party. “Come Magister; let us see what these metal skeletons are all about”

Luther laughed to himself, he would know peace again soon enough but first the sword told him there must be death.

**Scarper**

Awesome awesome awesome, notprop! I'm really intrigued as to see where you go with this - at the moment, I would say that his right arm is perhaps a little long, but it's always hard to guage proportion on a wire skeleton. Are you going to be using the original necro head? He looks ace

**notprop**

Thanks!

That arm does look a little freaky, but looks okay enough in person.

I decided to use as much of the original as possible and this included the right arm, but it was a bit too thin to drill too much into so has meant retaing some of the arm too. Should be okay whan the cloak is filled back in.

I plan to reuse the head as well but the curved spine and neck make placement difficult so we will see.

**Yggdrasil**

Hey notprop, that's a nice Priest you're going to have!!! I like the idea very much, even more so since I had 'planned' to use the Necromancer model, but couldn't find any way to convert it properly...

So congratulations to you! It's going to be awesome!

I think I've made enough progress to show it here... though I still ain't sure about the "back" part of my Inquisitor...

For now, let's say it's going to be like this :

I don't know why, but I am seeing that model as a "she"... Would it seem weird to you?

**Obsidian Raven**

Wow you guys are amazing. Im a brand new player, i don't feel mine would be up to the level of some of these conversions

I have an idea... but wow... its so basic compared to you guys...

Still, not gonna throw in the towel

that never gets you anywhere in life.

My plan is a slaaneshi chosen (to lead my chosen squad) out of the tzeentch sorcerrer. He is on his way to me now. hes getting released on the 31st, so ill likely get it on the 4th, then get right to converting.

My favorite so far has to be between hyenajoe's and Santobell's

**Yggdrasil**

@ Obsidian Raven : Don't worry mate, the "new" hobbyists often come with plenty of good ideas, that the "grizzled veteran" ones, wouldn't even think of!!! That's what's nice with creativity!!!
Plus, you're not betting your life here : that's just a friendly contest!

So don't ask yourself questions, just join in the fun!

**notprop**

Yggdrasil, thank you for the compliment. Nice to see more loyalists popping up, seeing this and other conversions of that chaos sorcerer are really making me like the model a whole lot more. [must resist buying more minis]

Can I ask what was wrong with the back? A picture perhaps?

To Obsidian Raven - that's the attitude. I look forward to your submission.

As for me, well I'm afraid that all of this attention has made Luther a bit self concious and in a fit of self-loathing has gone under the Mad-doc's knife for an arm-ectomy. Fear not Dakkanauts he will be back to slaying Xenos by morning with his now matching arms. The Emperor protects.

**STC_LogisEngine**

For the love of something strange and off-putting! SIGN ME UP SCOTTY!

I have a generic chaos sorcer that I bought on a whim and this a perfect way to do something worthwhile of it.

**Baiyuan**

@Notprop: Yours might become my favorite conversion of both threads so far (the other candidate is Scarper's, strange...both necromancer conversions). The pose is very dynamic and the fragile physique of the necromancer is being contrasted very nicely by the bulk of the weapon. I can't wait to see more of his grimdark madness.

**prototype_X**

@yggs where is the scroll from?

**Yggdrasil**

notprop wrote:Yggdrasil, thank you for the compliment. Nice to see more loyalists popping up, seeing this and other conversions of that chaos sorcerer are really making me like the model a whole lot more. [must resist buying more minis]

Can I ask what was wrong with the back? A picture perhaps?

To Obsidian Raven - that's the attitude. I look forward to your submission.

As for me, well I'm afraid that all of this attention has made Luther a bit self concious and in a fit of self-loathing has gone under the Mad-doc's knife for an arm-ectomy. Fear not Dakkanauts he will be back to slaying Xenos by morning with his now matching arms. The Emperor protects.

At first I had thought of giving him an ammo backpack with a wyrdling mutant, see pic below :

It was looking a bit weird, and a bit too comical for the original intent... So instead gave him a shotgun in a holster. Looks a bit more like a veteran, IMHO...

prototype_X wrote:@yggs where is the scroll from?

The scroll is taken from the Skaven Plague Monks kit... The arm is a bit "claw-y", but it doesn't show that much (and can be explained by a minor mutation

)
Lots of bits are interesting in every sprue, it's sometimes hard to think out of the box, that's why it takes me so long for 1 mini lol!!

Good luck to everyone!

**notprop**

So after a late night at the surgery a new arm has been grafted on and Luther is back to his choppy best [I think

]

Still much to do though.

Yggs, yeah I think you made the right decision on the backpack. It was just a little too busy and was drawing the eye from the Inquisitor.

**Yggdrasil**

Looks awesome, and really dynamic!! Great!

**Baiyuan**

Two small points of (hopefully constructive) criticism, Notprop:
The arm doesn't look anatomicly right. I know it's not the easiest thing to sculpt, but maybe you can find a workaround by adding armor or even better some augmentation, like a suspension brace for his right arm, that would also justify the size of the weapon to any doubter.
The second thing is the hair, it defies gravity. The strains of hair point the wrong direction. It's nitpicky, I know, it just caught my eye. Btw have you considered using a different head? I'm thinking of the empire flagellant heads right now, most prominently the ones with the blindfolded eyes/empty eyesockets.

Otherwise nice Job, I'm waiting for more.

**WaaaaghLord**

This is what I've been working on for the contest, it's a conversion of one of the new Tzeentch sorcerers, converted to be a Magus for my Genestealer cult (link to which is in my sig, shameless self promotion).
Sorry I haven't been able to post a modelling in progress shot, I only saw this log after I started painting!

**notprop**

Baiyuan wrote:Two small points of (hopefully constructive) criticism, Notprop:
The arm doesn't look anatomicly right. I know it's not the easiest thing to sculpt, but maybe you can find a workaround by adding armor or even better some augmentation, like a suspension brace for his right arm, that would also justify the size of the weapon to any doubter.
The second thing is the hair, it defies gravity. The strains of hair point the wrong direction. It's nitpicky, I know, it just caught my eye. Btw have you considered using a different head? I'm thinking of the empire flagellant heads right now, most prominently the ones with the blindfolded eyes/empty eyesockets.

Otherwise nice Job, I'm waiting for more.

Cheers, this is all fair comment.

The arm is just the first coat of GS. I intend to fill it out to a finish in a future stage along with the cloak.

You are definitely right about the head. I changed the stooped neck which wouldn't allow a head to look over the right shoulder for a more up right one. I plonked the necro head on for the benefit of the photo, bit its not stuck on. I want to use as much original miniature as possible so I think that I will probably use the necro head but he will deffo be getting a new doo, maybe a beard too?

**Baiyuan**

Great, consider me waiting for progress.

**Rabies**

Wow, so many great ideas and different themes. I meant to say it sooner but thanks to Baiyuan and PDH for the original concept and Panic for opening it up to the rest of us, I find myself constantly checking the 2 threads for updates.

I've done most of the green stuff on my scavvy boss now, it's a little rough but I haven't had as much time as I'd like (probably due to the thread lurking I mentioned

) but I'm happy enough. A few more touch-ups and then it's on to painting.

Sorry the pictures are a little dark, it came over cloudy as soon as the camera was charged. There's a bit of super-glue frosting and white paint where I flattened the GS on my computer desk and it wouldn't come off!

Fingers crossed paint should bring everything together.

**Yggdrasil**

Hey, like the mutant Scavvy!!! Looks creepy & twisted, I like it! Special kudos for the gasmask and the stitches in the cloth...

**Baiyuan**

Rabies wrote:Wow, so many great ideas and different themes. I meant to say it sooner but thanks to Baiyuan and PDH for the original concept and Panic for opening it up to the rest of us, I find myself constantly checking the 2 threads for updates.

Oh, you're more than welcome! The idea turned out even better than Peter and I originally imagined, thanks to all the creative minds taking part in the realization of it. There will be an insane amount of miniature goodness before this is over!

Your conversion is very cool, close to the original but with lots of great details to set it apart.

**GiraffeX**

I failed on the GS work on mine to re-do part of the robes I cut away.

It's now sitting on my paintng area half painted with a big chunk missing where I pulled off the GS in disgust lol

**DarkStarSabre**

And I'm stuck unable to do anything much until I buy some more primer on payday.

Oh woe!

But wonderful progress so far. I think we've managed to cover all the extremes between the two threads.

Inquisitors, Priests, Chaos Marines, Daemons, Ad Mech, Tau, Vespid, Genestealer Hybrids and Eldar!

**Baiyuan**

And I haven't even revealed what mine is going to be, none of the mentioned to be honest...