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The "Getting the most out of the new Stegadon kit if you're not a Lizardman player" Conversion Challenge!

The Adept's Forge, in conjunction with Dave Taylor Miniatures, is pleased to present the kick-off to what will hopefully be an ongoing series of cool idea-sharing and excitingly executed conversions.

All too often, there comes a great new plastic kit that you just can't help but want to put together. Perhaps, however, you're not into the army for which the kit has been released and you just can't bring yourself to build a one-off, never to be used again model. Enter the Conversion Challenge.

Over the next five to six weeks, a group of friends and verteran hobbyists will take on the challenge of converting the fantastic new Stegadon plastic kit into something they can more readily used in one of their existing armies. The rules are simple. Take (at least) one Stegadon kit, add heaping helpings of creativity and modeling talent, and create a masterpiece of conversion work that will be admired the world over (or perhaps just over the world wide web). Photos will be taken around the end of March and half will be posted on http://theadeptsforge.blogspot.com, while the other half will be posted on http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com. Polls will be set up for voting and the winner will receive bragging rights, and possibly a prize from the archives.

We'll be posting the names of the contestants shortly (all fantastic hobbyists and lots of well known vets!), so keep your eyes peeled for the mighty creations come late March!
Thanks for looking and we hope you will all come out to vote and comment!

Jeff Hall and Dave Taylor

new Stegadon plastic kit into something they can more readily used in one of their existing armies.

Fantastic. It's always fun to get ideas for integrating cool models into your armies.

I hope one of you guys plays Tau.

Doesnt that mean none lizardmen players still have to buy the stegadon just to have the materials to participate this ><

Sweet. I follow their blogs, wish I had the time to do one of my own.

Excellent! I'll be following this closely.

stonefox wrote:I hope one of you guys plays Tau.

Yeah it'll be interesting seeing it become either a Gnarloc or a roided up Krootox

You say five-six weeks, but when exactly is the closing date?

Yay Tau.

LunaHound wrote:
Doesnt that mean none lizardmen players still have to buy the stegadon just to have the materials to participate this ><

Not really a problem. Lizards are so cool, everyone is doing them.

Yeah, I'd be keen to know the finish date. I'd love to convert a stegadon to one of my current armies, but I can't really afford one, so I'll be watching this thread with baited breath.

Right now we are looking at the last day of March as the closing day of the contest.