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Today my 3 Defiler Box Sets arrived and after the initial excitement wore off and I resumed regular breathing I spent about 3 hours clipping pieces off sprues and blue tacking together ideas for my three defilers! I have Plague Marine troops, a Tzeentch lord (which you can check out in my other thread) and am planning on adding some khornate terminators and land raider, although I MIGHT change that to be 3 khornate dreadnaughts. As such I decided that each defiler should be dedicated to one god. I first made the spider as a tribute to Nurgle, I think it's going to look good when I actually start adding on all the Nurgle details! Second was a Snake, which I thought is be-fitting to Tzeentch and I haven't actually seen any one convert a defiler in to a snake before! After the tests I came up with the idea shown below. Keeping in mind that I have yet to cut any pieces or add any detail (for fear of changing my mind) I think that it looks GREAT! The finished project should come together awesomely! Finally, and less enthusiastically, I made the khornate defiler. I am not so happy with this one, it is an over-done conversion, and will still be difficult to pull off successfully! I was thinking perhaps a Scorpion might be better, but once again over done and difficult to do make it an unattractive prospect! I have only ever converted one vehicle (a simple rhino conversion) and a Hive Tyrant (really easy to do since Nids are so versatile) so my experience with Large Scale Conversions is not great. That said I am open to any C&C since I want my $200 worth of sexy mini's to look the best they can!

All three lined up:

The Nurgle "Spider":


The Tzeentch "Snake":


The Khorne "Crab??":



Also keep in mind all weapons (including the arms on the "Crab") will be magnetized for easy removal/changing. Also all top parts (ie. the driver or hatch, or the "Heads" that I have not attached) will be magnetized for interchangeability. Also on a side not if any one has seen the chaos driver thats given on the chaos defiler 'Bits' sprue he has a handle for the heavy bolter that looks like he's holding a game controller. I plan to use some green stuff and fine painting skills to convert this to an xbox controller to add some 'spice' to army, I think all my opponents will fill extra burnt when they are blown to pieces by little guy holding a controller rofl!

Hmm... The Serpent shape is more Slaanesh than Tzeentch, A Bipedal Defiler would be more Tzeentchian IMO (and cooler!)

I like the look of what you have started. The crab looks good, I think the problem I have with it is that the claws are not exaggerated enough. With some GS, you could make a nice shaped claw that could look really wicked. Loads of spikes, and maybe a couple of impaled SM body parts stuck to it. I think that you could make it look really good. Scorpions have been done enough. Just my .02

I love the snake man.

ixlar wrote:I like the look of what you have started. The crab looks good, I think the problem I have with it is that the claws are not exaggerated enough. With some GS, you could make a nice shaped claw that could look really wicked. Loads of spikes, and maybe a couple of impaled SM body parts stuck to it. I think that you could make it look really good. Scorpions have been done enough. Just my .02

Huge claws? SM on spikes? Now that's what I call Khornate.

Just do as ixlar said and everything should go well with it

wow, i dont think ive seen anyone do a snake defiler before... cool!

can we get some 360 shots of it?

Since Tzeentch is all about deception and scheming, and the snake is symbolic of deception and scheming I thought it fits it nicely!

Ok so the crab is staying, just add heaps of spikes and make the claws as HUGE as possible!

These are still a WIP there will be many more shots to come, the more work I do on them the better shots I'll take, including a 360 shot lol

Thanks all for the C&C!

Maybe you should blog the conversion. Could be cool to see.

Blog... it... what do you mean? Can't I just have a topic running with picture updates? I plan to have about 4 topics, one for each project, and then a 5th topic with the finished army

I was suggesting putting the conversion thread here.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/forums/show/56.page

The P&M Blog forum.

Oh cool! TY I some how managed to miss that area!

I will send a PM and get this, and the others, moved there, once they have a bit more too them