The Brave's madness: oldhammer, kitbash, toys and conversions

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**Viktor von Domm**

thx mate!

**The Brave**

This is a classic. A Monsters in my Pocket toy, with a couple of bits to add some personality and to cover some little damage. It reminds me a little the Heroquest ogres.

**Boss Salvage**

The Brave wrote:
This is a classic. A Monsters in my Pocket toy ...

Awesome! I've never even thought of painting up MIMP monsters, let alone converting them. Very smart, and great result.

**Camkierhi**

He looks fantastic bud.

**IGtR=**

Fantastic work as ever, and such creative choices of components!

**The Brave**

Well, all good things end and Monday I'm back to work.

At least I found some time to make minis.

An empire soldier and a repurposed heroclix with some touch ups.

Also some wip toybashes.

**Wirecat**

Nice and joyful, for a goblin.

Very good job on these! Please continue and do not let the work to gnaw on good things in life!

**Da Boss**

Monsters in My Pocket as minis is inspired. I loved those things as a kid, them and boglins and mini-boglins.

**The Brave**

Last Sunday I found that Warhammer has a new magazine called Warhammer Conquest. It is a pleasant surprise, my introduction to the hobby was a similar magazine 20+ years ago about Warhammer Fantasy battle who made the bulk of my old orc army. I hope this magazine will introduce some youngsters to the hobby too.

The first issue gives you 3 colors, 3 miniatures and a (very cheap) brush for 2€. It's a good price and I got 2.

Mostly for the colors, because I absolutely despise Warhammer 40k.

It's not the first time I rant so please take a seat.

I have a big problem with Games Workshop, they love their grimdark universes. When I started the hobby Warhammer lore was a lot more generic. Expecially Warhammer Fantasy. This should be a bad think, but on the other hand it was a lot less grim. You had your badass miniatures but also some goofy ones, orc and goblin were a lot of fun. They miniatures were more expressive and show emotions. Maybe because they were badly sculpted, but some soldiers were afraid, some utterly confused and some bored.

Now everyone is angry. We lost the fun.

I also don't like the space marine design, they are too bulky. And I hate all the fluff about the emperor, holy war, yadda yadda yadda.

So you can imagine my joy about the spacemarinifaction of Warhammer fantasy.

Sigmar.

Oh boy, GW, I know you need something iconic for the fantasy and the space marine is you most known design. But the sigmar soldiers are ugly, expecially the head.

And again with the holy war theme. People cannot simply kill each other for land, resources and food (and fun), it always should be Good VS Evil. And the difference is paper thin when they all are angry and bulky.

Well, enough rant.

The new space marine are actually pretty good. They fit perfectly together even without glue. They are a head bigger of the old ones and a lot more proportionated, and the actual head is better, it looks like an helmet instead of an angry face.

The story about their creation is nonsense in the actual lore, but I don't care about the lore.

I got doubles, so here some conversions, plus one more guy.

P. S. I don't hate science fiction, it is my favorite genre, but I think the future should be bright. So more Star Trek and less Starship Troopers. You can make your distopic fascist empire army, but you need to go over the top.

Yes, it is space Jesus.

**Da Boss**

I agree with you on the background for the game gradually jumping the shark. I think it is a function of the original creatives leaving and the newer stuff being done by fans who love the original but perhaps some specific aspects more than others, and so push the background in an extreme direction.

**The Brave**

Demon prince of gnoll, lord of famine and decay, badass bag guy, Invizimals toy with a lot of bits.

**The Brave**

The begin of a new kill team?

**gobert**

Nice start on the kill team, great inspiration choice! I’ve been using my kids stories for ideas and Lego Space Marines are a genius idea!

**StormX**

Nice!, they look very cool.

**The Brave**

He's a space alien lizard guy!

Ben10 toy with some bits glued on and a quick paint job.

I love the tiny legs.

**Briancj**

Nice use of the smoke launcher!

**Meer_Cat**

Ditto- in the finished piece it looks a bit of custom kit- it wasn't until I saw it in your WIP photos that I did a double take and realize what it was!

**The Brave**

So it's a smoke launcher... Good to know

**Briancj**

The Brave wrote:
So it's a smoke launcher... Good to know

To be specific, because it amuses me you use bits without knowing what they are (naturally!), it is an Imperial Guard smoke launcher from the 90's/early 2000's before GW revamped the IG line of vehicle kits.

**IGtR=**

Briancj wrote:
The Brave wrote:
So it's a smoke launcher... Good to know

To be specific, because it amuses me you use bits without knowing what they are (naturally!), it is an Imperial Guard smoke launcher from the 90's/early 2000's before GW revamped the IG line of vehicle kits.

I think this is a really interesting example of freeing yourself from constraints when looking at conversion materials. It is odd that I don't look at random gubbinz from household appliances or other gak that I have lying around as being where they come from, but I have that approach to bitz (i.e. this is for a tank as it is a smoke launcher). This thread is a mind-bending trip of inspiration because so many disparate things are used for so many different purposes and it all works.

Thanks for sharing as ever!

**The Brave**

Ignorance is a bliss

Another couple conversion.

The bird lady has 2 right legs.

**The Brave**

A simple head swap of a Pegleg Pete toy.

**gobert**

Nice Kinder robot, did you get to eat the chocolate?

**The Brave**

One of the tasteless chocolate I ever tried.

**Briancj**

I love the robot! So adorable! So killy!

**The Brave**

IGtR= wrote:
Briancj wrote:
The Brave wrote:
So it's a smoke launcher... Good to know

To be specific, because it amuses me you use bits without knowing what they are (naturally!), it is an Imperial Guard smoke launcher from the 90's/early 2000's before GW revamped the IG line of vehicle kits.

I think this is a really interesting example of freeing yourself from constraints when looking at conversion materials. It is odd that I don't look at random gubbinz from household appliances or other gak that I have lying around as being where they come from, but I have that approach to bitz (i.e. this is for a tank as it is a smoke launcher). This thread is a mind-bending trip of inspiration because so many disparate things are used for so many different purposes and it all works.

Thanks for sharing as ever!

I think you'll love this.

**The Brave**

One more.

**The Brave**

Around 50% done.

**Briancj**

Gettin' there, keep at it!

--B

**The Brave**

Well, this was a project.
They are the primaris I got with the first issue of Warhammer Conquest magazine.
In a previous post I explained I don't like Warhammer 40k so much, but these are fine miniatures, you can actually assemble them without glue.

I'm not used to modern-looking toy soldiers, so I hope the armor looks right.

The color scheme is inspired by Ice Planet 2002 Lego sets.