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Rouge, you got a link you could give me?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/372082.page

i know it says nurgle, but trust me some amazing IG are in there

Update
Finished with my jet, it looks like crap, once again as an excuse it was my first time with green stuff and plastic card.


I still gotta plastic card that gap behind the pilot seat.

While hobby sawing the front off my jet I noticed just how lopsided my jet was, so I had to GS the bottom of it to look even.

One thing I was able to do was match up the wings really well, I have my main rods running right through the body of the jet into each wing, that makes the wings detachable easily.
Well it wasn't as easy as I thought, I think I'll let my skills get a bit better before I give it another try.
I'm trying to think of ways to prefab knee pads for my infantry, I'm far to lazy to mold so much GS so I'm going to make a mold of some type.


my work table, you can see my infantry all planned out, I just need to wait for Anvil to make their guard compatable arms to carry their rifles.

My bit box, Its dang empty because I've just started hobbying.

There is nothing like the USMC and the Boondock Saints to encourage you! Aswell as my free comic book day trashbag lol.

I'm still waiting for arms that are able to hold the Anvil rifles. I think I might make a few APCs in the mean time.
I'm thinking of combineing a Chimera Mk2 conversion and sliping some Chapter House FAV wheels on it along with mounting a pred turret atop.
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?126013-%93DEATH%92S-HEAD%94-3rd-Krieg-Tank-Division-Titan-Hunter-Detachment/page19
Thats the Chimera Mk2 conversion tutorial.

i dont think it sucks, once you sand down the GS it should look fine

Thanks, I was pretty discouraged once I found out it was lopsided.

really the only thing i see (which is easily fixable) is that the left wing isnt as straight as the right, but again easily fixable

The fighter is a very cool conversion - very IG - the twin tail works really well. You could also try out the Thunderbolt templates by lackofabettername - very easy builds (though they look complicated) - they are a little small compared to the forgeworld versions (an inch or two either way), but I'd ignore that.

Any more to share?
Laney

Update.

My new UAV. I just orderd my conversion set from Chapter house studios so while I'm waiting for that I figured I'd dig around in my valkyrie box and raid it for left over bits.

Its un finished of course, but I think the frame has came along quite nicely, I just need to plastic card the body up, add some bits and it'll be finished.
I'm not sure howto add a cockpit thing, I know its a UAV but we can't have the entire thing be flat :/


Thats my source of inspiration, but I'm not as talented and I don't have the bits.

Btw, thanks laney, I like your work.

nice job, and an interesting use of bits, do you plan on adding the camera (black hemisphere with red dot) on the bottom for spying on your enemies?

Im not to sure what im going to use yet tbh, i do have a load of computer panels left still though.

Update!
I got my kit from chapter house the other day and I bought a chimera and here are my results.

I wanted to base this vehical into a Marine LAV-25

I turned the heavy stubber into the turret weapon.

The scale is perfect, I'm not going to post the fitting problems that the chapter house kit gave me. The kit itself was perfect no bubbles no warping.
I did have to shave the entire back paneling.

I gotta post in the swap shop that I'm willing to buy another tank hatch if someone has them.


I still gotta GS the fitting gaps and get another tank hatch but its pretty well done. A real easy conversion.

really nice work, and this conversion kit looks great with the rest of your boys

love the jet conversion!

I am tempted to get some of those chapter house kits, but I hate the rest of his stuff and his (being the companies) attitude. Nice to see that they fit good if I do jump for them!

If you do buy some make sure you have a dremel tool otherwise the kits will be a nightmare. Chapter house added a really blocky thick backing for the parts of the chimera to fit on but they dont fit where the blocks are so you gotta sand the gak out of them . I like the kit, just alot of sanding, I'll get a few more.

Love it! My Chimera has the same heavy bolter mount but I took the barrel from my heavy weapons team autocannon and mounted that on there.

The jet conversion is nice but the Chimera takes the cake. I never thought of replacing the turret gun with anything. It looks great. Im going to try it next time I make a guard army. Thanks for the inspiration.

Nice work. I like the little UAV, very cute

The new turret weapons looks really good too. If you need something a bit more substantial the Predator AC barrel is actually quite reasonably scaled compared to most GW stuff.

You know Flinty, I was thinking of just using a entire predator turrent and seeing how that works out, the cheapest I can find one though is $20, I might go for it anyways.
Thanks 40kFSU, Glad I can be an inspiration amugst suchs P&M gods here on dakka, its an honor
Lordofsins, thx for the idea, I'll try it out. I want a few caliber cannon variants of my LAVs so I'll give that a shot

sparkywtf wrote:love the jet conversion!

I am tempted to get some of those chapter house kits, but I hate the rest of his stuff and his (being the companies) attitude. Nice to see that they fit good if I do jump for them!

I have the same opinion, but that's neither here, nor there. That Chimera kit looks great, I might pick that up along with the SCAR-Lasguns.

I would of got some of the SCAR lasguns just for gaks and giggles but S&H put me like $1 over budget so I just got the kit. If you do by them though you will encounter the same problems I did when I was converting the Anvil rifles. Look at your Lasguns and notice what on them is out of place, the hands. They (GW) built the freggin left hands of the guardsmen into the damned rifle. Thats why I'm waiting for Anvil to make their IG arms to fit their rifles (which will be soon) I also didn't like the fact you couldn't get the SCAR w/GL without a drum mag attached.

Fantastic stuff. I especially like your jet. I will be keeping an eye out on this blog for sure.

Some very nice conversions going on here! I do a similar setup with my chimera transports. I like your name as well! Also very similar to my IG! Looking forward to more updates.

Just a quick update guys I bought my gun jeep bits and they should arrive some-what-ish-soon-er-ish and I'm looking forward to posting that bit of adventure. I also want to whore out Widdow-box from Ebay http://myworld.ebay.com/window-box/ He has dern good priceing and awsome service.
I did forget to buy my predator turret though dang it!

Barksdale, I Love you Commisar Lord duel wielding like that
He reminds me of a Really old Video game mod called The Specialists. BTW did you Green stuff his hand? http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/365369-.html?m=2

^isnt that a plastic hand??

Its definately a plastic hand. I think it is just clipped from an arm in the cadian infantry sprue.

Newabortion wrote:

I gotta post in the swap shop that I'm willing to buy another tank hatch if someone has them.


I still gotta GS the fitting gaps and get another tank hatch but its pretty well done. A real easy conversion.

The stubber looks sick in the turret. What will you counts as in game?

With regards to your tank hatch, if you want the bit check out Let the Dice Decide. I literally just bought up the last of the chimera bits (I need them too ) so its currently out of stock. Still, Rob does frequent restocks on everything, and carries a load of bits. Check out the hatches on other guard and marine vehicles as well! I highly recommend checking it out for all the bits your looking to use in the project.

If your looking for a quicker solution, check out one of endtransmission's projects.

Keep those pics coming!!

Great thread, as a Guard collector myself I will subscribe and watch with great interest.

Can I ask for the link for the UAV inspiration?

Thanks

TSD

thesupplydrop wrote:Great thread, as a Guard collector myself I will subscribe and watch with great interest.

Can I ask for the link for the UAV inspiration?

Thanks

TSD

Yeah here, sorry it took so long to reply. The guy who made it didn't make a tutorial and he only made one and he sold it to some guy on warseer if thats what you were looking for. (sadface)

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?280397-Tinner-s-Log-O-Big-Tanks/page4

Newabortion wrote:You know Flinty, I was thinking of just using a entire predator turrent and seeing how that works out, the cheapest I can find one though is $20, I might go for it anyways.

I think the chimera turret still looks good, especially with the swapped out main weapon. However I also think the predator turret looks allm kinds of awesome on the Chimera chassis, which is why all my Guard tanks have them (Many pics in my dakka gallery)

I was lucky enough to pick mine up when they sold the turret sprue for £5

Also for left hands you can trim off the lasgun quite easily and end up with an open hand. I did this so I could use the Hasslefree CAD guns on my Guard. I recommend a pin vice to help though.

Update! My package came in from Widdow games and Discount war store and 1 day later BAM

I still have yet to mount the rockets but I want to hold off until I decide how I want to mount the other weapons. I want to magnetize them somehow.

The box looks weird with the bedroll hanging down but trust me its impossible to take a picture of but I have the box and bedroll sitting on on of the cockpit steps. I used the grill to cover up the original spot for the steps so I'm useing the steps as a shelf, heh.

There is a shot of the shelf and how I mounted the back wheels. the sprue that was holding the front grill together worked perfect.
I know the front wheels look a bit bowed out but for a first try its not to shabby.
I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to seat a guardsmen in it though, I could just put a torso and head in there and pretend like they don't have space marine legs I guess.

@Flinty, I looked at my lasguns and thought about shaving the hands off and pretty much gak my pants thinking about the prospect. So I just ordered $10 worth of IG arms with open palms.
I also ordered more Anvil Industry rifles so more infantry updates to come soon!


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Update. I magnetized a model for the first time, Huzzah!


Way easier than I thought it was going to be.

Dude I am loving the gun jeep and am also a window-box ebay fan. That guys has it all. I think the SM legs in the jeep would be ok if you tried a Storm Trooper style crew. But I have no clue how to pull that off. Im sure you will figure out a win.